Meet the Crew

It takes a dedicated crew to run this ship. We're proud of what we do and hope you'll join us!

Admins

Dan Crall

Station Manager / Program Director / DJ Coordinator / Board President

Corvallis resident Dan Crall is a broadcast veteran, with nearly 10 years experience in public radio, and over 20 years in the voice over industry.  He earned his bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications – Audio Production from Ball State University.  He has a passion for audio production, creating radio programs and podcasts, exploring many genres of music, progressive and green politics, and community building.

JC with open arms at an event.

Jennifer Cassidy

The “OG” Volunteer / VP of Community Airways Board of Directors / DJ / Events Lead / Merch Coordinator

Jennifer has been involved in music throughout her life; playing instruments, attending concerts, and listening to the radio! She is currently the VP of the Community Airwaves Board of Directors and hosts two shows on KORC, The Lost KORC and Saturday Market Playlist.

Ash Terry

Treasurer

Ashley is president of Uphill Media, Inc and has been volunteering time and resources to numerous groups and causes over the years. Ash is a professional videographer and lends his many skills to UHM and KORC for live event production and editing.

DJs

DJ Angel against a red backdrop

DJ Angel

Angels of KORC

DJ Angel (also known as Solomon the KORC Kid) is the host of “Angels of KORC” and a regular music contributor to KORC. He likes all sorts of music including trap, bass, hip hop, and various other genres heard on KORC. He is KORC’s youngest volunteer. When he’s in the mood, he likes to make short announcements on the air.

Augie West smiling at the beach

Augie West

Chasing My Tail
4 PM Mondays, Encores 11 AM Saturdays

Augie is a retired teacher and in his youth worked for a record distributor and a guitar and drum company. He is a long time music fan and has attended hundreds of concerts. Augie hopes to use that experience to share music with you. Radio has always been his friend- from the top 40 AM stations  of the late 50s and early 60s to the beginnings of freeform FM radio.  This was the place to learn the new songs, groups, and singers of the day and to groove to the favorites he already knew. Augie’s mission is  to turn you on to great music like the freeform FM DJs of the early 70s turned him onto great music.

Bobby B

All Cows Eat Grass
Sundays 8 PM, Encores Wednesdays 8 PM

BB’s radio roots are in college radio. ACEG showcases new and old indie/alternative rock as well as any genre that fits the mood of the week.

Explorin' Loren

Prog Wild
5 PM Wednesdays, Encores 10 AM Sundays

Loren hosts the weekly music show Prog Wild, featuring progressive music from all times and places. Email the station manager for requests and suggestions!

While you’ll hear plenty of “classic” prog-rock of the 1970s, Prog Wild is not limited this genre. There are many innovative styles of music that have fused genres to create new sounds and dynamics –– to “progress” the music beyond the popular or acceptable forms of the time!

Along with his KORC duties, Loren plays with Corvallis bands Strange Rotation and Distinguished Gentlemen. Otherwise he is probably writing his thesis in archaeology, gardening, making yogurt & cheese, or explorin’ the territory.

GalexC

Adventures on the Dragonfly Pinky Toe
11 PM Sundays, Encores 10 PM Wednesdays

Captain GalexC leads our intrepid crew on an imagination vessel, The Dragonfly Pinkytoe. Adventures on the Dragonfly Pinkytoe is a variety show/culture jam. Some weeks it is a steaming pile of experimentation, other weeks obscenely “normal”.

 

AOTDP roster:

 
• Xander Macgluir, the goblin: drum and bass, swear jars, chop jobs
• Lexon Wenruc, the scholar: OMPST’s, adult contemporary, experimental hip-hop. modern classical, drum and bass/jungle
• Ray (in the bay) Qualle-la: blue collar weirdness, booty beats, experimetal, drum and bass/jungle

• Ale’ (in the galley) Starr: experimental pop, speed core, ambient chill, drum and bass/jungle
• Tiny Ursus: country, bluegrass, blues from all over the world.

Everyone on the crew loves mashups.

 

Captain GalexC, aka Alex Curnew, has lived in Corvallis since 2013 and plays with Corvallis band Strange Rotation. Captain GalexC was also the Space Neighbors percussionist for several years.

The Captain and Xander are responsible for  engineering and leading the Willamette Valley mini marching band (The Friendly Space Goblin Joyzchestra )

The crew of The Dragonfly Pinkytoe were also responsible for the existence of Project Aisle Productions Experimental Puppet Show,

Adventures On The Dragonfly Pinkytoe reserves the Aight to be weird and wonderful, or bland and tasteless, depending on the waxing and/or waning of the Noom.

