Back To The Egg

Join me for this week's edition of ANODYNE with guest Michael Keefe (music journalist and media buyer for local bookstore Annie Bloom's) as we review the year in music (2009). We'll count down our top ten albums and then play some other songs that tickled our fancies this y... Read more

ANODYNE moves to Sundays at midnight starting November 29th.From midnight to 3am, host JBJ plays a mix of new wave, punk, indie rock, and local music.  Read more

It's KBOO's Fall Membership Drive! Put on your black clothes, your lipstick and your white hi-tops and join ANODYNE for a Cure retrospective: 2 and 1/2 hours of moody post-punk and goth-pop, with an occasional "Lovecats" here and there to lighten things up a bit. 3am - 5:30... Read more

Summer vacation is nearly over, school is starting....Join me in a fond farewell to summer. I'll be doing things a little differently, playing a concert from Spoon (recorded in Austin a few months ago), and also some tracks from Kid Koala's first release "Scratch Happy Land... Read more

ANODYNE welcomes NYC-based singer/songwriter Matt Keating to the KBOO studios August 17th. Matt's music melds the country feel of Willie Nelson with the classic songwriter sounds of a Ron Sexsmith or an Elvis Costello. New York Times says that "his tunes are clear-cut, and ... Read more

Good news! The 2009 PDX Pop Now! compilation is out this week! It seems like the perfect time to pull out ALL SIX PDX Pop Now compilations and throw together a local music show. PDX Pop Now began in 2004, it is a non-profit org that produces this amazing festival each summe... Read more

"What do I play next?" is my favorite question as a KBOO DJ. And every once in awhile, I'll have a revelatory moment or a hunch that pays off with a great combination of songs. For the one year anniversary of ANODYNE on KBOO, I'll be featuring as many of these moments as I ... Read more

Portland mayor Sam Adams declared this past Saturday (April 18th) to be Record Store Day. Good thing, too, because we were already celebrating it on a national level. The cynics will sneer about a last minute cash-grab attempt from a dying industry, but the aficionados will... Read more

Robyn Hitchcock celebrates birthday #56 on March 3rd. In honor of the occasion, ANODYNE will re-air its Soft Boys / Robyn Hitchcock retrospective. The special was produced last fall to coincide with KBOO's fall membership drive. It runs chronologically, beginning with a Sof... Read more

Portland Oregon band Super XX Man will be playing on Anodyne this coming Monday Februrary 16th beginning at 4:30am or so. Tune in to hear them play songs from their newly-released album "Volume XII: There'll Be Diamonds" on Tender Loving Empire records. Read more