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Que Tal? Program Episode Highlights for Mar 26-Apr 1 2023

Want to know what topics hosts and guests will be discussing on your favorite talk shows this week? Or what themes your favorite music hosts will be highlighting? Click on each day for details of show episodes. If you like what you see and hear, go to our Donate page and show your support! A full list of programming may be found on our Schedule page.

Sunday

The First Rock and Roll Song
Sunday 12-3 AM
The first rock and roll song pre-dated Elvis and everyone else credited by commercial interests as "discovering rock and roll." Jamie Dell’Apa says the first rock and roll song was steeped in vocal harmony that predates all of rock and roll instrumentations. Maybe rock and roll just needed a whimsey of songs about drive-in movies and big chiefs.

Making Contact
Sunday 11:30 AM-12 PM, Rebroadcast
Friday 12:30-1 PM
How journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Race Massacre from KalaLea, producer and host of Blindspot: Tulsa Burning, and Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar of Tulsa’s Tri-City Collective. They discuss current efforts to better understand, not just the tragedy of the event, but also the success of the neighborhood before and after the attack.

The Moth
Sunday 1-2 PM, Rebroadcast
Tuesday 5-6 PM
Stories of the power of sound and the newness found through listening and trusting our ears. Storytellers include Stanley Alpert relying on his hearing when he is kidnapped, Faith Ekienabor finding a brand-new way to her college class, T Dixon discovering the power of her own voice and Anna Schuleit building an unconventional instrument.

Strange Currency
Sunday 2-4 PM, Rebroadcast
Thursday 11 PM -1 AM
Join Jedd Beaudoin for selections from Conjured Light, the new LP from Wichita’s Team Tremolo as well as music from the new reissue of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.

Medium Rare
Sunday 5-6 PM, Rebroadcast
Thursday 10-11 PM
Bother B hosts another hour of eclectic mix goodness. Jazz is on tap to start the hour with Billy Cobham, Bob James, Bob Malcach and The Rippingtons. Brother B gets super smooth with Fourplay, then Béla Fleck & The Flecktones add an unusual tune, and The Crusaders cover Jeff Beck. Lee Ritenour and David Benoit round out the Jazz offerings, then a switch to Blues with Kim Simmonds with an all-acoustic guitar original and Richie Havens dares to cover a classic Who tune. Another fast hour of fun will be yours! Be there or be square!

Music They Don't Want You to Hear
Sunday 6-8 PM
Wed 10-12 PM, Rebroadcast
Gems from Maria Muldaur, Bonnie Raitt and Sweet Honey in the Rock just to get things started, then songs for our lovely Spring winds. We also commemorate the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of March 25, 1911, and rev up some boogie-woogie from the Queen of the 88's.

Monday

Alternative Radio
Monday 12-1 PM
Concentration of any industry is dangerous, media concentration in particular, because of the vast influence media exert in shaping public opinion. Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), reports that years ago, legendary journalist and media critic Ben Bagdikian warned of the dangers posed by media monopolies. As Bagdikian predicted, corporate business interests would trump journalism, particularly investigative journalism. A vibrant democracy is ill-served by a corporate media that is heavily connected to and reliant on official sources. An informed citizenry is essential for the communications needs of a democratic society. Media monopolies should be broken up.

The Latin Alternative
Monday 2-3 PM, Rebroadcast
Saturday 4-5 PM
Josh Norek and Ernestor Lechner highlight the psychedelic vibes of Glue Trip, Making Movies and Mon Laferte, Kinky and Ximena Sarinana.

Global Village
Monday 3-4 PM
In conjunction with the March Women’s History Month feature, Chris Heim devotes the show to great women artists from around the world. Hear legends like Oumou Sangare, rising stars like Rokia Kone, and the latest releases from Kurdish soul artist Meral Polat, South African singer Lorraine Klaasen, Chinese pipa player Gao Hong, the Finnish quartet Enkel, guitarist Roberta Roman, and Franco-Algerian singer-songwriter Souad Massi. Plus a Rai blast from the past from Chaba Fadela, steel drum player Joy Lapps, Polish-Ukranian singers and band leaders DagaDana, Ethiopian singer Miinyeshu, and acclaimed Mauritanian singer and instrumentalist Noura Mint Seymali.

Reveal
Monday 5-6 PM
Members of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation community put pressure on the Catholic Church to share information about the boarding school it ran on the reservation. Indian Country Today reporter Mary Annette Pember visits Red Cloud Indian School, which has launched a truth and healing initiative for former students and their descendants. In its early years, the school tried to strip students of their culture, but these days, it teaches the Lakota language and boasts a high graduation rate and rigorous academics. Pember then discovers that many Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions’ records are redacted or off-limits entirely, but then comes across a nuns’ diary with important information.

Tuesday

Reporter's Notebook
Tuesday 9-10 AM
Thursday 5-6 PM, Rebroadcast
Damien Willis speaks with Melanie Majors, executive director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government (FOG). With New Mexico’s legislative session having just wrapped up, several bills that would have a tremendous impact on transparency and the state’s Inspection of Public Records were winding their way through the legislature. FOG opposes Senate Bill 63 which would shield the names of applicants of high-level government jobs. House Bill 232 would revise New Mexico’s public records law to exempt from release certain cybersecurity records and law enforcement video of death notifications, nudity or certain other images. While FOG was involved in discussions surrounding the bill, the organization did not formally oppose the changes.

