You are welcome Dana! And many more! Still listening to your show in the AM from back here on the east coast! You're one of two NPR stations I have been supporting and will continue to do so! Public Radio is so much more important recently and we all need to support both NPR and PBS! Stay safe!

Huge thanks @heynowdana.com closing tonight’s Punkyard show on @indie1023.bsky.social with our song HIT IN THE FACE!

L'Shanah Tovah U'metukah to everyone who is observing Rosh Hashanah. Wishing you all a sweet and healthy year ahead. 💖

And I'll keep saying it. Every single morning. 💖 We all need to believe this, and we all need to believe in each other. The dark of night is always eventually followed by a sunrise, right? ☀️

I want to learn how to dance like Kate Pierson of The B-52's.

Happy 4th rebirthday to me. Thank you for helping me get here. 🥹💖🎂

Radio has literally saved my life twice — in my past life, and again in my new one. So you'd better believe National Radio Day means the world to me. ✨🥹✨

How hard is it for people (well-meaning or otherwise) to understand that the word "trans" is an adjective and not a noun?

If you loved that, listen to The Punkyard this Saturday night at 6 on @indie1023.bsky.social for another new Cheap Perfume song!

Al Doyle of LCD Soundsystem on stage at Red Rocks last night 💖🏳️‍⚧️🫂 #ProtectTransKids

Just a few weeks ago, a bestie and I were dipping our grilled cheese sammiches into Kraft macaroni and cheese while binge-watching TV in bed. Being grown up all the time is overrated, IMO.

Did I buy myself a bouquet of flowers, a vanilla cake with sprinkles, and my favorite sugary cereal? You bet I did. Is there a special occasion? Nope. 1/4

Hi, party people! If you'll be joining us for the Underground Music Showcase this weekend and you're an @indie1023.bsky.social Indie Insider, go to our new Discord server and check out my picks each day for which bands I most want you to see! 💖

Doing an all-request morning show on @indie1023.bsky.social this Thursday from 7 to 10, and anything goes! Submit your requests now, here: www.cpr.org/2025/07/21/i...

I'm absolutely going to play that this Thursday morning — I'm doing an all-request morning show that day! 100% listener chosen music! What else do you all want to hear on Thursday morning, my friends? No rules!

my periodic reminder that your artistic work — your writing, music, dance, whatever it is — is crucially important for you and for the people who receive it, in ways you might never personally experience or grasp. you gotta trust me, please keep going

After a break, I'm attempting to be active on Bluesky again. I looked at the accounts I was following and let go of some centered on activism, politics, and news — not because their content is unimportant to me; I just want to limit how much of it is in my feed. Protect your joy and mental health.

Hey @shawnluceroco.bsky.social, we're on the same side! I say we go with meteorological summer, which says summer started three weeks ago! 🌞 www.foxweather.com/learn/meteor...

@heynowdana.com another way to celebrate #Juneteenth in #DowntownDenver today is to come to #CivicCenterEATS! We have a couple of Black-owned food trucks and will have Jay Raxx, a young Black musical artist, performing from Youth on Record! 11a-2p in Civic Center Park. Hope you can join!

BREAKING: A federal court just blocked Trump’s passport policy. Trans people across the U.S. may now be eligible to update their gender markers—including “X”—without medical documentation. But the window may not stay open for long. 🧵

Fantastic analysis and advice from @aridrennen.bsky.social about the optimistic but precarious news that broke today. aridrennen.substack.com/p/breaking-a...

When was the last time you bought yourself flowers? Whatever your answer was, it's been too long.

Quick! Someone make a song called "Blame Dana" so @bretsaunders.bsky.social and I can have fun with this!

Your reminder that Humboldt Fog cheese, Humboldt County, CA, the Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti),and the Humboldt Current that allows wine grapes to grow in Chile are all named for an 18th C gay scientist whose love letters were all burned and who left his entire estate to his “valet.” 🏳️‍🌈

"I'm going to be going to a concert every day for the rest of my life, it feels like" said @heynowdana.com on air just now. 😂 Grrrl I know it's hard, but you're strong. 🙏🏻

@heynowdana.com Oh gosh, oh gosh! Thank you for today's Under the Covers. You made this Gen X'er super happy two days in a row! For those that don't listen to @indie1023.bsky.social, Dana Meyers does a cover at 7:20 MT every weekday, today's was: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf0A...

Heteronormativity robbed many of us of school dances and proms and kisses stolen under the bleachers and introducing our parents to our crushes and notes passed in class — dotted with hearts — and writing out an imaginary married name. I think it’s OK if we get a month. Happy Pride, y’all.

I started something

Upon hearing that a new pope had been chosen, even this Jewish girl was hungry for some POPE YES. 🍗

🪐INDIEVERSE🪐 at Levitt 9/13! A universe of good vibes and great music with OK Go, Dehd, Dead Pioneers and Pink Fuzz. Wait! There's more! We'll add one more artist to the lineup soon. Wrap up your summer with killer music, lots to eat, drink, buy, do and experience! www.axs.com/events/96927...

change of plans. feeling like I'm just gonna come to terms with my rusty cage

Jax Gratton has been missing for nearly two weeks now. 💔 www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

Ironically, this is my phone's ringtone... youtu.be/gw5vAd5icAg?...

This might be one of my favorite compliments of all time 😀

Lots of familiar names, lots of bands coming to Colorado soon, lots of noise, lots of volume. — Host @heynowdana.com

Colorado Public Radio responds to the president's recent "grift" memo about NPR & PBS (memo linked within)

In an update/fundraising email to supporters, Colorado Public Radio CEO Stewart Vanderwilt writes of potential federal cuts to public broadcasting, "This is framed as defunding NPR and PBS, however, the reality is that it will take money from local communities across the country and Colorado."

Oh, and a belated Chag Pesach Sameach. I miss Seder with my Easter Coast fam, but I hope yours filled you up 💙

If you are feeling sad, anxious or depressed, this is a reasonable reaction to everything going on, there is no shame in asking for help, and you should try and make plans to talk to a therapist and/or be around other people. This can be via a company's EAP, Aetna's AbleTo program, or other options.

Yes, this album came out almost three years ago, but the new vinyl release gave it a fresh boost. Happy to see this new milestone in music. 🏳️‍⚧️

Hot trans summer dress rehearsal

Glitter Porn plays tonight at The Black Sheep, and Diskount Vodka is there with Authority Zero tomorrow! @puptheband.bsky.social and @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social and @ekkoastral.bsky.social play the @missionballroomco.bsky.social a day after the Sex Pistols do! And other fun stuff.

Typical breakfast for a morning radio host who's not afraid to die.

We're all about underappreciated bangers 😀 — Morning Host @heynowdana.com

John Oliver's segment about trans athletes is a must watch for anyone who genuinely has "concerns" (and isn't just using that as cover for bigotry) www.readtpa.com/p/send-this-...

I'm back in action (finally)! See you soon, Springers. 💖

Breakfast of champions (who have a cold)! It was a change of pace from all the chicken noodle soup I've had this week.

Minus the outdoorsiness, and minus a love for craft beer.