Any local college radio stations you like?
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WTMD - https://wtmd.org/radio/listen-wtmd/
(lot of cassettes around with this guy's voice on them...he's sttil around)
Bracing himself for a six-hour recording session with a second cup of coffee, Weasel, who also goes by Jonathan Gilbert, hops around the studio like a giant music geek. He has his CDs in a zipped-up carrier. He has his well-thumbed notebook. This gig at WTMD may as well be the only toehold left in a world that, as Weasel put it, “has no room on the fringe for anything alternative.”
"It's a very strange world because radio as I knew it, doesn't exist," says Weasel, the legendary DJ with a Steve Buscemi voice and marsupial-like eyes that hint at the origins of his nom de air. "Just a handful of cookie-cutter radio stations."
So it is hard for him to fathom that a modern radio station would allow him to play whatever he wanted—and even send a driver for him....
...Back then, Weasel was just about to graduate from American University and was working for a storefront Bethesda radio station called WHFS. He was an engineer on its early morning Italian radio show. "I used to wake up and my dorm mates would still be partying," he says. In those days, HFS played Frank Sinatra during the day and by the evening "the hippies would come in" playing cuts off their favorite albums. This was known as free-form radio, which would take over HFS by 1972. Weasel was running the midnight shift, which was the free-est of the free form.
A tiny, whacked-out club called the Psychedelly was right across the street and the musicians would come by the station and kick the party up a few notches. People such as Frank Zappa, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Little Feat would jump on the air, playing and bullshitting into the night. It was the golden age of FM radio, but the corporate stations were growing uneasy with this new brand of album playing format.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/citypaper/bcp-legendary-radio-jock-jonathan...
https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/artsentertainment/radio-dj-wea...
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WPKN 89.5 One of the
WPKN 89.5 One of the best!
WUSB 90.1 Will not disappoint either.
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WVUD
WVUD
http://www.wvud.org/
The Voice of the University of Delaware
Fantastic variety of music all week, bluegrass, classic country and old time from 10-2 every Saturday.
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WVUD
^ WVUD
that's a good one -- always tune that in when we drive by
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WTJU 91.1 FM
WTJU 91.1 FM
I actually know people that moved back to town in the pre streaming days just to be able to tune in.
Theres nothing like it.
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KBCS 91.3 FM broadcasting
KBCS 91.3 FM broadcasting from Bellevue Community College is the best of Seattle's college/independent radio stations. They are affiliated with the Pacifica and Westwood One networks. Their Friday night "Funk Scribe and Mega-Booty" funk & R&B show, and their Sunday afternoon Bluegrass shows are excellent. They have a 90's themed show on Saturday evenings hosted by DJ Nico that is solid. They also broadcast the GD hour followed by a locally produced GD/jamband show that is decent. Their weekday afternoon shows between their news and talk programming leans towards Americana and singer-songwriter folk.
KEXP 90.3 FM gets all the hype out here, but they have too much of a corporate feel to be considered independent. They tout their partnership with the University Of Washington, but there is no apparent connection, with no UW student deejays or UW focused programming. While they do boast some of the best produced shows in town (Wednesday evening's The Roadhouse with Greg Vandy, Saturday morning's Positive Vibrations with Kid Hops, and Sunday morning's Preaching The Blues with Johnny Horne), and many of their regular once a week evening shows are good (Saturday evening's PNW Punk Rock show Sonic Reducer stands out), their regular Monday-Friday paid dee-jays are often unlistenable. Their music knowledge is undeniable, but they all stay on the mic way too long, and come across as polyannas with a thick coat of virtue-signaling.
Now operating as KNKX 88.5 FM, the former KPLU used to operate out of Pacific Lutheran University, but have transitioned from a college radio station to a community radio station. They are the local NPR station and dedicate their music programming to Jazz and Blues. Abe Beeson is my favorite of their Jazz deejays, as he clearly has a deep relationship with the genre and doesn't fall into the trap of repeating the same few tracks from the same few artists so many other deejays do. Their Blues programming is odd in that they have one deejay do two six hour shows on Saturday and Sunday nights. It's okay, but it would be nice to hear a few other voices in the mix, and some focus on other directions in Blues than the mix of Chicago Electric Blues and Classic Blues Rock the weekend host peddles. I really don't ever need to hear the likes of Joe Bonamassa. The embodiment of a corporate sound. I don't consider that Roots Music.
