GOODBYE TO YOU

About 8 years ago, we began building the music library and named our station KJRW.  Today, Radionomy silenced it.  We came very close to their listening requirements.  (Personally, we believe Radionomy did not record all of the time people spent with the station.  For example, our stats from Facebook show that over 2 thousand clicked a link from there during a period that Radionomy only shows about 1200 total did.)  More people have been listening to KJRW in the past month than ever.

KJRW has been heard in almost every continent on the globe over the past (almost) 8 years.  Thank you for listening in the U.S., Germany, Canada, France, Spain, Poland, Netherlands, U.K., Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Ireland, Austria, U.A.E., Australia, China, Norway, Hungary, Israel, Ecuador, Peru, Belgium, Sweden, Hong Kong, Guatemala, Mexico, Czech Republic, Thailand, Portugal, Vietnam, Cuba, Myanmar, Uruguay, Morocco, Singapore, Malaysia, French Polynesia, Kazakhstan, Costa Rica, Bulgaria, Estonia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Belarus, and Latvia.

Thanks for spending time with KJRW in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, North Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts.  A special shout out to David for sharing posts on Facebook, and for single-handedly making Wisconsin second in listening in the U.S.

We also thank all the voices of KJRW:  The Spinster, Matt, Anne, Blue, Nate, Love, Kevin, Madison, Travis, and Anna. Thanks to the indie bands and fans for sending us songs.  Thanks to Angie, Barry, Mike, Kelly, Luis, Rikki, Selene, and Elizabeth for your music and station i.d.'s. Thanks to Allyssa for drawing our mascot.

So long and thanks for all the fish!

OCTOBER and KINGDOMS RISE and KINGDOMS FALL

Hope you enjoyed Punk Rock Weekend.  Listening time increased 13% in the past month!  You pushed the play button over 800 times and spent close to 3 thousand hours with KJRW.  Thanks for checking us out in the U.S., Germany, Canada, France, Spain, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Australia, Ecuador, and Slovenia.

KJRW takes you Under the Covers once again on the weekend of the 20th.  It will be a weekend full of punk rock cover songs.

We're also sprinkling in some spooky songs leading up to Halloween.

All Request Fall continues on KJRW....


....for as long as Radionomy keeps us online.  They dropped us an email saying the ax will fall on the 28th if listening does not keep rising.  So, keep pressing that play button and tell your friends to do the same!

UNDERCOVER REPRISE

Your favorite feature is back this weekend.  Get Under the Covers with KJRW.  It's the only time you will hear songs made famous by Nancy Sinatra, Sister Sledge, The Animals, Britney Spears, Prince, Pink Floyd, and John Lennon - because they're covered by Punk/Alternative artists.  Listen this weekend!

There are less than 7 weeks until our day of reckoning with our web host, Radionomy.  At the end of October, they will decide if KJRW has enough listening time to stay online.  We are currently at 58% of the goal.

All Request Fall is underway.  KJRW plays all your song suggestions.  Comment with yours now.

THE FALL

It's the last week of New Wave Summer on KJRW.  
Catch the wave while you can!
 https://www.radionomy.com/en/radio/kjrwseattle/index


You pressed play almost 700 times over the past month and listened for over 2 thousand hours, placing us over halfway to our goal.  Help us raise listening 42% in the next 2 months.  

Thanks for checking out KJRW in the U.S., Germany, Canada, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal, and Italy.


This Friday, get your fill of Foo on FOO FIGHTERS FRIDAY on KJRW!


All Request Fall begins Tuesday, September 4th on KJRW!  Comment here with your song requests or on our Facebook page.

MY WAVE

KJRW took a little break from New Wave Summer to bring you Grunge Week.  Pearl Jam's Home Shows raised about $11 million to fight homelessness.  

We now return to New Wave Summer, already in progress.  New Wave Summer continues through Labor Day.

Thanks for listening in the U.S., Germany, Spain, Canada, Netherlands, Finland, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, France, and Ireland!

PUT ON YOUR PJs

Pearl Jam plays Seattle for the first time in 5 years, with 2 shows at Safeco Field August 8th and 10th.  Billed as The Home Shows, Pearl Jam hopes to shine a light on Seattle's homelessness population which is now the 3rd largest in the country.  Band together with Pearl Jam by donating, volunteering, and getting more informed.

https://pearljam.com/thehomeshows/seattle-wa/take-action

KJRW celebrates the occasion with Grunge Week beginning Sunday, August 5th.  We interrupt New Wave Summer to bring you the Seattle Sound (or the Puget Sound, if you will), featuring:  Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, and more.

Don't forget to check out the Pearl Jam:  Home and Away exhibit at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle Center.  See over 200 artifacts from the band's almost 3 decades of making music.  Instruments, stage props, set lists, album and poster art, lyrics, and notebooks that have resided in Pearl Jam's warehouse will be on display.  (Nirvana artifacts are also currently on display at MoPOP.)

