Ascent Radio, Chico, CA (2025)

12/19/2025

Midwinter. ❄️✨

The darkness nestles us. 🌙

A fire for warmth. 🔥

A candle for the ancestors. 🕯️

A pot of tea for cleansing. 🫖

The bows of the evergreens as reminders: life and abundance are ever present. Persistent. Steady. 🌲

As the solar new year turns over this Solstice, may you cozy into the shortest day(s) of the year, and the longest night(s), embracing the stillness, the reflection and renewal that this sacred season offers. 🙏

Whatever the rest of the holiday season holds for you, may this be a moment of stillness, contemplation, gratitude, release and receiving of all that is to come. 💗

Because the new dawn is upon us.

We are crossing the threshold.

Laying to rest what has been.

And embracing all that will be as the light returns to us. ☀️

May our Wintertide playlist be a gift to you, a collection of wintery chill and moody vibes to accompany your reflection and celebration of all that has been, and all that will be. ☃️🕯️🪵

May the darkness bring a quiet still to your soul. 🌙

And the return of light be a guide to your spirit. ✨

To tune in with us, download the FREE Ascent Radio App 📱 (available for both Apple and Android), our Alexa skill or Google action, or stream via our website! 💻 (link in bio)

Ascent Radio is: Music for a Better World. 💜🌎🕊️🌈✊🇵🇸🍉

📸 P/C:

Annie Spratt (via Unsplash)

11/28/2025

Happy Native American Heritage Day, friends! 🪶🧡🌾🦅🌻🌎

To celebrate and honor the beautiful voices, stories, wisdom and culture of indigenous peoples today, both ancient and contemporary, we’re featuring tunes by brilliant native artists, front-and-center, all day long! 🫶

Native American Heritage Day is about setting the record straight. Celebrating and honoring the original Americans.

May we ALL join hands in the pursuit of truth-telling and seeking justice, alongside our fellow Native peoples, in reverence, awe and profound appreciation of their beauty, power and resilience in the face of incomparable injustice, violence, and oppression.

To tune in with us download the FREE Ascent Radio app 📱 (available in both the Apple and GooglePlay stores), our Alexa skill or Google command, or stream via our website (link in bio)! 💻

is: Music for a Better World. 💜🌈✊🇵🇸🍉

📸 P/C: Jamie Handley via Unsplash

11/27/2025

Our tables are a reflection of the kind of world we want to live in. 💜🌎🕊️

As you gather this week,
If you gather this week,

May your tables be
Sanctuaries of
Radical safety,
Inclusion and
Welcome. 💞

May your tables be
Rooted in truth-telling.
Dispelling colonial propaganda.
Honoring the indigenous peoples of our lands. 🧡🪶

May your tables be
Havens of gratitude.
For harvest, the
Bountiful provision of Mother Earth.
For the goodness of life. 🙏

May your tables be a
Refuge of joy and celebration.
Laughter, camaraderie, and
Love. ☺️

May they be a place of
Justice,
Mercy, and
Resolve.

Resolve to continue in the work of creating a world together that is
More tables, and
Less walls.
Less exclusion.
Less judgment.
Less bigotry,
Violence,
And war.

May your table(s) honor our
Sacred,
American Indigenous People(s), 🧡🪶
Elevating and centering their
Lives, stories, and a
Commitment to stand with and for
Our fellow Native persons, as well as with
All other oppressed,
Unseen and
Marginalized peoples
Throughout the world, in their
Sufferings and struggle, taking up
Their cause, their
Fight(s) for freedom,
Justice, and
Equality, holding up
Especially those suffering and
Terrorized in zones of
Conflict,
Colonization, and
Humanitarian crisis.

Shalom/Salam to all. 🙏

And Happy Thanksgiving.

To listen along to our 🦃 Tables playlist, a mix of Indigenous artists, gratitude, love... and food, on Thanksgiving - followed by our 🧡🪶 Native American Heritage Day playlist on Friday, Nov. 28th! - and to kick off the winter and holidays with us as we begin sprinkling in our Let’s Be Honest playlist (while we wrap up November and Native American Heritage Month!), download the FREE Ascent Radio App 📱 (available for both Apple and Android), our Alexa skill or Google action, or stream via our website! 💻 (link in bio)

AscentRadio is: Music for a Better World. 💜🌎🕊️🌈✊🇵🇸🍉

📸P/C:

🍽️ Patrick Fore via Unsplash

🧡🪶 Jamie Handley via Unsplash

🕯️❄️ Eysau Etsub via Unsplash

🧡🪶 Susan Wilkinson via Unsplash

💜📻 Ross Sneddon via Unsplash

11/20/2025

We honor the lives of our beautiful TRANS 🩵🩷🤍 family who have been lost to the violence of transphopia. 💞

anthems by and for our beloved Trans community are featured front and center today, alongside cuts from our Native American Heritage Month playlist. 🧡🪶

