Scratching The Surface News Today

The long-serving and popular Jazz Journal columnist and reviewer Steve Voce died in Liverpool this week, aged 89

Singer and guitarist Tony McPhee, who fronted British blues and rock group the Groundhogs across six decades, has died at age 79.

UK blues rock legends The Groundhogs released their debut album Scratching The Surface in late 1968, but they'd already been plying their trade for over half a decade.     Formed originally as pop act The Dollar Bills in in 1962, the band toughen up their sound the following year and change their name, inspired by John Lee Hooker's 1951 song Ground Hog Blues. The same year, on October 21, Hooker plays his first UK show at the America...

5:39 Pete speaks with KUAFs Pluto Manager, Dr. Caitlin Ahrens with NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center. For the past three years, KUAFs Pluto Manager has unveiled the mysteries and wonders of our Solar System each Friday during Science Friday at 2:04pm on 91.3fm. Shes now moved on from the Planetary Sciences Department at the University of Arkansas and is a postdoctoral fellow at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Pete talks to Caitlin about switching her emphasis from Pluto to the M...