Dusty Street Dies: Outspoken Rock DJ For SiriusXM, KROQ Was 77
deadline.comDusty Frances Street, one of the first female disc jockeys on the West Coast, died Saturday in Eugene, Ore. She was 77. She was most recently the host of SiriusXM Deep Tracks, but is best known for her time working at KROQ-FM, known as K-Rock.
The station became a force in punk and new wave music in the late ’70s into the 1980s. “We have lost one of our own. Dusty Street has passed away after 77 joyous trips around the sun.
And yes, Dusty Street was her real name,” SiriusXM Deep Tracks, Street’s most recent employer, shared Sunday in a Facebook post. “Dusty was one of the first female rock jocks on the West Coast, working at KMPX and KSAN in San Francisco from 1967 through 1978 before heading to Los Angeles, where she held court in the evenings from 1979 through 1996 on KROQ. … We are heartbroken, Fly Low Dear Friend and Avoid the Radar.” After some time at smaller stations, Street joined KROQ in 1978.
She briefly left KROQ in 1980 and spent time at local rock stations KLOS and KWST, before returning to anchor KROQ’s evening programming from 1981 to 1989.
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