If I Had a Radio Station...
podcast: If I Had a Radio Station
format: mp3
size: 57.2 MB
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I'm on a rant now, complaining about the sad state of radio in my area. Here I go again... If I had a radio station here's what the first hour on the air would sound like:
Hounds of Love - The FutureheadsOn My Way - Ben Kweller
Qué Onda Guero - Beck
Miracle Drug - A.C. Newman
The Recluse - Cursive
Heroes and Villains - Geraint Watkins
Our Hospitality - Komeda
Polar Opposites - Modest Mouse
Ghosts for Hire - The Standard
The Laws Have Changed - The New Pornographers
Won't Be Home - Old 97's
Jonathon Fisk - Spoon
Za - Supergrass
The Summer - Yo La Tengo
I Wish I Had An Evil Twin - The Magnetic Fields
I'm A Wheel - Wilco
Middle of Nowhere - Hot Hot Heat
Midnight Jam - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
There would be a focus on independent and local artists and a distinct lack of the "hits" being peddled by the record labels. It would be a place you could go to discover new artists and hear the "never-played" tracks from the artists you like. There would be no talking over tracks. And, get this, I would even play multiple tracks by the same artist... in a row! Remember that? When radio stations would actually play the entire side of an LP record? There would be a respect for the music. Every track would get an introduction. We'd learn more about the artists. In short, it would be everything that modern commercial radio is not. It would be good.
posted by Geoffrey Mack @ 10:31 AM
1 Comments:
Well, we might not be broadcasting over the airwaves in San Francisco (and my tiny little show barely makes a dent here in NY) BUT we Do have this site!
Just look at what we have here at Shaddupandlisten. Anybody, anywhere in the world, can turn off the radio and listen to our posts here, as often as they wish. They can choose which audio post is most appealing, or they could listen to all of them back to back. There's enough here to keep anybody happily occupied for an entire afternoon,and then some!
And NO COMMERCIALS!!!!
So, in a sense, we already have that 'radio station', and you already did broadcast that magical 'first hour'. Congratulations, and thank you!
This is a great way for us to share music both new and old, while also getting useful information on the music, plus some attitude just to keep things interesting. If anybody else is listening, we'd love to hear from you, too.
Without spending millions of dollars, S&L IS on the air!!
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