 
 
 
 

DJ Glowcat

Glowcat’s Scratchbox
1 PM Thursdays, Encores 2 PM Saturdays

Glowcat has been heavily involved in the DJing community in Corvallis for the past 2+ years operating shows, performing, and workshopping. Her show, Glowcat’s Scratchbox, showcases mixes from DJs from all over Oregon. Glowcat’s own mixes are a blend of indie dance, tech house, diva house, hip house, nu-disco, and UK garage. In addition to her work at KORC, Glowcat was the co-host of the Working DJs Radio Show on KBVR alongside DJ Woods and was the co-runner of DJ Spotlight alongside Eveu from 2022-2024. You can catch her live shows periodically at DJ Spotlight at Bombs Away or at Pulse Night at Angry Beaver.

If you are an Oregon DJ and would like to be on Scratchbox, please contact Glowcat at: korc@djglowcat.com

James "Old Man" Winther

Return From Chaos
9 PM Thursdays, Encores 10 PM Saturdays

Corvallis local DJ James Winther brings death metal and “weird other music” to KORC with, “Return From Chaos.”

Old Man Winther had been a dumb metalhead since trading a bag of Triscuits for a copy of Kill ’em All back in the mid 90s. He is delighted to host “Return from Chaos” on K-Orc 105.9 so as to make you listen to his favorite death and black metal songs with a smattering of jazz, industrial , goth rock, odd classical, nordic folk, along with a side dish of shameless self-spotlighting of his own past/current bands and the sporadic Nintendo song, Beatles remix, or paranormal call-in guest.

J Nortz

Hit Hard To Leftfield
8 PM Saturdays, Encores 10 PM Tuesdays

I’m a Corvallis musician, greenhouse enthusiast, and record collector. The music played on HHTL is lifted almost exclusively from this collection of records, which includes jazz, free and spiritual jazz, experimental, world, Kosmiche, psychedelic, Italian soundtrack, and otherwise leftfield music. I have a huge passion for recorded sound, and hope to endlessly pursue and expand my knowledge and understanding of it. Sharing and connecting with interested folks like you makes it all the better!! Get in touch with me if you want to chat records, music, a song you heard on the show, anything!

IG: @Hit_Hard_To_Leftfield

Come with open minds and ears, and see ya out there!

Lava Lamp Larry

Retro Lounge
12 PM Saturdays, Encores 7 PM Mondays

Lava Lamp Larry is the host of the Retro Lounge, heard every Saturday at noon and Monday at 6 pm.

As a young man he was badly bitten by the rock’n roll bug and has never recovered.

Therapy includes rocking the 105.9 spot and playing guitar in Corvallis bands The Easy Targets and Summer of Love.

DJ Lunitin

Luni Tunes
7 PM Tuesdays, Encores 2 PM Thursdays

After coming down from the mountains to live near the sea, DJ Lunitin commonly played shows around the PNW in the early 2000s until stepping away for various reasons. After unpacking the turntables and record collection during the pandemic and getting back in touch with the local scene, DJ Lunitin joined up with KORC and has been bringing their eclectic collection of electronic music to the airwaves on the show Luni Tunes every Tuesday at 7PM and Thursday at 2PM.

IG: @djlunitin

Mary Lou Hepner at the farmer's market

Mary Lou Heppner

The Outsider Hour

Mary Lou hosts The Outsider Hour, heard only occasionally on KORC, and does station announcements at random times. Mary Lou is the proud grandmother of 4 grandkids, and currently lives with her lump of a husband, former bluesman and current burden-deluxe, Bullfrog HeppnerMary Lou brings a hint of sass and a whole lotta pizazz, and presents only the finest in recorded Outsider music. 

Watercolor of purple mermaid hair with shells.

DJ Mermaid Hair

Pau Hana Time
4 PM Wednesdays, Encores 4 PM Sundays

DJ Mermaid Hair was born in the waters of the Pacific Ocean. After many travels between California and Hawaii, she swam all the way to the Oregon coast and followed the rivers to Corvallis, Oregon. She spends her time on land immersed in the wine world and playing reggae music and more on KORC FM.

MOS FET

Blinx
7 PM Fridays, Encores 7 PM Wednesdays

Blinx is a forward-minded hourly show and eponymous independent record label focusing on tasty picks from the history of dance music with host, Brandon Richardson aka DJ MOS FET (metal-oxide-semiconductor-field-effects-transistor), a lifelong obsessed-listener and avid collector. Inspired by the ethos of British pirate radio, each show offers a fervent, globetrotting mixture of different regional club styles in a fun variety of tempos and flavour.

Illustration of monkey in sunglasses with a cigarette and big hair.

