DJs
DJ J. Trashville & the Noise Committee
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From The Curb to the Streets
Every First and Third Wednesday at 2:00 pm
Bio
DJ J. Trashville is a musical Scavenger, Brass band trombonist and Puppeteer and has been blessed with brilliant friends who have shared so much music with them and now they get to share it with the Passenger Radio community. Much of Trashville’s record collection has been found on the curbs, dusty dollar bins and in old barns, half eaten by mice around American Cities. “From the Curb to the Streets” radio show focuses on street music from around the world, spliced in with old records we want to hear in the streets to keep us in the struggle to find the world we are looking for in the cracks of this crumbling empire.
Autumn Maddox
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The Sober Shaman
Every Second and Fourth Wednesday at 2:00 pm
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As a participant in spiritual sober community, Autumn knows the impact of sound for healing. She provides service by performing crystal sound bowl concerts, hosting sober open mic night, and leading drum circles, all done in sovereignty and sobriety. Autumn is a pet mom of 2 cats, 2 snakes, 3 geckos, and a guinea pig. In her spare time, she loves to enjoy nature, travel, knit, and create by writing poetry or stories, and singing and playing guitar.
Adam G. Taub
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Let’s See What Happens
Every Saturday at 6:00 pm
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Adam was born in the 20th century. He lives somewhere in Michigan. He sits in a chair and listens to records when he’s at home.
Jean Shorts
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Don't Think I've Forgotten: Lost Sounds, Global Histories
Every Fourth Sunday at 3:00 pm
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Jean Shorts is a writer, bookstore owner, and dog aficionado who believes in the power of storytelling to preserve what history tries to bury. Inspired by their family’s Cambodian diaspora and shaped by life in Stockton, California; Chicago; and Detroit, they explore how memory and music help us survive, resist, and connect. With a background in community organizing and social justice, Jean brings care and curiosity to every story they share. As host of Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten on Passenger Radio, they trace global music histories—sounds nearly lost to displacement, censorship, colonization, or simply time. The show’s first episode begins with 1960s/1970s Cambodian rock and roll, eventually stretching outward to other cultures, exploring voices and rhythms that still echo across generations from different parts of the world. Jean is currently on the path to becoming an archivist, committed to safeguarding the cultural memory that lives in songs, stories, and the spaces we hold for one another.
Sunshine
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The Witchual Hour
Every Friday at 2:00 pm
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Sunshine, known as The Pink-Haired Sober Witch, is a trailblazing Psychic Medium, Soul Healer, and High Priestess on a mission to help witches in recovery reclaim their magick and rise into purpose. Music played a powerful role in her own healing journey. In early sobriety, she discovered the transformative power of sound, using lyrics like spells and songs like rituals. That sacred rhythm of recovery now pulses through every episode of The Witchual Hour. Sunshine is the visionary behind Illuminate: The Unschool of Sober Witchcraft, the Sober Witch Life mobile app, and the first-of-its-kind book Sober Witch Life: A Magickal Guide to Recovery. She also hosts two beloved podcasts, The Sober Witch Life and The Deepest Spirituality Podcast, and is a sought-after guest on shows exploring spirituality, witchcraft, and recovery. Through raw storytelling, tarot, ritual, and a carefully conjured playlist, Sunshine creates sacred space on the airwaves where music becomes magick and healing becomes collective.
Stephen Palmer
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Pictures Of A City
Every First and Third Friday at 6:00 pm
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Stephen Palmer is a Detroit-based musician who has been making guitar faces in various bands for more than 30 years. He currently plays with The High Strung and DBO. His wife, Ellen, and son, Arthur, share a deep disdain for progressive rock—though there’s a chance Arthur might come around.
