35 Best California Music Podcasts

1. California Love

California Love is a blend of memoir, pop culture analysis and oral history. The newest season, K-pop Dreaming, is about the rise and history of K-pop in the United States, as told from the point-of-view of the Korean diaspora in Los Angeles. Host Vivian Yoon takes listeners on a journey from K-pop's origins in Korean trot music and American presence in post-war South Korea to the 1992 LA Uprising and the booming global popularity of K-pop in the present day, all juxtaposed against Yoon's own coming-of-age as a second generation immigrant in Los Angeles, struggling to fit in and come to terms with her own identity. The series premieres on February 23rd.In the first season Walter Thompson-Hernández was inspired by Tupac and Dr. Dre's 'California Love'- a love letter and anthem for a generation. Walter invites listeners to join him in his family home, on horseback through the streets of Compton, and up into the sky to examine belonging.
Podcast omny.fm
Email ****@laist.com
Apple Rating 4.2 / 5Facebook Followers 17Twitter Followers 391Instagram Followers 59.7K Frequency 3 episodes / month Avg Length 32 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. Deeper Roots Radio Podcast

A walk through the last century of America's roots music, the podcasts for Deeper Roots come to you from productions at two Northern California community radio stations.
Podcast podomatic.com
Host Dave Stroud
Email ****@deeperrootsradio.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 309Twitter Followers 36 Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 119 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

3. The Dean Von Music Podcast

Listen to the untold story of Rock Musician Dean Von who in over 40 years has never told the real story of what went on behind the scenes while playing nightclubs and hanging out with his famous rock and roll buddies. This podcast series gets 'up close and personal' with these untold stories of when Rock Band Poison opened up for Danger in Azusa, California back when nobody even knew who Poison was, listen to the advice that Dean gave to Bret Michaels that night back stage to help Bret lead the band to success in LA, also listen to the story about High School Friend, Tom Bass (AKA) Tommy Lee -
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Host Dean Von
Email ****@deanvonmusic.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Twitter Followers 64 Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 39 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

4. Luminary Sounds

Luminary Sounds is a Syndicate Radio Broadcast dedicated to highlighting emerging music artists. Based in Southern California, Luminary Sounds transitioned from podcast to radio. The cutting edge show blends independent artists with established artists, thus giving Independents a chance to be discovered.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Host Missy
Email ****@99threefm.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 235Twitter Followers 82Instagram Followers 2.6K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 88 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

5. Rapidly Rotating Records

Glenn Robison's weekly, hour-long radio program of 'toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s' broadcast Sunday evenings at 6 on KISL 88.7 FM, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California.
Podcast glennrobison.com
Host Glenn Robison
Email ****@glennrobison.com
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Facebook Followers 789Twitter Followers 13Instagram Followers 357 Frequency 4 episodes / month Avg Length 60 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

6. Critical Mixes

Critical value (Justin B) is a curator of fine melodic progressive house and trance tunes. Originally from Southern California, he got his start DJing in the Los Angeles music scene in 2001. Growing up in a Lebanese-American family, music was always an integral part of his life. His first gigs were in dimly lit chill-out spaces of the back rooms of clubs. He later co-produced a 'UK-style' queer weekly at a nightclub in L.A. Today, Critical Value wants to take you on a sonic journey through the deeper and darker parts of progressive house and progressive trance tunes.
Podcast soundcloud.com
Email ****@criticalvaluemusic.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 76 Frequency 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 78 min Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

7. LV2MKRT

Scott Worthington and Christopher Burns love to make art and share it with you. A weekly(ish) podcast of improvised music for double bass and electronics. Bootlegs of duos performed between Pennsylvania and California using quacktrip.
Podcast scottworthington.com
Host Scott Worthington
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5 Frequency 1 episode / day Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

