It's official: New York City radio sucks! - Beyond Tiki

H Humuhumu Member San Francisco Joined: Aug 22, 2002 Posts: 3691	H Humuhumu Posted posted on Thu, Aug 26, 2004 4:48 PM http://www.kexp.org A good radio station. There's a live internet feed. I miss KEXP a ton. Our newish station here in LA, Indie 103.1 (http://indie1031.fm/), is a small step (a very small step) above the other corporate stations (Indie is not independent--it's partially owned by Clear Channel). There seems to be a touch more variety in their playlists, especially during Jonesy's Jukebox. It's hosted every day by Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols, who is the worst and yet most endearing and tolerable DJ I've ever heard (well, Jon in the Morning on KEXP beats him out on the endearing and tolerable counts, but Jon is an outstanding DJ). Jonesy gets the songs mixed up, answers his cell phone on the air, forgets which buttons he's supposed to push, and is constantly meandering through long, pointless tales that last for minutes before remembering where he is and that he's actually supposed to play some music every once in a while. I love him. During commercial breaks on Indie, I bounce over to KLOS, a 70s rock station. The DJs there are, for some reason, always laughing. They're never saying anything remotely funny, but boy do they crack themselves up. Blech. Thank god for mix CDs. Critiki - Hundreds of tiki bars, Polynesian restaurants, and other sites of interest to the tiki traveller, collector or urban archaeologist [ Edited by: Humuhumu on 2004-08-26 16:51 ]

http://www.kexp.org

A good radio station. There's a live internet feed. I miss KEXP a ton.

Our newish station here in LA, Indie 103.1 (http://indie1031.fm/), is a small step (a very small step) above the other corporate stations (Indie is not independent--it's partially owned by Clear Channel). There seems to be a touch more variety in their playlists, especially during Jonesy's Jukebox. It's hosted every day by Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols, who is the worst and yet most endearing and tolerable DJ I've ever heard (well, Jon in the Morning on KEXP beats him out on the endearing and tolerable counts, but Jon is an outstanding DJ). Jonesy gets the songs mixed up, answers his cell phone on the air, forgets which buttons he's supposed to push, and is constantly meandering through long, pointless tales that last for minutes before remembering where he is and that he's actually supposed to play some music every once in a while. I love him.

During commercial breaks on Indie, I bounce over to KLOS, a 70s rock station. The DJs there are, for some reason, always laughing. They're never saying anything remotely funny, but boy do they crack themselves up. Blech.

Thank god for mix CDs.

Critiki - Hundreds of tiki bars, Polynesian restaurants, and other sites of interest to the tiki traveller, collector or urban archaeologist

[ Edited by: Humuhumu on 2004-08-26 16:51 ]

Post #110519 by Humuhumu on Thu, Aug 26, 2004 4:48 PM