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Welcome Radio KEBF AND KZSR

By Michal Story on November 23, 2020 in News

Welcome Radio Station KEBF (97.3) in Morro Bay, California and KZSR 107.9 in Paso Robles and Atascadero, California.

Time slot for both: Sunday mornings at 10:00am and Sunday nights at 9:00pm

New – November

By Michal Story on November 22, 2020 in News

Joe Frank Selections from the 1990s.

The Kate Chronicles.

The original three-hour Iceland!

Welcome to three new radio stations airing Joe Frank shows in Rochester NY, Cape May NJ, and East Stroudsburg, PA

And, Thanksgiving Week: ALL Joe Frank Collections are 30% off!
*Only applies to: Joe Frank Everything Collection, and each Series Collections: NPR / WBAI, In the Dark, Work in Progress, and The Other Side

Use Code 2020collections30off at checkout

Welcome WESS in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

By Logan Rogers on September 25, 2020 in News

Welcome WESS in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Hosted by Brian Kaelin, Joe’s programs will air weekly starting this Saturday, September 26th at 7:00pm. Tune in for the online simulcast – or on your local radio dial at 90.3 FM.

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Reviews of Joe’s Work

"Frank wanders deeply into the unconscious, producing Dionysian stories with a fairy-tale intensity whose effect is often funny, disturbing and deeply memorable."

Salon Magazine

"Joe Frank's often bizarre scenarios for the mind are decidedly offbeat radio fare...part surreal satire, part bizarre meditation, part fever dream."

Los Angeles Daily News

"[Joe Frank is] the most imaginative, literate monologist in radio today... If a microphone could capture the nether recesses of the modern psyche, it would sound like Frank's absurd comical excursions: Radio Vertigo."

The Village Voice

"Frank has created a series of dead-pan radio monologues so sharp and intelligent that during the quiet bits you can almost hear God taking notes."

The UK Guardian

"[Frank] travels in the emotional landscape of Bergman and Fellini; there's a tension and sense of mystery halfway between Kafka and Chandler... and a satiric edge worthy of Firesign Theatre and Woody Allen... No one else in radio is doing what Frank does."

The Washington Post

"To me, he's what radio is really for... his show makes me think he's getting to some great truth... so completely captivating and just unlike anything else."

David Sedaris, writer

"Joe Frank is a singular voice in radio. What he has done is hypnotic, psychotic, neurotic, sad, terrifying, and some of the funniest stuff I have ever heard anywhere. I can't think of another radio performer who has come close to achieving this kind of alchemy."

Charlie Kaufman, filmmaker

"Mixing bizarre monologues, multi-sequenced dramatic vignettes and mock-solemn critiques, [Joe Frank's work] is both sophisticated and surreal. A sizable cult has been growing around Frank...a rare radio talent."

The Village Voice

"[Joe Frank] is one of the great, original radio performers. He's created a sound and style for himself - a complete aesthetic that's entirely his own. I first heard him when I was 19 and it changed everything for me. His work demonstrated the intensity and emotion that the medium is capable of; ingenious…fantastic."

Ira Glass, This American Life

"The perfect Joe Frank experience is driving down an unfamiliar highway alone at night. You turn on your radio and are greeted by a lush, resonant voice that lulls you into a seemingly simple tale of love: a man at an airport saying goodbye to his wife over the phone, which abruptly turns into a vision of betrayal, alienation and death - often from obscure disease - all brought about by some profound personal failing, which is redeemed at the last moment by a nearly transcendent moment of joy."

Salon