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Cutting edge bands local, national and worldwide. Whether you’re looking to start your record collection or touch up the fringes, Nick Brunner leads you through two hours of Modern Music Discovery.

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LATEST SHOW | Saturday, June 25, 2022

To All the Mothers & the Sisters & the Wives & Friends

Blondie makes the Doors look good, a local extravaganza feat. Caregiver, Vasas & the kindness of neighborhood bartenders. Kevin Morby, Devin the Dude, Talking Heads - all your sanity & wits they will all vanish. I promise. It's just a matter of time.

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Saturday, June 18, 2022

A Perfect Game

300 weeks on the radio and THIS is all we have to show for it? Yeah! Foxtails Brigade are in town this weekend, there's new music from Sac's Igwe Aka, Denzel Curry, the Drive-By Truckers take us to a dive bar & just in time for Father's Day: Dad Bod.

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Saturday, June 11, 2022

Cruise Into Forever

Mixing it up this weekend for the sake of fun, funk and flavor. The Mattoid returns to bless us with a joyful new album. The mighty Jessica Bordreaux of Summer Cannibals has a new EP & we pay tribute to the ethereal Julee Cruise.

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Saturday, June 4, 2022

Scoot Yer Face Off

The usual unusual modern mix of music discovery this week includes the latest from Phoenix, Spiritualized, Jordana and Kevin Morby. Sacramento reps DEFEM and Mediocre Cafe + we go back to 1985 and the Purple Rain Tour with Prince and the Revolution!

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Saturday, May 28, 2022

...and I Bum Around

MAN is it nice to be back post-COVID. From random run ins to new tracks from Sharon Van Etten, Kevin Morby and !!! (covering R.E.M.?!?!) + a tribute to Andy "Fletch" Fletcher - it's an all new playlist of Modern Music Discovery. Click in.

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Saturday, May 21, 2022

Black + White, Red + Green

Nick is out with COVID, so while he plans a banger new show for next week, please enjoy this Batman-laden playlist from earlier in the spring. Local Tiny Deskers, new tracks by Jack White, Matiel, Father John Misty, Ibibio Sound Machine and more!

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Thursday, May 5, 2022

Watered Down

Tune in as Andrew Garcia attempts to carry water for Nick Brunner while he is away this week. This soggy, water themed episode of Hey, Listen! includes tracks from the like of Big Thief, illuminati hotties, Soccer Mommy, Modest Mouse and more!

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Saturday, April 30, 2022

C8H10N4O2

Catch new music from Arcade Fire and Ibibio Sound Machine. Local artists Citizen Snips new record & Camilla Covington gets us Caffinated. A few songs out of time by Father John Misty, Beck & Blondie - all on Internat'l Indie Bookstore Day! Click in!

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Saturday, April 23, 2022

Give Em The Slip

Sacramento is on display all over this weekend's playlist: DEFEM debuts its first ever full length! Harris Rudman and Nate Curry croon us day and night! Avivia le Fay & Jakhari Smith from their Tiny Desks alongside new Jack White, Calexico & Mattiel!

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Saturday, April 16, 2022

Black + White. Red + Green.

More music from local Tiny Desk contest entrants alongside new tracks by Jack White, Matiel, Father John Misty and Ibibio Sound Machine. Click in!

