Join RFP Presents  every Saturday evening at 5 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m.  (Arizona Time) for a mixture of special programming featuring Music & Interview Specials from local and national acts along with our guest DJ show “Radio Freedom”  where you get to play 15 songs you’d like to hear on the radio. To be a Guest DJ, just send an email to freedom@radiofreephoenix.com along with your song list and why you’d like to be on the program. Those that are picked to be on Radio Freedom, can come down to the station and record the show.  A great opportunity to bring out the DJ in you! Check out the music list of those that have already done the show HERE

Starting this Monday on Radio Free Phoenix join us for “What You Need To Know” as hosted by Michael Thomas Jr.  Each day he will bring an amazing and interesting story about something in the news you might have missed. This will run four times a day at 1a & 1p and 7a & 7p on RFP with a best of mix throughout the weekend.

Michael is the newest staff member of RFP and earned a B.A. in  Broadcast Journalism from Columbia College Chicago. He’s a twenty-something year old from Chicago’s Northwest Side (Go Cub’s!) and grew up listening to oldies with greats such as Larry Lujack, Herb Kent, and Dick Biondi. Michael is a News Junkie, Cinephile, Audiophile and Sports Fanatic. He’s also a Vinyl Junkie who loves playing music on his vintage console and an all around ”old soul” who loves all things vintage, like mid-century audio, watching old foreign, silent, and independent films and is a big Frank Sinatra fan too! Michael is new to Arizona having moved to Scottsdale from Chicago in January 2015.

I guess you can call him the RFP News Guy. In addition to “What You Need To Know” he is also putting together the new Radio Free Phoenix Concert Calendar which starting Monday, will be heard 7 days a week on RFP!

Listen to the What You Need To Know Archives HERE

Coming up on Radio Freedom this Saturday (January 31st) & Sunday (February 1st) it’s our guest DJ,

Kurt Augustine of Phoenix!

Kurt just discovered Radio Free Phoenix when he moved to Arizona from Minnesota six months ago.

For 10 years he was  the curator of an annual rock festival in Rochester, Minnesota called

“St. John’s Block Party.”

Kurt will present 15 hand-picked songs that bridge the past with the present – and many by artists you might not have ever heard — Just like RFP – A Deep Eclectic Mix of Rock & Roll!

This Christmas Eve on Radio Free Phoenix,  join us for the 26th Anniversary edition of “A Rock ‘N’ Roll Christmas”. From 6:00 p.m. Christmas Eve through Christmas day at midnight. (MST). We will be playing an incredible deep and outrageous mix of Rock N Roll Christmas Tunes. Hosted by Andy Olson, this is the only show in the country that gathers together such a smorgasbord of absolutely cool Christmas Rock & Roll — Featuring top flight Christmas Rock mixed with a generous helping of parody & novelty holiday tunes along with great background information on the artists and songs. Since 1988 this show has been gracing the Phoenix Airwaves, first on KSLX, then KDKB, KZON and then back to KSLX and now on Radio Free Phoenix!

Jackson Browne – U2 – Adam Sandler – Greg Lake – Eagles – Pretenders – Dan Hicks – Sting – Jimi Hendrix – Smithereens – Blues Traveler – George Thorogood – Cheech & Chong – John Mellencamp – Old 97’s – Fountains of Wayne –  Big Star – Ramones – George Harrison – Dave Edmunds – Billy Squire – Band Aid – Graham Parker –  Heart – Payolas – Cheap Trick – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – XTC – John Lennon – Waitresses –  Jethro Tull – REM – Ringo Starr – Kinks – DB’s – Paul McCartney – Bruce Springsteen – NRBQ – T Rex – Adrian Belew – Weird Al Yankovic – Squirrel Nut Zippers – Ramones – Bob Rivers – Shawn Phillips – Crash Test Dummies – Slade – Elton Duck –  Leon Redbone – Tom Waits – Peter Murphy – Alice Cooper – Bobby Lloyd & The Skeletons – Mojo Nixon – Doug & The Slugs – Bruce Cockburn – Smoking Popes – Talking Meds – Andrew Gold – Keb’ Mo – Riders In The Sky – The Band – Aimee Mann & Michael Penn – Loudon Wainwright III – Smithereens – Andrew Gold – Band Aid – Fab Four – Brian Wilson – Blondie – Joan Jett – Brian Setzer – Chuck Berry – She & Him – Sex Pistols – Donovan – Shins – John Prine – Keith Richards – Billy Squire – Guster – Slade – Yello – Payolas – Roy Wood & Wizzard – Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Graham Parker – Dave Matthews – Flaming Lips – Jorma Kaukonen – and many more!

You will not hear a show like this on any AM/FM station nor anywhere else on the internet. This is a truly unique Christmas experience that has stood the test of time!

Click HERE to Listen

It is time again for our Radio Free Phoenix Pledge Drive. We need to ask for donations via the Radiothon so we can continue our mission of preserving this great music and sharing it with the world (while remaining commercial-free). This is out first call for help since August 2013!

* Help preserve one of the last GREAT underground rock radio stations in the country.

* Help us stay commercial-free.  We will never sell-out by bombarding our listeners with 5-8 minute blocks of obnoxious commercials.

* Please help us to stay on the air.  As an all-volunteer, private entity, we receive no public funding.  Our only source of income is through CD sales on site and listener donations.

* Because our entire staff works on a volunteer basis, we have a very low overhead.  However, listeners must donate to cover the essentials such as server fees, music fees, electric bill, office rent, etc.

* Listeners can donate on a one time basis or chose a 6 month subscription plan (such as $20, $40, $60,  $80 or $100 per month for six months)

* Go to RadioFreePhoenix.com and click on the donation button to donate.

* Listeners can also send donations to Radio Free Phoenix  591 S. Fourth St Globe, AZ 85501

We will be running our Radiothon from Wednesday, November 19th through Sunday, November 23rd.  Thanks for your donations!

Radio Free Phoenix welcomes the legendary Sharon Kelley, as she joins the RFP airwaves, beginning this Sunday at 4pm! In tribute to her 30 year career as the first female television director in Arizona, including helming the Wallace and Ladmo Show for many years (plus a subsequent Emmy Award), Sharon will be inducted into the Arizona Broadcaster’s Association Hall of Fame, later this month. We are so excited to be welcoming this professional, and true rock and roller, to the RFP family!

On “RFP Presents” this weekend , It’s singer-songwriter John Stewart with one of his last in-depth interviews. This first aired on Radio Free Phoenix just days before his final show in Scottsdale on February 19th, 2006.

Join Andy Olson as he talks with John about his musical history (including his final album, The Day the River Sang) along with plenty of stories behind some of his most famous songs. This Saturday at 5pm & Sunday at 3pm (AZ Time/Pacific Time)

(note: John Stewart  was 68 years old when he passed away on  January 19, 2008  from a sudden stroke. He had recorded a final album that has yet to be released and might not ever be)

Join us for Radio Freedom this Saturday at 5pm  & Sunday at 3pm (AZ-Pacific Time) on Radio Free Phoenix. Our in-studio guest DJ will be singer-songwriter, Dylan Gardner!

Dylan will be playing 15 favorite songs that have inspired him over the years!

  Find out more about Dylan HERE