KBOO Community Radio

KBOO Community Radio KBOO airs on 90.7 FM Portland, 91.9 FM Hood River, & 104.3 FM Corvallis & online at kboo.fm & via the KBOO app for iPhone and Android. We're volunteer-powered.

We're community-centered. We're listener-supported, independent radio. KBOO is a community radio station that was founded in 1968. We strive to give those without a voice a voice. We are volunteer driven and member supported, nearly 500 volunteers help ensure that KBOO is on the air 24/7/365. Members contribute close to 90% of our annual budget each year.

11/19/2025

Karen James interviews students about a Lewis & Clark College course taught by Dr. Reiko Hillyer. “CLASSROOM 4”, an award-winning documentary film about the course will air on PBS's POV on November 25th.

11/19/2025

I’ve got some new songs for you. Tuesday 10-midnight Pacific on KBOO Community Radio at KBOO.FM online and 90.7 FM in Portland. Archived if you miss it.

11/18/2025

A show about freedom. With all the songs called "Freedom." There were lots of songs called "Freedom." They spilled into the third hour, whic...

11/18/2025

DEATH OF A DRAG QUEEN

“This week on Transpositive PDX, airing Tuesday at 6pm on KBOO Community Radio, we are excited to bring you a conversation rooted in the power, vulnerability, and artistry of q***r performance. Transpositive is KBOO’s biweekly program exploring the lives, culture, politics, and creative work of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people in Portland and beyond. As always, we invite listeners to join us in building community through dialogue, storytelling, and shared imagination.

On this week’s show, we’ll be highlighting Death of a Drag Queen, a bold new play written and directed by Portland playwright Sean Brown. Described as a “lipstick-stained elegy for those of us who died trying,” the play delves into themes of aging, irrelevance, betrayal, and the emotional cost of surviving one’s own legend. Blending glamour, grit, and raw honesty, Death of a Drag Queen asks a question many q***r artists know intimately: what does it take to hold onto yourself in a world that wants your shine but not your struggle?

Sean Brown’s work has long explored identity, resilience, and the spectacle of survival. With a style that merges lyricism with unfiltered truth, Brown crafts theatrical worlds that shimmer with humor, heartbreak, and unapologetic humanity. Death of a Drag Queen continues that artistic lineage, presenting a story that confronts beauty and brutality in equal measure. Directed and performed by Brown and Sean Marlow, the production features a striking graphic-novel-inspired aesthetic and a deeply intentional approach to sound, costume, and stagecraft.

The play premieres December 5th at The Echo Theater in Portland, with additional performances on December 6, 12, 13, 19, and 20, followed by an extended January run at The Board Room at The Triangle Theater. As q***r stories face both celebration and suppression in our current climate, Death of a Drag Queen arrives at exactly the right moment—reclaiming drag not as entertainment alone, but as a living archive of identity, memory, and defiant survival.”

11/17/2025

More Noontime Jamboree fun with lots of records and a special telephone conversation with alt-country pioneer, Robbie Fulks. Monday, 12:10-2:00 pm KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 fm and www.kboo.fm.

11/12/2025

Radio show incoming! Find me Tuesdays 10-midnight Pacific on KBOO Community Radio at KBOO.FM online and 90.7 FM in Portland. Archived for your future.

11/11/2025

Phil G here: This Friday (11/14) at 1:30 PM (Pacific), on The Songcircle (in the The Forests of Fennario) on KBOO Community Radio, I will have the pleasure of playing an interview with Don Was. We talked about his new album "Groove in the Face of Adversity" with the Pan-Detroit Ensemble, working with the Stones, the Dead, the MC5, Willie Nelson, and so much more. He was a delight to talk with and I hope y'all will enjoy
90.7 in Portland online stream www.kboo.fm/listen-now
Good tunes, as well. Tune in!

11/11/2025

Let it be known I tried to get deep about the subject of "surface." I tried to use all meanings of the word. I sought out silly but appropri...

11/11/2025

Adam Carpinelli interviews Richie Ledreagle. An artist-musician-activist since the early 90’s, Richie established himself as a unique artist, being of indigenous descent and having created his own niche in the industry. He launched the Indigenous Warrior Enterprise comprising Indigenous Warrior Cl...

11/09/2025

It’s Tom and Wade show time! More Country and Western music on the Noontime Jamboree, 12:10-2:00 Monday KBOO Community Radio 90.7fm and www.kboo.fm. Swing it.

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