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  • 2022   
    • June   
      • To All the Mothers & the Sisters & the Wives & Friends
      • A Perfect Game
      • Cruise Into Forever
      • Scoot Yer Face Off
    • May   
      • ...and I Bum Around
      • Black + White, Red + Green
      • Watered Down
    • April   
      • C8H10N4O2
      • Give Em The Slip
      • Black + White. Red + Green.
      • SacTown Sound Machine
      • Lords of Local
    • March   
      • The Marvellous Ms. Marnie Stern
      • A Weekend Drive
      • Two Eighty Six
      • Funk Jail
    • February   
      • Playing in the Dark
      • Devil on the Davenport
      • Hoo Boy!
      • A Jaunt Through the Underworld!
    • January   
      • Good Time Grab Bag #1
      • Quinn-tessential
      • Tattooed Pre-Teen
      • (7)5 Years
  • 2021   
    • December   
      • (Even More of Some of) The Best of 2021
      • (Some of) The Best of 2021
      • The One Before the Holiday One
      • Night Sweats
      • Music For Speakers
    • November   
      • Autumnal Whimsy
      • Free Massage With Purchase
      • Fog Bank
      • reMemorize
    • October   
      • The Hey!-o-Ween Special
      • Show of Shows! (with Andrew Garcia)
      • SOUP!
      • Polly Jean Party Hat
      • Weirdos Gotta Stick Together
    • September   
      • Strong Indications
      • Time and Place
      • Mark It With An EX
      • Record Corrector
    • August   
      • Double Plus
      • Vibing
      • Still Living
      • Lords of Local
    • July   
      • The Collected Camilla
      • Love, Real Life and Roller Skates: Camilla Covington Discusses Their New EP
      • POP!
      • The Biz
      • Bicenquinquagenary! (+1)
    • June   
      • Shin-y, Shin-y, Ya
      • Freedom Day
      • Work It
      • Strikes Hard
      • I Am Strikes On Embracing Yourself
    • May   
      • Big, Daddy!
      • DiSKAgraphy!
      • Cartalk, Not *That* Car Talk
      • Flock of Superwolves
      • ...'preciate It
    • April   
      • TwoThirtyNine
      • Time and Place Pt. 2
      • The End of the Show
    • March   
      • Search Engine Optimized!
      • Six-y-Boiiiiii
      • A Year From Now
      • New 'Age
    • February   
      • Show Me Yours
      • Parks It Here
      • ValenTimes
      • SuperBowl LV-246
    • January   
      • Two Twenty Eight
      • Time and Place
      • One For Howard
      • Metal Fingers / Metal Face
      • Forward! To Your Past
  • 2020   
    • December   
      • The Best of It pt. 2
      • The Best of It pt.1
      • Overly Optimistic
      • FunderCats 2020
    • November   
      • Mind Reader
      • Thankin'
      • A Much Needed Check Up
      • From California...
    • October   
      • Heady Americans
      • You & Your Autumn Playlist
      • ...And I Must Scream
      • The Marvelous Ms. Marnie Stern
    • September   
      • Needs More Sault
      • Strength In Numbers
      • Ooooooh... Chalky!
    • August   
      • One Step Beyond
      • Colour Clash
      • Songs for the Scorched Earth
      • Warm, Weird, Woozy
      • An August Episode
    • July   
      • Streak Of Genius
      • Bicentennial, Man!
      • Mello Mordechai
    • June   
      • What's To Come
      • Phoenix Rising
      • Civil
    • May   
      • Socially Distant Saturday - Week 11 - Together
      • In Studio, Round 2
      • STAB!'d by John Ross
      • Not So Small
      • In The Cafe
    • April   
      • Socially Distant Saturday - Hearts of Oak
      • Sacramento, Italy
      • Socially Distant Saturday - Taking Stock(ton)
      • Socially Distant Saturday - Week 3 - The Thick of It
    • March   
      • HL Presents: A Local Artist Showcase
      • Sensing A Theme Here
      • Say The Magic Word
    • February   
      • A Flying Leap
      • Ye Gods!
      • Shauf'er
      • GONK!
      • Okay, Kaya … Kaya, Okay
    • January   
      • Morales, Mortal Man
      • Beliefable
      • Plague Sweats
      • The Year Ender
  • 2019   
    • December   
      • 25 Year Trail
      • Bush League
      • Enormous
      • Form and Fund Drive
    • November   
      • 2019-11-30 - HL169 - (REB HL125) Hunted
      • Hyperspace!
      • Greatest Grandpa
      • One Sixty Six
      • Autumn Leaves
    • October   
      • The Not So Halloween Show
      • Let's Get At Er
      • A New One
      • Long Song Singalong
    • September   
      • Support System
      • Golden Country Western Sing Em Ups
      • Living Life
      • Irvin Outfitter
    • August   
      • Moody Motorscooter
      • STRQ x Camilla In-Studio
      • Stay Silver...
      • One Fifty Two
    • July   
