FCC chairman Brendan Carr, in his in-your-face partisanship continues to overtly push his henchmen (and henchwomen) in the corporate media to silence voices critical of the current regime. Coercing CBS bosses to pull Stephen Colbert’s Monday night interview with a Texas congressman running for Senate. This is very very alarming to those of us who hold FCC licenses. What’s next? Will they threaten to pull our licenses if we don’t stop playing Steve Earle or Jesse Wells? If they thought we had an audience large enough that mattered, there is a little doubt that they would.
This is getting scarier by the day. Please let your elected reps know, if you care. We do, and we are. November is right around the corner.

Jiveradio is one of the few ‘Americana’ music stations that regularly plays music from artists singing in another language besides English. To wit; Edith Piaf, Cesaria Evoria, and El Vez among others, admittedly sometimes unnerving some of our gringo-leaning listeners. But, overall, we know that most Jive listeners have come to expect and enjoy diversity in our programming and are far more tolerant than the average Spotify subscriber, who wants only comfortable, familiar music with no surprises, ever.
So, for those of you who missed Sunday’s bang-em-up game called football, and it’s halftime show with one Bad Bunny, we offer this chance to see it for the first time, or enjoy it again. Lyrical content aside, we found the music to be incredibly uplifting and the storytelling through the imagery, dance, and staging nothing short of frikkin’ great. It oozed with the glorious joy of diversity, coming from the most diverse nation in the world.

WATCH IT HERE

…and to top that off, here’s the Official Rancho Nevada radio jingle by Dan Hicks:

Bobby Weir is deservedly getting a lot of ink worldwide after his passing into the howling void recently. Here’s a nice sendoff from our compadre Catie Van Dyke, lovely daughter of our dear departed leader Bruce Van Dyke, who capably steered her at a young age into the world of the Deadheads: HERE

And while on the subject of the dearly departed, we’ve added another classic concert recording of Todd Snider opening for Robert Earl Keen at the Hawkins Amphitheater in Reno Nevada circa 2003, for your listening pleasure. In a rare move for his last song that day, he brought out a new ditty and the story of its inception:

LISTEN/DOWNLOAD “When You’re Broke”