Rodrigo y Gabriela’s first release of the new decade, the JAZZ EP further includes distinctive covers of Snarky Puppy’s “Lingus” and Kamasi Washington’s “Street Fighter Mas,” the latter of which is available now at all DSPs and streaming services; a celestial performance video is streaming now at YouTube. KCRW s Morning Becomes Eclectic posted the song, naming it as “Today’s Top Tune,” writing, “Guitar virtuosos Rodrigo y Gabriela have…recreated the LA jazz maestro’s ‘Street Fighter Mas’ with just two guitars. It may sound stripped down, but we don’t lose any of the song’s intricacies.”
Former KCRW programmer
Cerise Castle is simply the latest Black public radio programmer to experience the ingrained “whitecentric” mindset in much of public radio.
NPR, MPR, KPPC, and KUSC (not one Black programmer EVER), (and yes Pacifica Radio) is riddled with subtle and not so subtle racist “microagressions” or put less delicately blatant racist acts, attitudes and actions from top to bottom against African-American programmers.
“I’ve worked in and done programming in public radio–Pacifica, NPR, MPR, and other public radio outlets for decades and first hand I have seen, experienced, and been a victim, even target, of countless racially skewed attitudes and acts,” says Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari and Hutchinson Report publisher,” This racial ‘whitecentric’ mindset is carried out under the cover of public radio somehow being more liberal and racially forward thinking than mainstream commercial media. This is a blatant self-serv
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By: Andy Gensler
(Larry Hirshowitz for KCRW)
Novena Carmel, a longtime Angeleno, club booker and musicians, just began as co-host of KCRW’s flagship morning music program Morning Becomes Eclectic.
For many Angelenos, radio is not just a casual listening experience, but a way of daily life, one that helps make the endless car times and now the homebound tedium far more bearable. KCRW, one of L.A.’s two NPR stations, is a treasure trove of talk, news and especially quality music programming. When Jason Bentley, host of the station’s flagship morning program “Morning Becomes Eclectic,” stepped down in 2019 after a decade it was unclear who would fill the void. Anne Litt, the station’s beloved Program Director of Music stepped in and ably got us through the past year. Then, finally, on Feb. 2, for the first time in the show’s history, two co-hosts hit the air: lauded longtime KCRW DJ Anthony Valadez and Novena Carmel, a re
By: Andy Gensler
(Larry Hirshowitz for KCRW)
Novena Carmel, a longtime Angeleno, club booker and musicians, just began as co-host of KCRW’s flagship morning music program Morning Becomes Eclectic.
For many Angelenos, radio is not just a casual listening experience, but a way of daily life, one that helps make the endless car times and now the homebound tedium far more bearable. KCRW, one of L.A.’s two NPR stations, is a treasure trove of talk, news and especially quality music programming. When Jason Bentley, host of the station’s flagship morning program “Morning Becomes Eclectic,” stepped down in 2019 after a decade it was unclear who would fill the void. Anne Litt, the station’s beloved Program Director of Music stepped in and ably got us through the past year. Then, finally, on Feb. 2, for the first time in the show’s history, two co-hosts hit the air: lauded longtime KCRW DJ Anthony Valadez and Novena Carmel, a re