Center for Cassette Studies currently broadcasts bi-weekly every other Saturday morning from 8-10am PST on Freeform Portland, KFFP 90.3/KFFD 98.3, or freeformportland.org for live streaming. Follow us on Instagram for local monthly gigs. Most recent shows can be found on Mixcloud. (Karen also has her own show, Weekend Family Music Hour.)

We are Jim and Karen. Karen is from Adelaide, Australia and lived in Chicago for many years, where she worked at Facets Video, managed The Brown Elephant, and was international music buyer at Tower Records. Jim is from Tuscaloosa, Alabama and started DJing in 1989 at WVUA, where Toilet Water ran for several years, playing postpunk, girl groups, and discount disco. Center was started in 2013, as a monthly at The Tannery, with Karen joining in 2015. Message us at Instagram for booking queries.