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Dallas, TX based Latinx band Luna Luna recently came to Reno to perform at The Holland Project. Joyce, host of KWNK’s Indie Latin Beats, sat down with the band ahead of their show. Listen back to hear a conversation about the varying DIY communities Luna Luna has experienced along their tour, the band’s origin as a solo project, their songwriting process, and more!

To learn more about Luna Luna, check them out on Instagram @lunalunaband.

A meditation on living and writing in this vast open land.

In this episode of Roots Junction, your host Jim Davidson sits down for an interview with guitarist Carl Weingarten.

Carl is a longtime friend of Jim. The two grew up together in the St. Louis suburbs and went to the same elementary school.

Carl has been recording music since he was in college. He began his music career playing electronic music in a band in St. Louis. After relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1992, Carl was exposed to Indian music and profoundly inspired by the Eastern tonalities of the music.

Carl is gearing up to release a new EP in February 2022. The first single of the EP is out today Friday November 12th.

Listen to the interview above to learn more about Carl’s music career and the evolution of his music!

Bike Life Radio on KWNK, a show where we talk to people about their bikes and lives. In this episode, we talk to the owner of Pineapple Pedicabs about the business and chat with some of her drivers.

KWNK is turning 4 years old on Halloween 2021. To mark the anniversary we had local designer Jenna Sikkerveer create a special 4th anniversary website banner for us. We sat down with Jenna to learn more about her design for the station, her other work, and her dream graphic design projects.

Listen to the interview to learn more about Jenna and check out her KWNK design at KWNKradio.org!

Check out Jenna’s work or hire her for a commission here.

This week on Soft Power Radio, we are in conversation with Jessica Pishko about a reactionary political grouping that has been steadily gaining influence in the US: the Constitutional Sheriffs. Pishko is a lawyer and a writer who recently published a profile on Mark Lamb, Sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona. Lamb's media-savvy, gun-toting, straight-talking persona is emblematic of a novel force in the right-wing world, a kind of hybrid lawman/politician who markets himself as an armed defender of 'traditional values.' We talk about what these values might be, the legal and historical roots of sheriffs' power and influence, and the ideology behind the rhetoric and the gun. You can read more of Pishko's work at jessicapishko.com

A meditation on the poetry of Artificial Intelligence.

On a new Soft Power Radio, we conversation with Dwight George, who recently directed the local production of 'The Thanksgiving Play,' written by Larissa FastHorse. The play is a satire on wokeness, whiteness, intentions, and erasure. It's about the attempt - fictional but also painfully accurate - of four white people to put on a culturally sensitive Thanksgiving play for an elementary school audience. We talk with Dwight about producing the play and watching the response to it so far, about the challenges and effectiveness of art and humor in tackling complex social issues, and about the crucial distinction between intentions and impacts. Catch the play during its last weekend - October 15th and 16th at 730 PM and October 17th at 2 PM at the Reno Little Theater. Get tix and find more info at renolittletheater.org

A meditation on the role of the women rewriting the West.

We are revisiting a conversation with People With Bodies and the release of their album Field Notes from last year. The band has decided to hang up their spurs and as we all know, People With Bodies Always Dies. From being one of our 1st KWNK Sessions, hosting their own People With Bodies Radio Hour, and playing many shows at our 1st studio space on Wells Ave, they have been a part of KWNK since we were born! ❤️ Join us TONIGHT(10/7/21) at the Holland Project for their FINAL show and send-off!