8. Mixing Music

Mixing Music is a podcast hosted by mix engineer, Dee Kei and Lu Moreno. A show about mixing techniques, audio production, mindsets, business advice, and all things Dee Kei & Lu have learned and will continue to learn through their music careers.The Mixing Music Podcast also covers topics like plugins, DAWs, mixing engineers, mastering engineers, producers, and even tips and tricks for Pro Tools, Logic, FL Studios, Ableton, Studio One, Cubase, and more.
Podcast deekeimixes.com
Host Dee Kei
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Twitter Followers 550Instagram Followers 1.3K Frequency 27 episodes / year Avg Length 46 min Since Jun 2019 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

9. B.P.M. Session Podcast

Former Los Angeles California Radio Show turned Podcast. Our first shows posted here where originally broadcast Saturdays @ 12am A Dance mix designed to make you move! Dance, House, Electro and more! The latest shows are full length mix's! Hosted by DJ Strange Love Honerable mention to our Co-host/E.P. Rene Garzona. Make Your Own Moves! The BPM Station is here!!! Dance. Music. Streaming Radio from Los Angeles California. Listen now.
Podcast podomatic.com
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 7.5K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 67 min Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

10. Stereo Embers: The Podcast

Hosted by Alex Green, Stereo Embers: The Podcast is a weekly podcast airing exclusively on Bombshell Radio that features interviews with musicians, authors, artists and actors talking about the current creative moment in their lives. A professor at St. Mary's College of California, Alex is the Editor-In-Chief of Stereo Embers Magazine, the author of five books and has served as a Speaker/Moderator for LitQuake, Yahoo!, The Bay Area Book Festival, A Great Good Place For Books, Green Apple Books, and The St. Mary's College Of California MFA Reading Series.
Podcast soundcloud.com
Host Alex Green
Email ****@stereoembersmagazine.com
Facebook Followers 5KTwitter Followers 1.5KInstagram Followers 682 Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 72 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

11. The SoCal Sound Podcasts

The SoCal Sound is all about music discovery. We are dedicated to curating a blend of established, emerging, and diverse artists, including music that is new, deep, local. As a public, member-supported audio service with broadcast and digital distribution, we embrace the independence our non-profit status affords us by super-serving Southern California with listeners worldwide. We put our community of constituents and supporters first, including listeners, members, artists, sponsors, students, and the universities we serve.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Email ****@885fm.org
Facebook Followers 78.8KTwitter Followers 8.4KInstagram Followers 13.5K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 30 min Listen on Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

12. The Metallica Report

Keep up with all things Metallica by going straight to the source. Now you can get your news directly from those entrenched in the band's own Northern California headquarters. This weekly report is hosted by Steffan Chirazi and Renée Richardson, two members of the Metallica Camp.Steffan is a long-time rock scribe and editor of the band's online mag, So What!, whose days covering Metallica began in the 1980s with the British music magazines Sounds and Kerrang! Renée is the Director of Philanthropy for the band's foundation, All Within My Hands, and also has a storied background in music.
Podcast metallica.com
Email ****@metclub.com
Facebook Followers 36.6MTwitter Followers 6.2MInstagram Followers 11.1M Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 20 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

13. Music Makers San Diego

'Music Makers San Diego' is an interview & performance podcast hosted by long-time radio personality, Gary Lee. It shines the light on San Diego-area songwriters & their music with a new guest each week. Each guest also gets to perform three of their original songs during the conversation. 'Music Makers San Diego' is recorded at Amplified Studios in Carlsbad.
Podcast amplified-radio.simplecast.com
Email ****@amplifiedstudios.com
Facebook Followers 186Twitter Followers 18Instagram Followers 1.1K Frequency 4 episodes / month Avg Length 34 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

14. Tales from the Green Room

Welcome to Tales from the Green Room - Backstage conversations from popular music venues around the country curated by Mount Tam Media.Host Dennis Strazulo and Mount Tam Media founder, Tami Larson.The roster of artists that have crowded onto the club's little stages, first at the original Sweetwater location two blocks away, and now at the new location which opened in 2013, reads like a Who's Who of roots & rock music. Mount Tam Media has been granted special access to Sweetwater's green room during the venue's 50th anniversary year to interview musicians, photographers, managers.
Podcast podcasts.apple.com
Host Danica Remy
Email ****@mttammedia.com
Facebook Followers 207Instagram Followers 1.1K Frequency 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 51 min Listen on Spotify Play Get Email Contact

