Cia Cia La Pirata

02/05/2025

KALX’s Design Contest is going on throughout February!
Have you been contemplating lofty creative concepts, doodling endearing napkin sketches, or thinking up cool images that you think would look sweet on the next KALX shirt or sticker?
Well, get on it!
Want The deets? Visit kalx.berkeley.edu where you’ll find everything you need to know.
(Management says the deadline is not going to get extended, so DO IT NOW.) Thanks immensely!

Everything you need to know about the 2025 Design Contest https://kalx.berkeley.edu/2025-kalx-design-contest/

01/10/2025

My concerns & deep empathy go out to my SoCal friends, family, and everyone who's been touched in some way by these devastating, ongoing fires.
I personally know people who've lost homes.
Monday night (when I recorded this Why Baby Why) the fires hadn't started yet.
My mind was on President Carter as I planned this episode. There's a tribute set for him, plus lots of music that hopefully will bring an hour of joy to anyone who could use it during these difficult days.

12/27/2024

It’s true! I’m hosting the KALX Live! 2024 RetroSpectacular Extravaganza again this year… Saturday December 28th from 9PM to Midnight. I’m really looking forward to it! I hope you’ll tune in to listen to a little bit of *every artist who played on KALX Live! during 2024*.
90.7 FM / kalx.berkeley.edu

Tune in Saturday, December 28th, from 9PM to Midnight as host Cia Cia La Pirata celebrates the year’s bounty of exciting performances with excerpts from every artist who visited the show in 2024. So many artists, so little time!

09/05/2024

Every year around this time, the 2 cities of Berkeley & Albany work together to transform Solano Avenue into a mile-long walking street for the day. It's called The Solano Avenue Stroll... and it's happening this Sunday 9/8 from 10 to 5. KALX will have a booth there! (We're jazzed!) We hope you'll stroll over and say hello!

Are you going to be at the Solano Avenue Stroll this Sunday, September 8th?
WE ARE! That's right, KALX will be "doing the Stroll" with you, all day from 10 to 5!
Our booth will be just "a few blocks west of the very top" (the Berkeley end).
Come say hi, check out the sweet Prize Wheel, and enter our drawing to win KALX goodies.
Maybe you will win the Grand Prize: a CD boombox with FM radio and Bluetooth!
We're looking forward to seeing you there this Sunday!

07/26/2024

Sometimes you just need to gaze upon a happy-go-lucky little piglet, ya know?
Anyway, I'm going to be hosting the "Why Baby Why" show **tonight at Midnight** on 90.7 fm KALX Berkeley, and online at kalx.berkeley.edu for those of you NOT within the terrestrial listening zone. I wanted to let you know that.
That's this Thursday night... July 25th at Midnight, as your Thursday becomes your Friday.
And now... back to the piglet.

05/06/2024

This Friday May 10, the Freight & Salvage welcomes ✨Kitka✨ in concert. KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM is co-announcing this event... which means you can say hi to friendly station volunteers before the show.
🎟🎟 WIN TICKETS! 🎟🎟
Listen on May 7 during the Sparkle Motion *and* the Charley Varrick shows to get a chance to grab pairs of passes! When they announce it, call 510-642-KALX for the opportunity to win!

KALX Co-Announce: May 10, Kitka at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. This award-winning Oakland-based vocal arts ensemble is celebrated for its vast, breathtaking repertoire of traditional songs from Eastern Europe. For this show, the group will be singing a special selection of songs as an expression of solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

04/24/2024

Thank you, once again, to each and every one of you who donated during the show! You are officially part of our balanced breakfast… and… you’ve helped to keep 🥓sizzling along for another year! 💚 Big appreciation and gratitude from your volunteerin’ pals, namely me ‘n Last Will aka William Nichols - and all of us at KALX Berkeley - for going to kalx.berkeley.edu/donate and serving a sweet helping of your generosity!!
✨Henri, Andrew, “Batteries”, Sully, George, David, Anonymous Donor, Syd, Carmen, and Charlie!✨

04/24/2024

🌅🌤️Rise and shine! Last Will aka William Nichols is on the air with me from 7-9 am this morning!
🍩🍳🍊We’re having breakfast on the90.7 fm KALX airwaves, with you dear listeners!
Tune in… and if you haven’t done it yet… please donate what you can to your hardworking KALX pals to get us through one more year! kalx.berkeley.edu/donate

04/24/2024

Wednesday April 24 from 7-9am: Join us for an uncharacteristically early morning show (!) on the KALX airwaves. Yes, Last Will (aka William Nichols) and I will be starting the day with a radio-breakfast-hangout in his back yard to celebrate the Final Day of the KALX 2024 Fundraiser! Hope you can listen, and donate if you are able. 90.7 fm / kalx.berkeley.edu

