Festival Pass: Some new and familiar voices on Southern California radio

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I was talking to a friend this week about what shows we were planning to see when the world opens up again. I can’t wait for Guns N’ Roses at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. He was thinking about trying to get a ticket to the My Chemical Romance reunion at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where he lives.

He figured he missed out on tickets when they first went on sale, so maybe people were wanting to get rid of them now. He was wrong. The cheap seats are still going for hundreds on the resale market.

We ended up talking for a bit about the pent-up demand for concerts, a topic that also came up a little bit on our new episode of the Can’t Feel the Heat unofficial Coachella podcast.

And while things are quiet on the Southern California festival front this week, the airwaves are shaking up with some big news in the radio world. Read on.

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Kevin Ryder, right, joins Doug “Sluggo” Roberts, left as cohost of the KLOS-FM afternoon show starting Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Ryder had cohosted “The Kevin and Bean Show” on KROQ-FM for three decades before the station abruptly dropped him in March 2020. (Photo courtesy of KLOS-FM)

He’s baaaaack

If you missed Kevin Ryder after KROQ unceremoniously axed the long-running morning show host in 2020, we have good news. He’s joining Doug “Sluggo” Roberts for the afternoon drive-time show on 95.5 KLOS-FM. Get the details.

Singer-songwriter Remi Wolf is one of the many female artists featured on ALT 98.7/FM’s “She Is The Voice,” a program that focuses on women in alternative music. The show airs every Friday from 8-8:30 p.m. and is hosted by station program director Lisa Worden. (Photo by Amy Sussman,Getty Images)

She will rock you

A couple of weeks back we mentioned that ALT 98.7 FM’s had a new show coming out called “She Is the Voice” show featuring women in alternative music. Kelli Skye Fadroski talked to the station’s program director, and the show’s host, Lisa Worden, about the new program.

Randy Randall a musician with the band No Age, hangs out at the studio of Channel 66, the new livestream network at the Vans store in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, February 12, 2021.(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)

From ‘Off the Wall’ to on the air

Tune in to Vans’ new Channel 66 and you might see the Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA playing  chess or hear the Chulita Vinyl Club spinning hard-to-find tracks. One Vans official described it “community radio meets public access TV.”

DJ, record producer, programmer and record label owner Steve Aoki launched En Fuego, the Latin imprint of his popular Dim Mak record label, last year and has already found success with his latest artists, Aquihayaquihay and Andrekza. (Photo by Aldo Carrera)

Diversifying Dim Mak

Reporter Kelli Skye Fadroski caught up with Steve Aoki about the DJ’s new Latin imprint, Dim Mak En Fuego.“This has actually been a long time coming,” Aoki said.Read more about the artists on the new label.

Los Tucanes de Tijuana performs during Chella, a community concert at the Riverside County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, April 17, 2019. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

Can’t Feel the Heat

We’re back with another new episode of unofficial Coachella podcast “Can’t Feel the Heat.” This week, we’re talking with Angel Chavez about the relationship of the festival with the Coachella Valley, the Chella concerts and the most animated artist we had planned to see in 2020. Check it out on Apple podcasts and Spotify.


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