SAN ONOFRE

SAN ONOFRE is a Spanish-language radio program devoted to music that lives outside the polished center. It is part interview show, part record excavation, and part private ceremony for the Onofrita faithful. The program’s recent run suggests a taste that is broad in genre but very specific in temperament: abrasive, melodic, haunted, funny, handmade, and historically tangled. A conversation with Guts opens onto Spanish touring, French gig culture, Jacobites, Swell Maps, Epic Soundtracks, John Rivers, and the long afterlife of reputations built away from the mainstream. A visit with Julen Palacio Surquiaga moves through Los Sánchez Grises, Albuquerque, Hamburg, supernatural folklore, self-released digital records, Captain Beefheart, Country Teasers, and the search for an out-of-print Swell Maps book. A Caballo Trípode episode folds in Eraserhead, shoegaze writing, Microbios booklets, band chronology, John Cage, Daniel Johnston, and joking games around song titles. The show can also open with Donizetti and Montserrat Caballé before tunneling toward the deepest essence of Catalonia and obscure Barcelona music. That range is the point. SAN ONOFRE hears music as a network of scenes, labels, books, concert rooms, friendships, and myths. It is not streamlined. It is alive with digression. The editorial energy comes from the way references collide: opera beside post-punk, local gigs beside rare archival releases, personal illness beside stubbornly continuing to play. The humor is dry and strange, but the devotion is serious. Interviews are conversational rather than promotional, often pausing over formats, labels, touring realities, old projects, and why certain records still matter. The program suits listeners who prefer a crooked path through music history to a clean playlist of recommendations. It is also for collectors, Bandcamp wanderers, post-punk loyalists, and anyone who enjoys hearing artists place their work inside a messy lineage. SAN ONOFRE’s signature is not just obscurity; it is the pleasure of making obscure music feel socially inhabited, argued over, and worth following to the next room.