Quote of the day:
"The Punk Rock Minute is brought to you by Carl's Jr."
Carl's Jr. is a regional fast food chain in the McDonalds tradition; the Punk Rock Minute is a perhaps self-explanatory radio news segment hosted by Dickie Barrett of Boston ska band the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. (Look, another Bostonian couldn't take it anymore and took a job in LA!)
"Indie" 103 has been a pleasant part of my Los Angeles since it started broadcasting what I referred to as "alternative oldies" - without commercials at first, the golden age of any radio station - on a frequency that used to hold dance music. Their version of a heavy rotation playlist included the cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" best known from the movie "Donnie Darko." Inevitably, they eventually had to hire on-air personalities and run commercials. The ad space was to be sold by Clear Channel.
Okay, we all thought, it's sort of hurts us to have a station with any ties to that particular corporate radio behemoth calling itself "indie." But they hired former Sex Pistol Steve Jones to do the lunchtime show, and then they hired Henry Rollins to do the single best radio show I'd ever heard. Their playlist remained pretty sweet and not too overbearing on the new, hip singles. They programmed some reggae, country, and other random tunes on Sundays. It was all good.
I got disgruntled when I started hearing The Killers every hour (as much as I enjoy "Mr. Brightside") and even more so when Henry Rollins' show disappeared (he cited schedule conflicts). I really got suspicious when they started a morning show a month ago, since I HATE HATE HATE radio morning shows JUST PLAY THE MUSIC DAMMIT. Ahem. But yeah, they hired yet another amusing celebrity host, the aforementioned Dickie Barrett, and it was pretty fun to hear ska-punk on my way to work at 7 am.
I'm forever ambivalent about the mix of college radio sounds with the corporate radio format, but I can live with it as long as they keep playing The Pixies once in a while.
So I hope that when Clear Channel is forced to turn it back over to Entravision, they don't change the format. There have been rumors that Entravision, which does mostly Spanish-language programming, would turn it back into a Spanish station as it was many years ago. I wouldn't mind getting to know some rock en espanol, but I'd like it in addition to my favorite radio station, not instead of it.
PS radio gods: Don't mess with KDAY ("hip hop today and back in the day"), either, unless it's to make it even more old skool.
"The Punk Rock Minute is brought to you by Carl's Jr."
Carl's Jr. is a regional fast food chain in the McDonalds tradition; the Punk Rock Minute is a perhaps self-explanatory radio news segment hosted by Dickie Barrett of Boston ska band the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. (Look, another Bostonian couldn't take it anymore and took a job in LA!)
"Indie" 103 has been a pleasant part of my Los Angeles since it started broadcasting what I referred to as "alternative oldies" - without commercials at first, the golden age of any radio station - on a frequency that used to hold dance music. Their version of a heavy rotation playlist included the cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" best known from the movie "Donnie Darko." Inevitably, they eventually had to hire on-air personalities and run commercials. The ad space was to be sold by Clear Channel.
Okay, we all thought, it's sort of hurts us to have a station with any ties to that particular corporate radio behemoth calling itself "indie." But they hired former Sex Pistol Steve Jones to do the lunchtime show, and then they hired Henry Rollins to do the single best radio show I'd ever heard. Their playlist remained pretty sweet and not too overbearing on the new, hip singles. They programmed some reggae, country, and other random tunes on Sundays. It was all good.
I got disgruntled when I started hearing The Killers every hour (as much as I enjoy "Mr. Brightside") and even more so when Henry Rollins' show disappeared (he cited schedule conflicts). I really got suspicious when they started a morning show a month ago, since I HATE HATE HATE radio morning shows JUST PLAY THE MUSIC DAMMIT. Ahem. But yeah, they hired yet another amusing celebrity host, the aforementioned Dickie Barrett, and it was pretty fun to hear ska-punk on my way to work at 7 am.
I'm forever ambivalent about the mix of college radio sounds with the corporate radio format, but I can live with it as long as they keep playing The Pixies once in a while.
So I hope that when Clear Channel is forced to turn it back over to Entravision, they don't change the format. There have been rumors that Entravision, which does mostly Spanish-language programming, would turn it back into a Spanish station as it was many years ago. I wouldn't mind getting to know some rock en espanol, but I'd like it in addition to my favorite radio station, not instead of it.
PS radio gods: Don't mess with KDAY ("hip hop today and back in the day"), either, unless it's to make it even more old skool.
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