15. ShoreCuts Podcast

With keen musician sensibilities, California DJ Sandy Shore has been spinning music on radio for more than four decades on popular stations in Monterey, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. With a passion for jazz and technology she founded the Internet's first jazz radio station, SmoothJazz.com Global Radio in 2000. SHORE CUTS is the music innovator's first Podcast, providing a unique opportunity for enthusiasts to hear intimate details about the creative process involved in their favorite recording artist's latest releases, as Shore gets inside the heads and studios of world-class musicians.
Podcast soundcloud.com
Email ****@smoothjazz.com
Facebook Followers 88.2KTwitter Followers 13.1KInstagram Followers 7K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 34 min Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact

16. #FollowTheMusica

Daniel (DJ LF) aka The 'Latin Flavor' was born in Palm Springs, California and raised with'n the Coachella Valley, home of the famed 'Coachella Festival'.DJ LF is known as one of the most revered and influential DJ'S in the Palm Springs / Coachella DJ / Nightclub scene.There he grew up with a major interest and passion for music, and his drive to be an outstanding mixer, his creative music production outlook, and his passion for an eclectic style in turn, has landed him nominations by various Coachella Valley Based Magazines.
Podcast soundcloud.com
Host Daniel DJ LF
Email ****@live.com
Facebook Followers 2.6K Frequency 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 43 min Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact

17. Other Minds Podcast

The Other Minds Podcast features interviews with some of today's leading composers and performers of new and experimental music. The podcast is produced by Other Minds in San Francisco, which hosts concerts, a record label, a weekly radio program, an archive, and a yearly festival of contemporary music. Season 2 of the podcast features interviews hosted by Joseph Bohigian with the composers featured on our 27th Festival, which will be held on November 14-19, 2023 at the Taube Atrium Theater and Gray Area in San Francisco, California.
Podcast otherminds.org
Email ****@otherminds.org
Facebook Followers 2.6KTwitter Followers 1.6KInstagram Followers 1.4K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 37 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

18. Agile Vocalist

More images Agile Vocalist is a podcast and blog about sound and the performing arts with a California connection. Its episodes explore artist careers in sound as well as music history, inspiration, performance, and ways of thinking differently about the role of sound in our lives. Agile Vocalist is for the curious, the creative, and for anyone willing to explore the connection between sound and our shared humanity.
Podcast buzzsprout.com
Host Rachel Medanic
Twitter Followers 809InstagramYouTube Frequency 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 32 min Listen on Apple Google Spotify Get Contact

19. DRUM AND BASS

Computers LIVE is a Drum and Bass Podcast made with Native Instruments Reaktor, Ableton Live and midi controllers. The show is streamed online and new shows are posted monthly. Themes are modified and reworked until a futuristic bass experience emerges. Drum and Bass unlike anything you've ever heard.
Podcast citrusonic.libsyn.com
Host Javier Casas
Email ****@sbcglobal.net
Facebook Followers 3KTwitter Followers 159Instagram Followers 807 Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 53 min Since May 2009 Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact

20. The Eye of Rah Show

Known behind the turn tables as Empress RAH, this unique turntablist, is an Atlanta Based Open Format DJ. Born a first generation Jamaican-Guyanese American, this Oakland, California native brings a diverse, eclectic energy that will undoubtedly unite people from different backgrounds under one sound. Her love affair with music has allowed her to gain a platform to connect with people from all over the globe and develop a DJ style that has yet to be emulated.
Podcast empressrah.com
Host Empress Rah
Email ****@gmail.com
Facebook Followers 146 Frequency 2 episodes / year Avg Length 62 min Play Get Email Contact

