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kleinbl00  ·  2868 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 211th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

So I used to volunteer for this radio station because it's cool, it's public, it teaches kids radio and because they've been playing 4-6 hours of goth and industrial every sunday since the late '80s which is frantabulous considering it's a major market major radio station and how cool is that.

But most of the time they just play bubblegum techno (they are credited for unleashing Aqua's "Barbie Girl" upon the world). Which, hey. I'll take over whatever passes for "alternative" these days and since I'm spending entirely too much time in my father-in-law's pickup lately, I listen to the radio a lot.

Know what this major market, student-run, public-broadcasting, bubblegum-techno radio station played during their 5pm drive-time on Inauguration Day?

Censored to hell, sure. Half the lyrics missing. But here, in Seattle, at 5:12pm on a Friday, you can hear Lords of Acid on an 8.5kW FM radio station.

And that's one of the many things I love about this town.





ButterflyEffect  ·  2868 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fuck yeah. That's awesome and has partially melted my jaded radio heart.

Not the first time you've mentioned that station either. Hopefully not the last.

kleinbl00  ·  2868 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I need to touch base with the posse again. Prolly do the pledge drive if I get half a chance.