Special shout out and thank you once again to for his gorgeous Survival Songs, an album dedicated to the care and embrace of our beloved Trans community. One of the most important records of the year, and one of our top albums of 2025. 🩵🩷🤍

To tune in with us, download the free Ascent Radio app 📱 (available in both the Apple and GooglePlay stores), our Alexa skill or Google command, or stream via our website. 💻 (link in bio)

AscentRadio is: Music for a Better World. 💜🌎🕊️🌈✊🇵🇸🍉

📸 P/Cs:

🩵🩷🤍 Karollyne Videira Hubert via Unsplash

🧡🪶 Susan Wilkinson via Unsplash

💜📻 Ross Sneddon via Unsplash

10/31/2025

🎃 Oh my gourd!!! 🎃 That’s right, friends, it’s BACK! Our annual “A Little-Stitious” Halloween playlist is on air NOW for all your creepy festivities!! 👻👹☠️😈👽 A quirky, slightly spooky and ghoulishly fun blend of Halloween and Halloween-adjacent tunes for your Halloween shenanigans!!

🎃 Have a safe and dreadful holiday, y’all! 💀

To party with us, 👻 download the FREE Ascent Radio app 📱 (available in both the Apple and GooglePlay stores), our Alexa skill or Google command, or stream via our website! 💻 (link in bio)

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Kenny Eliason via Unsplash

10/13/2025

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day, friends! 🪶🧡🌾🦅🌻🌎

To celebrate and honor the beautiful voices, stories, wisdom and culture of indigenous peoples today, both ancient and contemporary, we’re featuring tunes by brilliant native artists, front-and-center, all day long! 🫶

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is about setting the record straight.

May we ALL join hands in the pursuit of truth-telling and seeking justice, alongside our fellow Native peoples, in reverence, awe and profound appreciation of their beauty, power and resilience in the face of incomparable injustice, violence, and oppression.

To tune in with us download the FREE Ascent Radio app 📱 (available in both the Apple and GooglePlay stores), our Alexa skill or Google command, or stream via our website (link in bio)! 💻

is: Music for a Better World. 💜🌈✊🇵🇸🍉

📸 P/C: Jamie Handley via Unsplash - https://unsplash.com/photos/elaijFnaBMg

08/01/2025

FRIENDS!... The Ascent Radio Podcast is BACK! 🎙️💜🎧☺️

We are ECSTATIC to release this new project to you -

gets in on the fun with us to kick off season two! 🤩✨🏳️‍🌈💗

Here’s what’s up:

Matthew Paul Turner is living every day as his whole self. And the journey to get to that place is nothing short of extraordinary (and gorgeous!)

🎙️In this episode (AND in the accompanying feature on the blog! 💻) we sit down with the New York Time’s bestselling author and gay dad of three to talk 🌈 PRIDE, to share his coming out journey, and to weave his remarkable story together with the songs that have carried him through all of the healing and trauma into his own beautifully-gay liberation. ✨🏳️‍🌈

From his rebellious days sneaking Amy Grant CDs behind his fundamentalist parent’s backs, to transcendent experiences on the Jagged Little Pill tour and Lilith Fair, to the salvation of Brandi Carlile, Wilson Phillips and Taylor Swift in his coming out journey, follow Matthew through the songs that provided the safe and transformative spaces along his path to inner freedom, joy and flamboyance! 🥹💞

We are DELIGHTED to pick back up in our “conversations at the intersection of great music and social change” with Matthew - and SO grateful to him for joining us! 🙏💜🥹✨

🎧 To hear our interview with Matthew in its entirety - including clips of the music and his thoughts on all the songs we’ve highlighted from his story - look up the Ascent Radio Podcast 🎙️ wherever you get your podcasts, click the link 🔗 in our bio to locate the show on your preferred provider, or listen directly in the Ascent Radio app 📱 - available for free(!) in both the Apple and Google Play stores.

To read our feature story on Matthew on the Ascent Radio Blog, 💻 click the link 🔗 link in our bio as well, or click on the Blog tab in the Ascent Radio app!📱

Did Matthew share a song or story that connects with YOU? Let us know below!

AscentRadio is: Music for a Better World. 💜🌎🕊️🌈✊🇵🇸🍉

07/25/2025

Joy is resistance. ☺️💜✊

As we remain steady in the 🫶 movement, play and fun are essential for our souls! 🥏🏊‍♀️🛶🪁🚴‍♀️🏕️

We’ve gotta keep in view what we’re fighting for.

Drawing on the indelible ✊ Good Trouble spirit of the late, great Representative John Lewis, our ☀️ summer playlist is a reminder that oftentimes the creativity and mischief 🤓 required to move us forward in the fight are found in precious moments of play and relaxation. 🍦🩴👙🍹🕶️

With the perfect blend of 😎 lazy, hazy nostalgic summery tunes alongside songs to keep us focused on the work at hand, our ✊ Good Trouble 💜🏖️☀️ summer playlist will elevate your mind and renew your spirit as you soak up the sun and hold close what this life is all about. 🫶

To 🎧 vibe along with us, download our free app📱(available for both Apple and Android), our Alexa skill, our Google action, or stream via our website! (link in bio) 💻

Ascent Radio is: Music for a Better World. 💜🌈✊🇵🇸🍉

📸 P/C:

Jakob Owens via Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/man-sitting-on-chair-underwater-with-floating-bottles-qoFQxxuk3QY?

