The nerve
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Any NPR music station is gonna be awesome. KEXP is probably one of the GOATs. KCMP in Minneapolis, KTBG in KC, KOPN in Columbia, Missouri, KVOQ in Denver.
Honestly, it's the listener supported/community run radio stations that are the best.
Listener support doesn't mean they are NPR. Hate to nitpick most of the time but NPR can get bent for their corporate shilling.
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Don't get me started on XM/Sirius/whatever
Most stations, despite a live DJ (I think), play the same 40-50 songs all day everyday, often on the same timetable. So if you heard say Free Bird at 2pm, you'll hear it the following day at the same time within 20ish min. And I'd imagine every station is like this.
It came free in my truck for a year, sweet. The only reason I kept it was because I was able to keep swinging the $6/month thing, and I really only want to tune into the Dead channel whenever I please, and only because Lemieux has an excellent rotation of live shows. But even they play the same studio cuts at the same time of day. If it weren't for the fact that I'm still rebuilding my music server, I'd likely have dropped them, but still, any mainstream radio service is pretty much poopy.
Somewhat related—oldies stations are like this, except with "new" songs entering the rotation periodically. Of course, when the end of the year rolls around they play the "Top 100 songs of the year" which are essentially the same set of songs in a haphazard order.
I didn't mind it so much because it was much better than listening to the low hum of showcase coolers of a mom-and-pop grocery store. However, it was pretty jarring when I heard them play a song I distinctly remember hearing on the radio as a kid riding in the back of the van getting dropped off for 1st grade (or some such young age)
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We have a radio station in my home town that used to call itself "Mix 100" (their frequency was 100.1). I figured it was because they played the same 100 songs and each of the songs they played were ones I'd heard 100 times before.
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I stream it to my car when I remember to. I miss Washington and its' radio.
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Somewhat related—oldies stations are like this, except with "new" songs entering the rotation periodically. Of course, when the end of the year rolls around they play the "Top 100 songs of the year" which are essentially the same set of songs in a haphazard order.
I didn't mind it so much because it was much better than listening to the low hum of showcase coolers of a mom-and-pop grocery store. However, it was pretty jarring when I heard them play a song I distinctly remember hearing on the radio as a kid riding in the back of the van getting dropped off for 1st grade (or some such young age)
However, it was pretty jarring when I heard them play a song I distinctly remember hearing on the radio as a kid riding in the back of the van getting dropped off for 1st grade (or some such young age)
Shit, I remember tuning in to KLOS (So Cal classic rock) a while back and being super confused as to why they were playing Nirvana. As Bob Dylan said, "The times, they are a-changin"
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That's the way you do it
That ain't working
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me listening to the same song 10 tines in a row every day:
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40 is a few dozen.
IDK who guy is
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Soma.fm forever
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If anyone's is interested in a stream of modern rock that is devoted to new music, I can introduce you to the dj before he does a stream. I spoke with Alan Cross (From the Ongoing History of rock and roll) via email briefly about this DJ and Alan already knew who he was and there is video interview between the two of them as well
If interested send me a message, don't want to promote a link to something I support through patreon without permission, but I'm happy to share to anyone that's interested.
Last week was his first live show in a long time, and I'm glad he has decided to continue.
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40 is a few dozen.
IDK who guy is
The guy in the photo? American electronic music producer and DJ Dillon Francis
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Stupid 106.5 in Sydney. Fuck me, so bloody sick of Sabrina Cuntpunters shitty songs multiple times a day, each day.
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On a less related note, I did not expect to see this meme format in 2025. Not that I mind tho ^^
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If anyone's is interested in a stream of modern rock that is devoted to new music, I can introduce you to the dj before he does a stream. I spoke with Alan Cross (From the Ongoing History of rock and roll) via email briefly about this DJ and Alan already knew who he was and there is video interview between the two of them as well
If interested send me a message, don't want to promote a link to something I support through patreon without permission, but I'm happy to share to anyone that's interested.
Last week was his first live show in a long time, and I'm glad he has decided to continue.
Hit me with that link!
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Back in the day I ran a small Shout cast server. Once had around 40 listeners. It made teenage me happy. In a broken voice, between tracks, I'd pretend to be a radio guy on my cheap desktop microphone (those white/grey/cream sticks, you know the ones I'm sure).
"Yo yo yo, that was a SICK beat, let's get on down to some more funky tunes!!!"Fun memories.
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Same with classic rock stations, I swear to fucking god Boston's 100.7 plays Turn the Page by Bob Seger or Metallica's cover daily at like 7:45am. That's usually followed by one of 3 AC/DC songs then 10-15 minutes of commercials since iHeartRadio bought them a while ago.
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This is why radio died. Rock stations playing Aerosmith, guns and roses and ac/DC on repeat. Instead of 5 minutes of something new. By 2010 most if us were leaving fm for pre-downloaded music, 2015 apps were widely available, by 2020, what even was radio
They walked to their own Graves and pulled the trigger
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Listener support doesn't mean they are NPR. Hate to nitpick most of the time but NPR can get bent for their corporate shilling.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah, that's why I mentioned listener supported radio/community run. As a separate statement.
Honestly, it's the listener supported/community run radio stations that are the best.
I only mentioned NPR because that's just something the average North American can relate to. Also KEXP is affiliated with NPR. So it felt relevant to mention.
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Soma.fm forever
Boot Liquor changed my musical tastes forever!
They have a decent stand-alone app too. Lots of good stations.
