Programming

The Afro-Cuban Jazz Edition is a radio program in English that features the very best Latin Jazz from everywhere including new and recent Jazz recordings (sometimes with exclusive interviews and musical selections)The host Frankie Pineiro has done radio for the past 30 years, also a bandleader for Guisando Caliente Latin Jazz Quintet, Viva Cal Sextet, […]

New Show Alert! Mind.Your.Business. with Dana and Ryan is a 2-hour, bi-weekly, music-focused talk-show on Sarasota’s own Community Radio Station WSLR 96.5 LP-FM and WBPV 100.1 LP-FM in Bradenton. Mind.Your.Business. weaves headline news with pop culture and personal dialogue that is relevant and relatable. We are radical, feminist, and f-ing hilarious. From 90s hip-hop anthems […]

This week on LATIN EXPLOSION its Juan Formell and Los Van Van, a band that represents the epitome of Cuban popular music innovation. Plus Los Zafiros, Wilfrido Vargas y mucho mas. Friday, 8/2/19, 7-9am on WSLR 96.5 FM in Sarasota, stream live on WSLR.org or listen anytime, anywhere at WSLR.org/archives. “Ya Tu Campana Suena!”

It’s never the same song twice with WSLR’s ‘InTransition‘! Tuesday nights at 9 PM EDT are a veritable feast for your ears with the newest alt-pop, indie-rock, drone-wave and post-metal platters dished up by your host, the 801. Live stream at wslr.org/wslr-popup-player, listen after the fact at archive.wslr.org or grab the free app! Mark your […]

Why do Sarasota beaches turn up on “don’t swim” lists? Sarasota’s water quality is an ongoing concern. Tune in this morning when my guest Andy Mele from Suncoast Waterkeepers will update us on their efforts to hold Sarasota County to the Clean Water Act.

LATIN EXPLOSION focuses on Bebo Valdes and Chucho Valdes this Friday, 7-9am on WSLR 96.5 FM Sarasota. Though father and son lived separate lives, one in Cuba and the other in Europe, they had similar musical styles that go to the heart of Cuban music. Plus, Bobby Valentin, Vicentico and Mercedita Valdes and something new: […]

This Wednesday, June 26 at 9am we’ll be talking in the studio to Herald-Tribune columnist Carrie Seidman and Andrea Blanch of the Center for Religious Tolerance. They’ll talk about what they learned while attending the Trauma-Informed Community Development Institute at Duquesne University recently. In the second half of the show we’ll learn from Tracy Spalsbury […]