KQED Podcasts Presents a Playlist of Bay Area Talk and Tunes

KQED Podcasts is bringing you the playlist you didn’t know you needed. Each week you’ll be taken through a mix of our local podcasts, with some great music. This is the playlist for music lovers, podcast devotees and people who love the Bay Area. 

You can expect a two-hour-ish listening experience on the first Friday of the month, with music curated to a special theme. Along with the tunes, we’re adding a few episodes from our slate of podcasts to keep you up to date with what’s happening in the Bay Area. These include news stories, history lessons, interviews with artists and more. 

And since we know we’re not the only ones with good music taste, we’re passing the aux to guest DJ’s for occasional takeovers — these are people who love music and  really love sharing it. Does this sound like you? Reach out to us at podcasts@kqed.org with the subject line “I’VE GOT A PLAYLIST FOR YOU.”

The first playlist is curated in honor of Women’s History Month. Follow it on Spotify here. 

Meet the curators:

Isabeth Mendoza is the engagement producer for KQED Podcasts, where she writes the newsletter for The Bay and supports social media and episode transcripts for The Bay and Bay Curious. Throughout Isabeth’s workday, Spotify is always on play and her favorite curated playlist is actually one she’s created, called “To Come Back 2,” where she drops in artists and songs she discovers and wants to revisit to go down a listening spiral. Her favorite music genre: alternative R&B (English & Spanish). Tweet at her @IsabethKahlo

Kyana Moghadam is a multimedia producer and journalist working with KQED Podcasts. Before joining the team, she worked with Al Jazeera, Jetty Studios, VOX Media, Democracy Now! Productions and Global Press. When she’s not working on podcasts, she’s all about the music — a golden age hip-hop fan, with a love for some indie soul and alt R&B, her personal playlists are all about the mood of the moment. Listen along with her at @kyanamog