RadioACTive

Thank you for your support of RadioACTive, KRCL's community affairs program for grassroots activists, community builders, punk rock farmers and DIY makers and musicians. Tune in weeknights at 6 as the RadioACTive team passes the mic so folks can share their stories and the causes they care about.

If you missed the show or want to listen again, visit the RadioACTive Archives or listen on demand. And catch audio clips from the show every day on RadioACTive Rewinds at 6:55 a.m., 10:55 a.m. & 2:55 p.m.

The views, opinions and statements expressed on RadioACTive are solely those of the respective speakers and do not represent or reflect the views, opinions or positions of the board, staff, and members of Listeners' Community Radio of Utah, nor its hosts, sponsors, and partners.

Executive Producer, Host: Lara Jones 

Producer, Host: Connor Estes

Producer, Host: Asha Pruitt

Volunteer Hosts:

GET INVOLVED: If you have a story idea for RadioACTive and a song to match, then let's hear it! Soundoff to RadioACTive with our mobile app. It's free wherever you get your apps. Under the menu options, you'll find "Talk to KRCL." Click on Sound off to RadioACTive and choose audio, video and/or photos to share with us. 

Email radioactive@krcl.org with your ideas or simply dedicate a song to someone in your life or a cause you support — either way, you may end up on the show. Or call 385-800-1889 and leave a voicemail with your story idea and song to match.

PLAY HOMEGROWN MUSIC ON THE SHOW: We have live homegrown music every Friday on the show and always looking for bands to play. Fill out our form!

HAVE YOUR BEATS USED ON RADIOACTIVE: We try to support all things local in all that we do and that means using locally produced music for our bed music and promos. If you're a beatmaker in Utah send over your work and we might use it behind the scenes on the show! Fill out our form!

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Queer History Corner: Joe Redburn

For Pride month, KRCL has collaborated with the Mildred Berryman Institute to bring you Utah Queer History each Monday and Thursday throughout June. These pieces dig into significant people and events from our state's queer history. In this piece, we learn about Joe Redburn, the father of queer organizing and community in Utah. He created the first gay bar in Salt Lake City, which would later, after many iterations, continue on as the Sun Trapp, which still has its doors open to the public today. 

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RadioACTive Pop! Summer Radiothon with Race Swami + Mariachi Fuego + Brazuca Band

Monday, June 8: Mariachi Fuego live in the studio to celebrate the upcoming 4th Annual Mariachi Festival. Musician Diego Brazuca of Brazuca Band with all the details for this weekend's Latino Arts Festival in Park City. Plus, Gifts for Good with Race Swami.

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Queer History Corner: Mildred Berryman

For Pride month, KRCL has collaborated with the Mildred Berryman Institute to bring you Utah Queer History segments each Monday and Thursday through June. The pieces dig into significant people and events from our state's queer history. With this piece, we learn about Mildred Berryman, the organization's namesake, and how she changed understanding of queerness in the natural world and broke ground for queer folks long before Stonewall. 

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Homegrown Music of Anthony Pena + True Tales of the Agrihood™ = Punk Rock Farmer Friday

Friday, June 5: Homegrown Music of Anthony Pena + True Tales of the Agrihood™ = Punk Rock Farmer Friday. Downtown SLC Farmers Market's Carly Gillespie stops by to give us a preview of opening day at Pioneer Park, Red Acre Center's Symbria Patterson gets us ready for the Gather Series, and Red Butte Garden's Josh Alba brings us Blooming with Pride. Plus, Queer History Corner and Skywatcher Leo T!

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