MWCK

Goose Bumps
8 PM Fridays, Encores 4 AM Mondays

I’m MWCK (Monkey With Car Keys) the host of Goose Bumps on KORC. I always wanted to be a DJ but wasn’t inspired by any bands or genres. A friend in La Honda turned me on to Goose in 2023…now I’m diving into the Jam Band scene with groups like Goose including, Dogs in a Pile, Dopapod, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, and Spafford. Join me for the jams Fridays and Mondays. Light it up… urn it up…keep it Ted. ~ MWCK

Phil4Ril

4Ril 4TheRadio
10 PM Thursdays with New Episode 11 PM Saturdays

Tired of the same hip-hop songs on mainstream radio? Then listen and learn somethin’. 4Ril 4TheRadio, hosted by me, Phil 4Ril, is an uncut (yes, swear words and everything) old-school hip-hop mix. 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.  I play songs from artists that don’t get enough radio play as well as artists that you might be familiar with, but not the same two songs you’re used to hearing. I play hip-hop from west coast, east coast, down south, midwest, overseas, and even local talent. I’m not only a DJ, but also a hip-hop artist. I might premiere some new music of mine or maybe do an exclusive freestyle just for the show. Some nites I mite do more DJ mixing. You never know what you’re gonna get on 4Ril 4TheRadio; underground hip-hop, underrated hits, remixes, live performances, mixtape freestyles, exclusive blends & more… Just know its gonna be 4Ril.

2 new episodes every week – no replay! So tune in or miss out!

Saint Francis

Church in the Woods
7 PM Saturdays, Encores 3 AM Tuesdays

Saint Francis is a veteran of KBVR Corvallis (then known as DJOK), who joined KORC in late 2022. Now, as then, he hosts a weekly mix show featuring the best electronic music from the dawn of house and techno up through this present era of our global underground. After nearly a decade in Oregon, he has returned to his beloved Maine woods. From the evergreen glades, naked granite peaks, and rocky fractal shores of the Pine Tree State, Saint Francis communes with the birds, beasts, and bees; flowers, fish, and trees, keeping his nearly symmetrical ears alive to the tempestuous tones drifting in off the cold Atlantic Tradewinds, aetheric groans from the francophone north, and telluric thumps tumbling down the Great Divide. By the magic of modern telecommunications, he brings this fresh catch to you, dear listener, only on 105.9 FM KORC, Corn Valley, every Saturday at 7 PM.

Sean of Racing Turtles standing in an artsy room.

Sean

Racing Turtles
9 PM Fridays, Encores 3 PM Mondays

A punk at heart, collecting music since the early 90’s. Racing Turtles is an indie rock show that loves 60’s pop, drum beats, LoFi, jazz, dream pop, shoegaze and all the best altar’d state sounds. You can party with us every Friday from 9-10pm or catch the encore Mondays from 3-4pm. Email the show RacingTurtles.KORC@gmail.com for set list and birthday shout-outs.
Cheers Buddies

Trevor Heald

Nerdmode: Engage! 
8 PM Thursdays

Trevor Heald is the host of Nerdmode: Engage! airing at 20:00 on Thursdays. The show is primarily a music show but, as I have time, I intend to include interviews and guests. The music is of no particular genre, just stuff I genuinely enjoy and think you might as well.
 
I also manage a few of our syndicated shows: Coast Range Radio, Live on KEXP, The Retro Cocktail Hour, Under the Needle, and Earthdate.
Picture of John "Wesley" Myers by his model train.

John "Wesley" Myers

KORC Classical Hour
1 PM Fridays, Encores 11 PM Wednesdays

Wesley has a profound love of nearly all genres of music, but classical tops the list. He was a classical PGM DJ at his college radio station nearly 50 years ago. That fueled the interest in all types of classical from Baroque to modern. A 25 year career in commercial radio and TV, then 21 years in media services at OSU has led Wesley to KORC radio, with fun times ahead. Other passions are model railroading, tennis, and 9 grandchildren.

Support

Scott Gilbert

FM Technical Lead

Bio coming soon.

Trevor Sehrer

News Anchor / App Developer / Board Member

Trevor helps with station engineering and is passionate about helping DJs sound their best. He is married to DJ Glowcat.

Holly M.L. Shutta

Board Secretary / Fundraising Committee Member

Holly has a long history of community organizing and activism. She coordinates local volunteers, events and merchandise for KORC.

Charles Maughan

Board Member

Charles became involved in community organizing with the 2016 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders. He then went on to co-found Our Revolution – Corvallis Allies (ORCA), a local chapter of the national Our Revolution organization. Charles continues to focus on local issues through activism and politics. He believes that through civic engagement progress can be made towards a thriving equitable community.