KFAI radio program Desert Islands is celebrating it's 200th Episode every Wednesday in June at Palmers! Doc, aka Theyself + guests each one

About this event

Desert Islands is a weekly program that airs every Wednesday from 10-NOON (CST) hosted by Doc on KFAI. Each week the playlist is a mixtape based on their guests' top 10, all time favorite, desert island records. KFAI'S DESERT ISLANDS

On June 1 Desert Islands will hit 200 episodes and to celebrate Doc's birth month they're gonna curate a night of music from 7-10pm every Wednesday night in June featuring former guests of the show.

Theyself~a panic attack you can dance to!

Druzy Rose~Soulful, fun, pop, party band!

Gabriel Rodreick grew up playing the piano in his south Minneapolis home — for eleven years, he told me, until a C5 spinal injury he incurred a little over eleven years ago paralyzed him from the armpits down and severely limited the mobility in his hands. Three years post-injury, he entered the music world again, singing in the seven-piece funk band Treading North. A little over a year ago, Rodreick found a way to return to the instrument he grew up playing: by using the eraser of a pencil affixed to his wrist brace.

As Freaque, the moniker for his solo work, Rodreick explained that he's making the kind of music he's always aspired to make: a kind of stripped-down folk, centered on storytelling, and sensitive to the darker side of human experience. It's a sound he's coined "dirt folk." "Post-injury, I tend towards darkness," Roreick said, after citing Tom Waits as a major influence. "Not in a depressive or negative way — I try to shine a little light on the darkness; it's always there, and it's within all of us."

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