Peoples Presents
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Peoples Presents
Every First Thursday at 12:00 pm
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From the heart of Detroit's Eastern Market comes a monthly journey through the Motor City's vast musical landscape. The crew from Peoples Records—the legendary record store known for its 100,000+ deep collection of soul, jazz, funk, and Detroit techno—bring their collective encyclopedic knowledge and passion to Passenger Radio. Expect crate-digger discoveries spanning the 1920s to the present, deep cuts from Detroit's legendary music scene, international rarities, and stories behind the records. Each month, different voices from the Peoples family share their finds, from obscure 45s to essential LPs, reflecting the same diverse, welcoming spirit that's made their shop an international destination for music lovers.
Sophia Elvy
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Cool Food
Every Third Thursday at 4:00 pm
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Sophia Elvy is a tattooer from Detroit that also really likes music. She wants to know why we make what we make and love what we love. Does the compulsion towards creativity come from what we consume?
Renalien
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Renalien's Abduction Hour
Every Fourth Friday at 6:00 pm
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Renee is an interdisciplinary artist creating both individually and collaboratively in Detroit. She has been a video jockey for many music/club/queer events in Detroit including Femmedom and it’s sister event Siren. She frequently works with local performance ensemble's The Hinterlands and A Host of People and helps run Monster Parade, a folk puppetry spectacle performance, with fellow collaborator Monty Etzcorn. Renee is an art advisor at the Progressive Art Studio Collective, a Wayne County studio collective supporting artists with disabilities, and a Caretaker for local art environment Hamtramck Disneyland. Petey is a hyper colored TupperWare collector, second hand fashions savant, left field audio custodian, sound collage, electronics hobbyist, pedal pusher, tape loop manipulator, drum machine programmer, prepared vinyl/anti-record scratch man, noise enthusiast.
Ewolf
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Radio Ewolf
Every Tuesday at 2:00 pm
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Spiritually, Radio Ewolf begins where Ewolf’s favorite comic strip ended, when Calvin said to Hobbes “Let’s go exploring!” The front-of-the-camera-avoidant Ewolf was that kid who listened to the radio under the covers when he was supposed to be sleeping - falling asleep to it, waking up to it, and during one job interview asked if it would be okay if he listened to the radio while he worked (he still got the job!). Over the years, Ewolf has played in bands, hung out with bands, let bands practice in his basement, had bands sleeping in every nook and cranny of his house, photographed piles of bands, and even cooked meals for bands, all to keep him close to his biggest passion: MUSIC! (okay, and free t-shirts) You should know that he considers Get the Knack to be one of the finest albums ever recorded, and will work tirelessly to convert non-believers. Fender has generously lent his own publicity photo for use in the absence of a proper photo of the guy who feeds him.
Adam Stanfel
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Curio Cabinet
Every Wednesday at 7:00 pm
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With an occasional focus on — but not exclusive to — Detroit and/or Michigan, this obsessive, compulsive, and occasionally hyperactive collector, nerd, book reader, amateur historian, estate / garage sale, and People's Records denizen slices, dices, and genrefies 30 years of record collecting, a decade of Shazaming, and a lifetime of dreaming into hour-long segments meant to fulfill the void that old school mixtapes once filled. Adam started out dj'ing '90s R&B at his after-school junior-high dance-party socials, and has never lost his excitement for sharing music he loves. He is a long-time participant and current resident dj with the Motor City Soul Club. Apropos, listeners can expect lots of nuanced deep-dives into Blues, R&B, Soul, Gospel, Funk, and Modern sounds, but a radio spot offers opportunities to explore other veins of interest including Rock and Roll in all its forms to Colombian Cumbia, Vintage Arabic sounds, jazz and early Americana including Acoustic Blues, Bluegrass, Country and occasional weirdo sounds that don't fit anywhere in between.
Fred Thomas & Zoe Lask
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All The Tired Horses
Every Fourth Sunday at 6:00 pm
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Friends Zoe Lask and Fred Thomas are familiar faces from the greater Detroit music and literature scenes, and they come together to banter ridiculously while trading off songs that have no business coexisting in the same show. Expect confusion, dissonance, bliss, and laughter.