Pacific Underground

The producers of Pacific Underground curated an hour of music by API musicians!

We're kicking off the New Year with music! We have had the pleasure of interviewing truly talented musicians and artists at Pacific Underground and today, we curated a playlist of songs by API musicians. Not all of them have been on Pacific Underground and some of the songs are older, but here's a taste of what plays in our earbuds.

1:04 Tito Felix- Anak

6:00 Abhi The Nomad- Somebody to Love

https://www.instagram.com/abhithenomad/

10:07 Julie Plug- Devoted

14:56 ZAYN- Scripted

https://www.instagram.com/zayn/

18:36 Anderson Paak (feat. Kendrick Lamar)- Tints (Clean version)

https://www.instagram.com/anderson._paak/

23:01 cdza- History Of Lyrics That Aren't Lyrics

https://www.cdzamusic.com/

26:05 The Slants- From the Heart (Track Town Records edition)

http://www.theslants.com/

29:58 H.E.R.- Hard Place

https://www.instagram.com/hermusicofficial/

33:58 Mitski- Nobody

https://www.instagram.com/mitskileaks/

37:09 One Vo1ce- Here I Go (Falling in Love Again)

42:04 POPgoji- I Wish

https://www.popgoji.com/

46:29 Jocelyn Enriquez- Do You Miss Me

50:13 Hanz Araki- The Snows

http://hanzaraki.com/

Elections are quickly approaching here in Portland so we're talking to Brandon Cruz from APANO (Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon) to talk about their Voter Guide and efforts to increase voter participation. We'll also be talking to Matt Lim who works for the city of Portland about affnity groups for city employees. Also, we include a vox pop about mental health from interviews collected at this year's East Portland Arts and Literary Festival.

Links about the city's affinity groups:

Diverse and Empowered Employees of Portland (DEEP): https://www.portlandoregon.gov/50880?fbclid=IwAR2Of8Dbh3eSO_Og4zYSNcug5BPdZ9dqWdUTCqDJes9dGLQC8gFvDJ5WEzc

Filipino American City Employees (FACE): https://www.portlandoregon.gov/50893?fbclid=IwAR0SonC-FvpIpA6pXbzmhwgzCPJ4pWPChdUQV0eu2kIYOZSgFYicQfmxj-M

Hapa, Asian, and Pacific Islander (HAPI): https://www.portlandoregon.gov/71327?fbclid=IwAR0YGWtV8paO1rWbL3uNEv3OgViPnBbmc2zNpkpNKPtXh_hYB8oKwJ1SaFk

Music by @chops

We return to the Portland Chinatown Museum to chat with 2 artists that have work on exhibition at the museum. Roberta Wong and Lynn Yarne talk about their work, identity, and their inspirations. We also have a vox pop from EPALF, the East Portland Arts and Literary Festival, of folks sharing their mental health stories. And want to know about November API events in Portland? Listen in!

It's Asian femme time! Tabitha and Jenna hang out live on air. They try out double eye lid tape and talk about all the things they talk about when they're hanging out off air like dating, music, whiteness, and east Asian American topics.

2018 marks 13 years of public affairs programming at KBOO for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, between the last three years of both Pacific Underground and the equally fantastic Intersections Radio, and the ten (!) years that APA Compass was on the air (2005-2015). To celebrate this anniversary, producers Jenna and Tabitha are joined by special guests and founding members of the APA Compass collective Liz Rogers, Marie Lo, and Patti Sakurai.

While the active roster of both shows has evolved over the years, the need for shows that highlight and stress the diversity of our experiences and viewpoints over and against images of our communities as passive, apolitical, and homogeneous, is as crucial as ever in this current political climate.

Crazy Rich Asians is doing well in the box office and is trending on social media, especially among Asian American. There are many who love the movie and say it represents a big step in representation, while there are many who could do without it and say it only furthers the problems in Asian mainstream representation. The Pacific Underground crew will talk about their take on the movie and about other Asian American media they're consuming these days. We'll also have a special guest -- Portland's own Creative Laureate Subashini Ganesan -- to talk about the real Singapore.

"Yellow" by Katherine Ho -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6NQZHyJYO8

Wo Yao Ni De Ai by Jasmine Chen -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjepR9LWl-g

"The look of love" by Jacintha -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWO7PyDl7Ks&list

Viet Thanh Nguyen on narrative scarcity -- https://vimeo.com/170099979

New Expressive Works --

Suba's Dance School -- http://www.natyaleela.com/about.html

Let's get personal with T Ngu, owner of Project Object! Join producer Vy Pham in a journey of learning about T's life story, including her family's resilience and survival as refugees in America, the birth and vision of Project Object, and the hardships of being a small business owner.

Project Object is a retail shop that features and supports artists and designers who identify as women, people of color, and/or lgbtq. It donates a portion of proceeds to non-profits and organizations making a difference in our world. Support this radical small business by grabbing some goodies in-person at the beautiful storefront on 2502 NE Sandy Blvd or online at https://projectobject.co/

Image credits: Nicholas Peter Wilson (http://www.nicholaspeterwilson.com/)

If you've ever wanted to learn more about tech and computer science but thought that it was too inaccessible a field for you, Vaidehi Joshi wants to help change that. Vaidehi is a software engineer with Tilde, and she also co-hosts the Base.cs podcast. Producer Kat Batuigas chats with Vaidehi about the tech industry, learning as well as teaching, and putting together Base.cs. Bonus: Vaidehi lets us know which side she's on with Salt & Straw versus Fifty Licks.

Follow Vaidehi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vaidehijoshi

Check out the original Base.cs series on https://medium.com/basecs, and listen to episodes of the Base.cs podcast on https://www.codenewbie.org/basecs

Music and sound credits: Wire Ties by @Chops, Kitty in the Window by Podington Bear, and JarredGibb.

Joe Kye plays live, talks about his experience as an immigrant, and talks about his artivism.

Producer Vy Pham talks to La Vang, owner of the only Hmong eatery in the Pacific Northwest - aptly named "@La's, A Hmong Food Cart," located in Aloha/Beaverton, OR. La is using her kitchen talents to spark conversations and educate the people of metro Portland about Hmong culture and history. An activist at heart, she is cultivating a platform for the Hmong community through her food.