Clay Banks via Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/people-in-black-shirts-and-black-shorts-sitting-on-bench-during-daytime-qT7fZVbDcqE

07/04/2025

🗽 is (fundamentally) a celebration of ✊ and 🇺🇸

In the pursuit of freedom, justice, and equality for all, we have not yet arrived.

The American dream is yet to be realized - and is under threat in our perilous time.

And so we rise up. ✨💞

Joining hands and hearts, across time and space, with one another and with those who have gone before us and given their lives to the cause, and we

Stand together this Independence Day to declare:

✊🗽🇺🇸

To cruelty, greed, and bigotry, WE DISSENT

To authoritarian rule, WE DISSENT

To the illegal kidnapping and disappearing of our beloved immigrants, WE DISSENT

To military and state sanctioned violence, WE DISSENT

To fear-mongering, scapegoating, and manipulation, WE DISSENT

To the ongoing, illegal and blatant violations of our constitution, WE DISSENT

To oligarchy, WE DISSENT

To stripping the resources and support for our most vulnerable persons, WE DISSENT

To the ongoing funding and support of genocide, colonialism and war crimes, WE DISSENT

make our stand today, this Independence Day, as our forefathers and foremothers did before us. 🗽🇺🇸✊

And we keep the dream - and the hope - set before us. We can be free. And we shall be free. And we will continue the ongoing struggle for love, equality, and justice for all.

We are the soundtrack. 💞✨

To listen along 🎧 to our playlist as you reflect and move through this , download the Ascent Radio app 📱(available for free in both the Apple and Google Play stores), our Alexa skill, Google action, or stream via our website. 💻 (link in bio)

AscentRadio is: Music for a Better World. 💜🌎🕊️🌈✊🇵🇸🍉

06/19/2025

❤️💚🖤 “We gotta put our heads together
And see where we go from there
We gotta fight for what we believe in
‘Cause there’s something in the air

And it’s a brand new day
Brand new way
Brand new day
Brand new way...”

- “Brand New Day,” The Staples Singers, 1970

Happy , all! ❤️💚🖤

Our Freedom Day playlist is all Black artists, honoring and in celebration of , Black stories, Black culture, and Black joy, all day long.

Reflecting on the words of Dr. King,

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” - MLK, “I Have A Dream,” 1963

Juneteenth is a proclamation of freedom, joy and celebration as an act of protest and pride in the face of the ongoing powers of oppression still at work in our midst today.

Sometimes a party is our most powerful tool in the fight.

❤️💚🖤 Happy Juneteenth, everyone! ❤️💚🖤

May each of you embrace the spirit of the “Brand New Day” Mavis proclaims, and continue in the march toward freedom and equality for all!

Ascent Radio is: Music for a Better world.

To listen along to our Juneteenth playlist, download the free Ascent Radio app, available for both Apple and Android, our Alexa skill or Google action, or stream via our website! (link in bio)

06/14/2025

❌👑

We reject authoritarianism.

We stand for democracy.

In solidariy with all who are marching today - and all who are supporting in every other way they are able - we stand in defiance, and resistance. ✊

The power is the people. ✨

People have the power. 🙏

Our playlist goes out to all, in the spirit of protest. Whether you’re in the streets, or supporting in your own capacity, we’re spinning 24 hours of empowering anthems to carry you through the day. 🎵🎧

From across generations, Nina Simone to Janelle Monae, these rally cries are equal parts truth and hope: on the real about where we are, with the vision of the new world being born in our midst.

To tune in with us as we stand together, download the Ascent Radio app 📱(available for free in both the Apple and Google Play stores), our Alexa skill, Google action, or stream via our website! 💻 (link in bio)

AscentRadio is: Music for a Better World. 💜🌎🕊️🌈✊🇵🇸🍉

06/01/2025

🏳️‍🌈 HAPPY PRIDE!!! 🤩🌈✨

💜 Beloveds, you are adored. 🥰

As you are. ✨

All of you. 💫

Every gorgeous part. 🤗

We’re celebrating 🌈✨ALL OUR QUEERNESS, all month long. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤗💫

What’s YOUR favorite 🏳️‍🌈 PRIDE 🏳️‍⚧️ jam?! ✨🎧💃🏽🪩 Let us know below so we can get it in the mix! 👇

Let’s radio together. 💞✨

To vibe ✨🎶🌈👨‍🎤🎸👌 with us this month, download the FREE Ascent Radio app📱 (available for both Apple and Android), our Alexa skill or Google command, or stream via our website! 💻 (link in bio)

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