21. West Coast Fog

A weekly audio tour of the forgotten West, visiting obscure moments in musical and cultural history along the way. Host Erik Bluhm was the editor of Great God Pan magazine ('the Champion of Californiana') through the '90s and West Coast Fog may be seen as an aural extension of that venture.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3KTwitter Followers 933 Frequency 1 episode / year Avg Length 61 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

22. My Rock Moment

Was it being front row at a Bowie concert as a kid? Was it meeting Van Halen at a record store album signing? Or was it the first time that your band got to play The Whisky A Go Go? My Rock Moment celebrates rock music from the 60s, 70s and 80s with interviews from those that lived it and keep the music alive today! Host Amanda Morck is a native Angeleno, long-time resident of Sunset Strip, and an adjunct instructor of California rock history. She interviews Rock Hall of Fame musicians, producers, rock journalists, photographers, DJs, managers, authors and award winning Directors
Podcast cms.megaphone.fm
Host Amanda Morck
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Instagram Followers 31.1K Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

23. Joseph Carroll Podcast

Singer-Songwriter/Musician based in Los Angeles, CA. I bring in talented singers & musicians from all over southern California to talk about music.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 3KInstagram Followers 2.3K Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

24. DJSHO

Dj Sho-T, born Vince Aguilar, grew up in Salinas California listening to a wide genre of music. Family played a huge role, in the music that Dj Sho-T grew up with. He listened to anything from traditional Mexican music, due to his parents and older relatives, to hard core Rap, through various younger relatives and friends. As a result of his musical up brining, at the age of 10, Dj Sho-T got his first set of turntables. He fell in love with the capability to manipulate the music he already loved, and turn it into his own.
Podcast hearthis.at
Host Vince Aguilar
Email ****@hearthis.at
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 152.9K Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

25. BayArea Compass

Official provider for anything and everything being released musically from the Bay Area, California Interested in submitting?
Podcast soundcloud.com
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 4.7KInstagram Followers 14.9K Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

26. Outside Music Inside the Golden State

Interviews with creators of experimental, contemporary classical, noise, freely improvised, or otherwise outsider music in California. A podcast by Eliot Burk. Artwork by Z.A. Stenger.
Podcast eliotburk.github.io
Host Eliot Burk
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 3 / 5 Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

27. Iniversal Sounds podcast

Greetings & Welcome To Iniversal Sounds. I'm Dj Ras1Heart Throwing Down Some Of The Hottest Reggae, & Soul Mixes Here in Babylon. 45 Years Of Respect For The Drummer & The Dancer. Grew Up In A Family That Loved Music & Dance. I Can't Ever Remember A Time Without Music Being A Big Part Of My life. Grew Up By Green Bay Wisconsin & Just Across The Pond From Motown. Reggae On The River In Humboldt California Being The Most Popular Along With Sierra Nevada World Music Festival Started This Podcast 2005 To Promote Shows Which Now Are A Complete Audio & Visual Presentation Of Ras1Heart The Artist.
Podcast podomatic.com
Host Bryan Matteson
Facebook Followers 333 Since Jul 2014 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

28. The Sesh With Dream

A cool podcast to listen to when enjoying your recreational or medical smoke. Great Music You may have never heard and a unique perspective from a California Native. NOT A HIPSTER. SJ Baby.
Podcast podomatic.com
Host Drmznvrdie
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29. Wtf am I doing with my life? Podcast

Hello everyone!my name is Tinokilledit, I am a Musician from Tracy, Ca. who moved down to Orange County in Southern California in pursuit of a full time career in music. i have been documenting this life endeavor since early 2020 and have pushed myself to remain as honest as can be and allow you guys to know my fears, regrets as well as successes. I am an imperfect person whose biggest desire is to keep growing and learning. Drake said it best, 'The Furthest Thing from Perfect like Everyone I Know'
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Host Martino Tinokilledit Aldaco
Email ****@gmail.com
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30. ALL IS LOVE

A series of ASMR spoken word pieces over lush AMBIENT music tracks. From Cincinnatus and musicians local to California.
Podcast buzzsprout.com
Host Cincinnatus Hibbard
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