      • Fun... Incorporated!
      • Die Trying
      • The Lonliest Gigalo
      • Julius
    • June   
      • Hot Stuff Vol. 4
      • Hot Stuff Vol. 3
      • Hot Stuff Vol 2
      • Hot Stuff Vol. 1
    • May   
      • Balm
      • One Four Oh
      • Bring on the Budos
    • April   
      • OVER THE LINE!
      • The 420 Episode
      • This is POOR
      • Mighty Member Public Radio
    • March   
      • The Devil, You Say??
      • Like a House on Water
    • February   
      • Save Your Confections
      • Flyin, Flyin, Flyin
      • Guh-LIP-uh-Lee
      • Gillespie Gets Busy
    • January   
      • Hunted
      • Tuber Tosser
      • Lodged
      • One Twenty Two
  • 2018   
    • December   
      • A New One
      • Hey, Listen! on Holidays
      • The X in Christmas
      • Easy Listening Headbangers
      • Bone-uh FEE-days
    • November   
      • It's Glandular
      • Paper, Money
      • More Like YESvember...am I...amiright?
    • October   
      • Hallows
      • Look At The Rabbits
      • Long Song Singalong
      • Hey, Listener! Support It!
    • September   
      • Gallo's Humor
      • Son of Red EX!
      • In The Name of Fun!
      • Bob and Sheila
      • New Digs
    • August   
      • A Compilation Companion
      • What Remains In Light
      • The Travels of Topograf
      • Topografic Content
      • Centurian
    • July   
      • This is POOR
      • RICH Rewards
      • Sans Titre
      • In Summary, Let's Get Summer-y
      • Heated
    • June   
      • ¡Oye! Escucha!
      • High Country
      • Post-Party Progression
      • Evil Seagull
      • One Bad Bird
      • Really Though, You Can Tell Me
    • May   
      • Heavy Rotation
      • Easy Listeneing Headbangers
      • Morales: Mortal Man
      • ...is #1
    • April   
      • So So So SO So Much
      • Listening In Cursive
      • Frances HEY!
      • Big List, Tiny Desk
      • Post-Throat Rock
    • March   
      • In-Studio A Go-Go!
      • Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
      • So This Is Fund Drive
      • High Country
      • Huh. Forgot to Title This One
    • February   
      • ...And I Must Scream
      • Behold! A Screature Comes...
      • Golden Country Western Prairie Sing Em Ups
      • Ready, Aim, Fire Keith!
    • January   
      • BruTang!
      • Consarnit!
      • Heart Attack-ak-ak-ak-ak-ak-ak-ak
      • Años
  • 2017   
    • December   
      • Big Ol Jams
      • Yes We Kondabolu
      • Paralyzed by Hope
    • November   
      • High Country
      • You Know, Like Those Horrible Cookies
      • Just Like HEAVN
    • October   
      • So The Bartender Says to the Horse...
      • Dry Clean Exorcism
      • Heartbreaker
    • September   
      • The Beatles in Beirut
      • Existential Rigor!
      • Mr. Braindead
      • Hey, Listener Supported!
    • August   
      • Better Red Than Dead
      • Get Fiftyyyyyyy
      • The One Within
      • Bru Are You?
    • July   
      • Magic Michael Johnson
      • So So So So So Much
      • The Creationist
      • The "Whitman's Sampler" Episode - 2007-2017
      • In-Studio A Go-Go!
    • June   
      • Heated
      • Weekend At Mort's
      • Lordy, Lordy
      • No Vowels Required
      • Of Course We CAN
    • May   
      • Like Coffee & Cherry Pie
      • Peak Volume
      • Upsides & Downs
      • Gorillaz in High Castlez
      • Pro-Crastination!
    • April   
      • Deep Deep Deep State
      • Honored Honoree
      • Cobain Cowboy
      • Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
      • 29 Golden Fund Drive Greats
    • March   
      • SPOON!
      • Magnitude
      • A Woman's Place
      • Ye Gods...
    • February   
      • Jeans Genies
      • Heroes
      • ...is In Pursuit
      • Golden Country Western Prairie Sing Em Ups
    • January   
      • Hot Newness
      • Electrical Resistance
      • Take A Chance on James
      • On A Leash
  • 2016   
    • December   
      • On 2016
      • On Holidays
      • Just Relax!
      • Get On Up!
      • Our Own Spanish Soap Opera
    • November   
      • Hail to the King Woman
      • Home (for Sharon Jones)
      • Hail, Hail!
      • Get Bigger
      • Hey, HEY!!
    • October   
      • A Case To Be Made
      • Hallows
      • Morrissey Ate All The Podcast
      • Destroy Boys On Insight
      • Kiefer's Catharsis & Hood's Happiness
      • ...is In Pursuit
      • A Compilation Companion
    • September   
      • ...is Worth It
      • Tom Brosseau Live on Insight
      • The Guest List - Robert Barry's Talking Head
      • ...is #1

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