04/23/2024

DJ PennyRoyal invited the band Juicebumps to play on "KALX Live!" this past Saturday night... a fun time was had!
It's currently KALX's big 2024 Fundraiser (going through Wednesday 4/24). The video feed of their set that night didn't *quite work out to be viewable in real time* that night. Whoopsie! These technical difficulties can happen.
(If only we have some money to fix our wonky tech...) 😏
Well-- here's the video of the performance, a couple of days after the fact.
Please enjoy.
🎩 Dig those tuxedo-clad KALX-lovers!
💸 Wanna send a wee bit of monetary support to your fave college/community radio station, KALX Berkeley? It's tax-deductible.
If ya do, please visit kalx.berkeley.edu/donate to see how we'll THANK YOU for your dollars.
Thanks for your support!

Juicebumps helped KALX celebrate 4/20 by performing in the studio on KALX Live! We had some technical difficulties with the video stream that night, so the r...

03/29/2024

Tonight at Midnight as Thursday turns into Friday, I’m hosting At War With Heaven. It’s our specialty show that celebrates metal and loud music every other week on KALX radio.
🌙Heading to sleep early?
Leave your radio locked to The Mighty 90.7 and let me color your dreams.
🌃Feeling sleepless?
Stick with me. I’ll keep you company from Midnight to 1:00 AM PDT.
That’s tonight, on your University of California and🩶listener-supported radio, KALX Berkeley.
90.7 FM / kalx.berkeley.edu / free App

03/08/2024

This Thursday 3/7 at Midnight on your KALX Berkeley 90.7 fm it's the "WHY BABY WHY" show... and I'm hosting this episode!
I'll be playing Roots, Country, Blues, and a set of International Americana too. Hope you can listen this evening.
You can access the archive on kalx.berkeley.edu for 2 weeks just in case you need to hit the hay early so you can milk the cows in the morning. 👉🏽👉🏽👉🏽*Post-Show Airing Note: The archived show that’s up for 2 weeks will have 14 unwanted/unrelated minutes of music at the beginning due to the station’s show-player *having a fit of some sort* this evening. Due to the technical difficulties, listeners who seek out the archive to listen to later will hear the show start ~14 minutes in, but hopefully the whole thing will play if you stick with it past the one-hour point! (Not sure!)

02/23/2024

Hey! KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM launched the T-shirt Design Contest **and** the deadline has just been EXTENDED!
Yes! It’s true! New deadline is March 1st, 2024.
You have 1 additional week to
a) design something yourself, or
b) share the news/tell your artistic friends.
(Now, where did you stash all your art supplies?)
You can go look at the contest details & instructions, which are all at: kalx.berkeley.edu/design
Thanks so much for helping spread the word!

Our 2024 Design Contest is in effect! We are accepting submissions. Follow the link for all the details!

https://www.kalx.berkeley.edu/design/

02/15/2024

Well, this was an unexpected surprise!
A re-airing of the KALX Live! 2023 RetroSpectacular Extravaganza is playing on the KALX airwaves RIGHT NOW during our overnight hours.
Sounds like it started at 2:00 am, so this 5-hour special show oughta go all the way to 7:00 am. (I just went into our logging to show the plays, so you can see the entries.)
So to all you insomniacs and shift workers… I’m with ya in prerecorded spirit! (Please enjoy!)

01/20/2024

Hey everybody! ☔️ Happy rainy Saturday!
Just wanted to let you know that I’m on the KALX airwaves TODAY, in about 10 minutes… from 3pm to 5:30… to share some of my Best Of 2023 picks with you.
I am honored to get to fill in for DJ Anonymous, and I hope you get to tune in.
(Show is ever-so-slightly prerecorded… I thought it‘s only right to let ya know, in case you call and wonder why I don’t pick up.) ;-)
90.7 fm • kalx.berkeley.edu

12/30/2023

The tradition continues in 2023! Back in 2011, the KALX Live! show crew had an idea… to make a special year-end episode that could look back on the plethora of exciting performances which took place during the year— a retrospective of spectacular proportions.

The tradition of the "RetroSpectacular Extravaganza" was born then, and amazingly, we’ve been doing it ever since!

Tune in Saturday, December 30th at 7PM - Midnight to catch the KALX Live! 2023 RetroSpectacular Extravaganza hosted by Cia Cia La Pirata.

This year, we had to super-size it! (Note that 7PM start time.)
Excerpts from every artist who performed on KALX Live! during 2023 will be showcased. Don’t miss it!