This Saturday at 2pm (AZ-PST) and an encore on Sunday at 12 noon, Join Andy Olson for a Music & Interview Special with singer-songwriter, Shawn Phillips. Andy will be talking with Shawn about his musical career, his connection with Donovan, (he co-wrote Season of the Witch), He give a young Joni Mitchell guitar lessons, taught George Harrison how to play the sitar and so much more. Listen for plenty of Shawn Phillips music and the great stories behind the songs, Shawn will be opening up for Dave Mason this Tuesday, October 24th at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix. Get set to listen to a entire hour of Shawn Phillips & his Music on Radio Free Phoenix!

Listen to the interview with Shawn Phillips

This Saturday at 2pm (AZ-PST) and an encore on Sunday at 12 noon, Join Andy Olson for a Music & Interview Special with Dave Mason. Andy will be talking with Dave about his music and solo career, his days with Traffic, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, working with Hendrix on the Electric Ladyland album and so much more. Dave Mason will be in concert, Tuesday, October 24th at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix. Shawn Phillips will be opening up the show. Get set to listen to a entire hour of Dave Mason & his Music on Radio Free Phoenix!

LISTEN TO THE DAVE MASON INTERVIEW BELOW

Join Andy Olson on Radio Free Phoenix, this Saturday, September 16th at 2pm (AZ-PST) and Sunday at 12 noon for A Music & Interview Special with Roger Boyd, founder and keyboard player with Head East (best know for the song, Never Been Any Reason). Head East will be in concert on September 21st at Celebrity Theater in Phoenix along with Blue Oyster Cult in a Danny Zelisko Presents show. Andy will be talking with Roger about the band, it’s history and also playing songs from their new album, Full Circle. Join us at RFP!

Listen to the Music & Interview Special w/ Roger Boyd

Radio Free Phoenix is available on any Amazon Echo device by saying, Alexa, play Radio Free Phoenix on Tunein, and on Google Home devices by saying, Hey Google, play Radio Free Phoenix!  You can also go to the RFP listen page for other listening options HERE

Join us this Saturday, August 12th at 2pm and Sunday, August 13th at 12 pm (AZ-PST) for Radio Freedom, our Guest DJ show. Our guest host will be Mike McCoy of Gilbert, Arizona.

Mike has a long radio history having spent many years on the air and also programing radio stations in Salt Lake City & Rochester, NY.

Mike grew up in Phoenix and first got the radio bug running around KRUX Radio back in the 60’s. His Dad, Al McCoy, was the Program Director and DJ at the station. He met legendary Phoenix DJ, Bill Compton at an Elvis Concert. Bill Compton got his start on KRUX with the KRUX Underground before moving to the Underground KCAC & KDKB.

Join Mike as he plays his 15 favorite songs on Radio Freedom this Saturday at 3pm and Sunday at 12 noon on Radio Free Phoenix!

Andy Olson & Mike McCoy

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).

Please Donate HERE

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

We will be running our Radiothon from Friday, July 14th through Wednesday July 19th.  Thanks for your donations!

For the 34th year, it’s A Rock & Roll Christmas with Andy Olson. Join Radio Free Phoenix for a 30 hour slice of the deepest and wildest Christmas Rock & Roll in existence! The show start at 6 pm Christmas Eve and runs to Midnight Christmas Day (AZ-MST).

Expect to hear music from:

Jackson Browne  – Monkees – U2 – Adam Sandler – Greg Lake – Dan Hicks – Sting –Belle & Sebastian – Smithereens – Cheech & Chong – John Mellencamp – Steve Barton – Old 97’s – Fountains of Wayne – Ramones – George Harrison – Dave Edmunds – Graham Parker – Payolas – Crash Test Dummies – XTC – John Lennon – Dar Williams – The Kennedys – Waitresses – Jethro Tull – REM – Ringo Starr – Royal Guardsman – Kinks – DB’s – Paul McCartney – Bruce Springsteen – NRBQ – T Rex – Jesse Ed Davis – Sting – Max Headroom – Ramones – Bob Rivers – Shawn Phillips – Kenny Vance & The Planotones – Elton Duck –  Leon Redbone & Dr John – Freddy Cannon – Pet Shop Boys – Weezer – Tom Waits & Peter Murphy – The Weeklings – Bobby Lloyd & The Skeletons – Mojo Nixon – Chris Issak – Doug & The Slugs – Bruce Cockburn – Little Charlie & The Nightcats – Smoking Popes – Talking Meds – Andrew Gold – Keb’ Mo – Riders In The Sky – The Band – Aimee Mann & Michael Penn – Jim Bachmann and the Hot Rod Zambonis – Chris Squire & Alan White – Loudon Wainwright III – Smithereens – Andrew Gold – Fab Four – The Killers – Glenwood Crowe – The Martells – Max Headroom – Freddy Cannon – Dan Frank & The True Believers – Jack Scott – Cheap Trick  – Lindsey Stirling  – Donovan – The Kennedys – Keith Richards – – The Tacoma Four – Simon & Garfunkel – Jerry Garcia Band – Billy Gibbons – Bob Peek Thing – The Bodeans – Payolas – Roy Wood & Wizzard – Graham Parker – Flaming Lips – Jorma Kaukonen – Smashing Pumpkins  – Darts – El Vez – Jan & Dean – Lowen & Navarro – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – The Rooks – Jigsaw Seen – The Reducers – The Cavedogs – Nick Lowe – The Geisels –  The Empty Hearts, and much more!

This idea for this show came while working at KSTM (The Storm) when I first discovered there were more Rock N Roll Christmas songs then I was aware of, as picked out by Jeff Parets, the program director of this legendary Phoenix area station. A Rock N Roll Christmas first aired in 1988 on Phoenix radio on KSLX and also KDKB and KZON (the Zone) and then back to KSLX and then on Radio Free Phoenix! Join Us at 6pm, this Christmas Eve through Christmas night at 12 midnight (AZ-Mountain Time).

Join us for The Angry Arizonan 1K Special on Radio Free Phoenix this Saturday, June 4th at 3pm, and an encore on Sunday, June 5th at 12 noon (AZ-PST). This 1 hour Retrospective features The Angry Arizonan himself, Ben Tyler, and celebrates 1,000 episodes of the Angry Arizonan. Ben is a renown Arizona playwright, actor and creator and voice of The Angry Arizonan, which has been airing on Radio Free Phoenix since February 22, 2016. The Angry Arizonan is take off of a feature that aired on KRIZ in Phoenix back in 1970 called Joe Nasty (which itself, was a parody of Paul Harvey). Ben’s version evolved out of a character called “The Angry American” that he played on the Wallace & Ladmo Show on KPHO TV, (Channel 5) in Phoenix in the 80’s. Ben was also member of the comedy troupe, The Ajo Repratory Company, which were regulars on the show for several year. So fasten your seat-belts for ‘The Angry Arizonan 1K” this Saturday & Sunday on Radio Free Phoenix!

Join us this Saturday, May 28th at 3pm and Sunday, May 29th at 12 pm (Arizona-Pacific time) for Radio Freedom, our Guest DJ show. Our guest host will be Suzanne Picerno of Indianapolis, Indiana. Suzanne is a hearing specialist and lost her hearing over a 30 year period of time and went deaf. She received cochlear implants 3 years ago and can now hear music again! Join Suzanne for her 15 favorite songs on Radio Freedom this Saturday at 3pm and Sunday at 12 noon on Radio Free Phoenix!

Suzanne is also an author and has written a children’s book called “Eddie the Elephant’s Magical Ear”, which will be released on August 28th. More Info HERE