Howard Mintz

New music. Emerging artists. No boundaries. Served fresh every weeknight, 8-10pm.

KCRW's signature music program features new releases, live performances, and artist interviews hosted by Anthony Valadez & Novena Carmel.

When Aric Allen was 21, he lived in a desolate mountain cabin for 10 weeks. There he planned to write a novel, but instead he learned how to be alone.

Director Hwang Dong-hyuk didn’t expect the unprecedented global success of “Squid Game.” Now season two is on its way.

Captain Planet puts us on the inside track, Daniel Avery, HAAi, and Kelly Lee Owens form a superteam of heady techno producers, Tame Impala backs Donna Summer, and more.

A new wave of COVID infections arriving in late spring has caught many experts off guard. And nobody was expecting an outbreak of monkeypox.

Carlos Niño and Dexter Story are part of the hearty SoCal music creatives working together and separately to shape spiritually-healing, mind-elevating music.

A new book documents the extent to which American prosperity is founded on immigration—and raises questions about how we treat immigrants today.

Dancers at a North Hollywood strip club say owners and security guards don’t keep them safe. What do they want workplace safety to look like?