Monsoon Down the Radio
Tuesday 8-10 PM, Rebroadcast
Friday 5-7 PM
This week’s sequence is called New Music with Lady Poppy: #162. The venerable Lady Poppy returns to help The Tater find and deliver the best music released in the first quarter of 2023. We’ve spent so much time out on the sonic edge few Las Crucens devour — and we’re so excited to share what we have found.

Monsoon Down the Radio

Music They Don't Want You to Hear
Tuesday 10 PM-12 AM, Rebroadcast
Sunday 6-8 PM
This week’s sequence is called New Music with Lady Poppy: #162. The venerable Lady Poppy returns to help The Tater find and deliver the best music released in the first quarter of 2023.

Wednesday

Speak Up Las Cruces
Wednesday 8-10 AM
Wed 2-4 PM, Rebroadcast
8-8:30 AM:
Walt Rubel and Peter Goodman discuss current local and national issues. Listeners are invited to Speak Up at 575-526-5825.

8:30-9:00 AM:
NMSU history professor Ken Hammond discusses his upcoming ALR presentation on the history of China from the Opium War to the Age of Reform, 1838-1978.

9:00-10:00 AM:
All local legislators have been invited to discuss this year’s 60-day legislative session which concluded earlier this month.

Musical Celebrations
Wed 6-7 PM
Friday 9-10 AM, Rebroadcast
Walt Rubel celebrates the Las Cruces Home and Garden Show which takes place Saturday and Sunday at the Convention Center. Songs include “Homeward Bound,” “Feels Like Home” and “Bring It On Home.”

Monsoon Down the Radio
Wed 8-10 PM, Rebroadcast
Friday 5-7 PM
Tater’s sequence is called Hoover Dam On Down: #161. The music has been blessed by the 54-degree waters of the Colorado River, anointed by beaver-heavy sunshine, and held under by the raging pressures of geological happiness — oh, and some Allman Brothers.

Monsoon Down the Radio

Music They Don't Want You to Hear
Wed 10-12 PM, Rebroadcast
Sunday 6-8 PM
Gems from Maria Muldaur, Bonnie Raitt and Sweet Honey in the Rock just to get things started, then songs for our lovely Spring winds. We also commemorate the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of March 25, 1911, and rev up some boogie-woogie from the Queen of the 88's.

Thursday

Reporter's Notebook
Thursday 5-6 PM, Rebroadcast
Tuesday 9-10 AM
Damien Willis speaks with Melanie Majors, executive director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government (FOG). With New Mexico’s legislative session having just wrapped up, several bills that would have a tremendous impact on transparency and the state’s Inspection of Public Records were winding their way through the legislature. FOG opposes Senate Bill 63 which would shield the names of applicants of high-level government jobs. House Bill 232 would revise New Mexico’s public records law to exempt from release certain cybersecurity records and law enforcement video of death notifications, nudity or certain other images. While FOG was involved in discussions surrounding the bill, the organization did not formally oppose the changes.

Medium Rare
Thursday 10-11 PM
Sunday 5-6 PM, Rebroadcast
Brother B launches another eclectic mix; this time it will be an all Blues and Rock extravaganza. Taj Mahal starts off, then Joe Cocker, Leon Russell and Randy Newman. Alice Cooper, Ursa Major and Black Sabbath follow, then Jethro Tull, Supertramp and T. Rex all appear. Finally, hear from Todd Rundgren, Ten Years After and Stephen Stills. Isn't it about time you heard the Medium Rare mix? Be there or be square!

Friday

Musical Celebrations
Friday 9-10 AM, Rebroadcast
Wed 6-7 PM
Walt Rubel celebrates the Las Cruces Home and Garden Show which takes place Saturday and Sunday at the Convention Center. Songs include “Homeward Bound,” “Feels Like Home” and “Bring It On Home.”

Saturday

The Audacity of Pop
Saturday 8-9 AM
Take a trip with Lorenzo Parra through pop history with songs celebrating the human condition to help save others. From Fontella Bass in 1965 to the Jonas Brothers in 2019, we dance with hope and gratitude. The show is dedicated to the people who go out of their way everyday to save a life and make the world a brighter place.

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New Show Alert: The Audacity of Pop!

KTAL-LP has a brand-new show titled The Audacity of Pop! hosted by Lorenzo Parra that airs 8-9 AM on Saturdays. This show incorporates music from the genre from as early as Elvis Presley in 1956 to Lil Nas in 2022, featuring hits from Pop’s inception to the present day. The show will also include stories of the time when the music was recorded, to partner as a snapshot of social and musical history.

The host will also invite listeners to share their own stories with the music or to suggest a playlist addition. Pop has been with us for seven decades, as we have endured the perils of war, corruption, death, disease, and other maladies. But Pop has also been with us as we have celebrated peace, victory, justice, equality, and hope. That is The Audacity of Pop!

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