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It's good to hear that Weasel
It's good to hear that Weasel is still around. Listening to the Weez as a teenager growing up in D.C. was my first exposure to happening music outside of the mainstream. So much of the music I still love today, I first heard on WHFS.
When I moved to Charlottesville, WTJU was a natural source for alternative programming.
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WKMS is a really nice station
WKMS is a really nice station, especially to be in rural southwestern, KY. I know a number of the folks who put on shows.
https://www.wkms.org/#stream/0
KALX is my other daily intake. Been in love with this station since I visited SF in 2012.
https://www.kalx.berkeley.edu/live-streaming
Does anybody know what happened to UGA radio outta Athens? I used to listen regularly, but the only UGA radio I can find now seems to never play music.
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>>Their music knowledge is
>>Their music knowledge is undeniable, but they all stay on the mic way too long, and come across as polyannas with a thick coat of virtue-signaling.
LOL^^^
This thread brings back fun memories... I looked up my college station, KUPS-FM, to check out their current programming -- boomer tunes on Sundays, ha ha -- I was a jazz DJ there for a couple of years, but we were only a 100-watt station at the time. My show was on Sundays, so after a night of campus parties I usually tried to stay off the mic and just design a good music experience for the 5 students and 5 neighborhood residents who might've been listening. :-)
Also discovered a new-to-me dance station in Seattle: https://www.c895.org/
Support community radio!
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WFUV the only station in NYC
WFUV the only station in NYC I'll listen to
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Last time I was driving
Last time I was driving through New York City, I heard some good Sunday morning programming on WKCR 89.9 FM out of Columbia University.
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>>>>Their Friday night "Funk
>>>>Their Friday night "Funk Scribe and Mega-Booty" funk & R&B show,
Oh yeah. That's a good one. Have that on whenever I am up there on a Friday night.
KMHD is a "jazz" station down here, but they play some real funked up shit in the evenings. It used to be associated with Mt. Hood community college, but lost its funding. Thankfully, Oregon Public Radio stepped in and kept it on the air as an independent, community sponsored station.
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College of DuPage - Chicago's
College of DuPage - Chicago's Home for Jazz 90.9
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They're not a college radio
They're not a college radio station, but for an independent, non-profit community radio station, the best in the U.S. is WWOZ 90.7 FM out of New Orleans, Louisiana:
https://www.wwoz.org/
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88.5 WXPN - University Of
88.5 WXPN - University Of Penn Philadelphia
The best.
They play a great mix of new music, obscure classics, great shows like World Cafè, Funky Friday's, Dead Hour, Blues Show, etc.......
It's all I listen to. No commercials.
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Yes, WWOZ is great!
Yes, WWOZ is great!
I used to play it in my office when I taught college.
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^ So much of the music I
^ So much of the music I still love today, I first heard on WHFS.
You have a very good pedigree.
Deadheads might recognize the call letters because of 3/18/78 Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C. FM broadcast WHFS (released as Pure Jerry v. 6):
Jerry Garcia and Thomas Grooms recording radio IDs for 102.3 WHFS FM on November 22, 1978. (Unearthed after 37 years).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xrmz20cJWw
"The music would go from Frank Zappa to Mahler to Emmy Lou (Harris) to the Nighthawks to the Slickee Boys, Danny Gatton and then the Beatles," Schlossberg said. And the station was also the place where listeners heard many stars on the rise for the first time: Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, the Allman Brothers Band and Elvis Costello. Later, the station helped to break U2, REM, the B-52's and the Cure. The studios in Bethesda and Annapolis were often filled with performers broadcasting live. One time, Texas troubadour Jerry Jeff Walker and the Lost Gonzo Band showed up and played from 12:30 to 6 a.m. Bonnie Raitt played on a few occasions. So did reggae's Peter Tosh. Linda Ronstadt and Little Feat's Lowell George sang a 10-tune set of duets one night in 1974. All from the little station broadcasting over 2,900 watts.
Lowell George with Linda Ronstadt WHFS Bethesda, MD 1974-03-19:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaPIiJyguGw