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Originally posted by bilmore
This is truly a huge problem. People are constantly telling me what music I should listen to, but, aside from buying it, it's not around to experience. I can hear fifty Stones songs all over the airwaves, but absolutely nothing that I would consider new and interesting. And, yes, I have played with the radio dial.
PFL, is there such a station in your area?
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I am assuming this is directed to me. I do not listen to any commercial radio stations. They are all owned by Clear Channel anyway. The only radio station I listen to Radio K (770 am), the U of M radio station. Unlike many college radio stations, it is not stuck in an all indie rock all the time format. During the week, there is a decent variety of music. On the weekends, there are specialty shows, including an excellent hip hop show Saturdays at noon, a good ska show Saturdays at 10:00 a.m., a great world music show on Sunday mornings, and a punk rock show that is on I think at 4:00 Saturdays these days. I say these days because Radio K has a weird problem - due to archaic FCC regulations, it literally can only be on the air during sunlight hour. Thus, in December in Minnesota, it goes off the air sometime between 4 and 4:30. The webcast is 24 hours, though -
www.radiok.org. I actually buy new records based on what I have heard on this station which, these days, is shocking. I buy a lot of new music these days based on internet research and the listening booths in the back of the Electric Fetus.
