Medicine Ball Caravan on KRVS

Music programming with news and interviews on local arts and events, CD and concert ticket giveaways and live in-studio performances. BROADcasting is the operative word here. You can hear just about any form of music on the program ranging from Old-Timey and Bluegrass to classic and contemporary songwriters, Pop, Blues, Soul, Rock, Jazz, Poetry and the Avant Garde.

Wrapping up this week's worth of MEDICINE BALL CARAVAN broadcasts (11am-noon Central Standard on 88.7FM locally orwww.krvs.org) with the newest by Redd Kross, Patti Smith, Wild Flag, Lee Renaldo w/ J. Mascis, The Step Kids, Fights and imagineIAM. Also: classics by The Damned, Throbbing Gristle, Pink Floyd and solo Syd Barrett.

Wednesday's MEDICINE BALL CARAVAN (11am-noon Central Standard on 88.7FM or www.krvs.org) brings on the newest releases by Citizen Cope, Slightly Stoopid, Jimmy Cliff, Grady Champion, Anders Osborne, Bas Clas, Corey Ledet and Lost Bayou Ramblers. Also: classics by Smith, Traffic and Guitar Gable 

Tuesday's MEDICINE BALL CARAVAN rocks the late morning off with the sounds of King Tuff, Black Box Revelation, Those Darlins, The Black Keys and MC5. Also: we go Space Crazy with classic tracks by David Bowie, The B-52s, Yes, Raymond Scott, Lucia Pamela, Frank Sinatra and Sun Ra.

Monday's edition of THE MEDICINE BALL CARAVAN bids a farewell to local group, The Howdies. Also: new and recent issues from Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, The Mercy Brothers, Little Hurricane, Crysta Bell and Nick Waterhouse. Also: some Vietnam, Bob Dylan, Lizz Wright, Rival Sons and Kings Go Forth.