SUMMERTIME ROLLS

Summer is here and the time is right for NEW WAVE SUMMER.  We are about 12 hours away from launching New Wave Summer on KJRW as we sit here typing this.  By the time you read this, it may have already begun.  You will hear Joy Division, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Tears for Fears, and many other New Wave bands all summer long on KJRW.  

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock. New wave moved away from blues and rock and roll sounds to create rock music (early new wave) or pop music (later) that incorporated disco, mod, and electronic music.  - Wikipedia

Taking its name from the French New Wave cinema of the late 1950s, this catchall classification was defined in opposition to punk (which was generally more raw, rough edged, and political) and to mainstream “corporate” rock (which many new wave upstarts considered complacent and creatively stagnant). - Britannica

During the late '70s and early '80s, New Wave was a catch-all term for the music that directly followed punk rock; often, the term encompassed punk itself, as well. - AllMusic

No matter your definition, get ready for a fun summer with KJRW.

Listening time is up 20% in June.  That places us at 75% of our goal to stay online at the end of October.  Thanks for listening to KJRW!

JUNE HYMN

Almost 400 of you clicked the play button on KJRW over 800 times and listened for over 2 thousand hours during the month of May.  That puts us over halfway to our ultimate listening goal we need to reach by the end of October to stay online.  Listening time increased 17% from April to May.

Sadly, that percentage dropped in the past week by 8% due to technical difficulties with Radionomy.  Several of their streams have only played sporadically since the Friday before Memorial Weekend, including ours. There has been no reply to our inquiry for a solution.  We're back on today.

New Wave Summer begins in a couple of weeks.  KJRW will showcase artists such as:  Joy Division, Duran Duran, Blondie, Devo, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Talking Heads, and more all summer long.

As always, we take your requests at kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com or on our Facebook Page.  You can also follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

Thanks for listening in the U.S., Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, Austria, U.K., Ecuador, Morocco, and Thailand.

NEW SONG

Hey, so we got some news from Radionomy that we would like to share:  
"In order to promote a wide international community of independent artists and young talents, Radionomy joins its sister company Jamendo Licensing to provide the Producers of radio stations Radionomy with musical streams regularly updated in more than 20 different music genres such as Pop Rock, Classical, World, Britpop and many more.
From now on, you'll be able at your convenience to select tracks among these various streams...  and add them into your own music... Using Radionomy Streams is optional, however, from May 15, 2018, in order to promote emergent artists and reduce a little bit the broadcasting costs, Radionomy will inject in your planning one of these Jamendo tracks, selected in the music genre of your station, every 3 hours (either approximately 2% of your playlist), only if none of these tracks has been scheduled in the planning for three hours."

What does this mean?  Our interpretation is that Radionomy will somehow offset some of their costs by forcing every station on their site to play music from their sister company.  It's true that most of the music KJRW plays was created decades ago, but we are not unwilling to play new songs.  In fact, it is inspiring to hear new alternative/punk rock.  We enjoy playing new tracks from indie artists, and encourage new bands to send us their music.  Just the other day, a band from Portland, OR, Riot AF sent their new single to kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com.  We are happy to add it to our playlist.  However, the idea of some random song popping up every few hours is not appealing.  
Check out Radionomy's list of categories of music:

One punk song.  ONE.  And we listened to it.  It's not very punk rock.  What exactly is Drone Music?  Will some Gangsta Rap suddenly emerge from your speaker while listening to KJRW?  Tune in this week to find out.

Better yet, listen this weekend for a KJRW Punk Rock Weekend!  Nothing but Punk Rock all weekend long on KJRW --- well ya know, except for the occasional Jazz track Radionomy inserts.

IN BLOOM

During the month of April, you clicked the play button 13 hundred times and listened to KJRW for 17 hundred hours.Thanks for spending time with KJRW in the U.S., Germany, France, Sweden, Canada, Austria, New Zealand, Greece, Uruguay, Italy, Poland, and the U.K.

You put in the time, and you shall be rewarded with more music!  That's right, Radionomy decided we have enough listening time to give us more space for more songs.  More Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Stooges, Green Day, Joy Division, Jane's Addiction, and more.  We just doubled our Clash folder!  Our Spring Fling continues.  You're gonna love it.

THE FIRST DAYS OF SPRING

Our Spring Fling got off to a slow start, but love began to bloom over the first Punk Rock Weekend ever on KJRW.  You pushed the play button 254 times on Saturday and Sunday to hear the Ramones, Clash, Sex Pistols, and more.  Listeners spent one hundred more hours with KJRW on Punk Rock Weekend than the previous weekend.  We may have to do this again soon.

Folks have spent almost 8 hundred hours listening to KJRW during the first half of April.  Radionomy will be looking at our listening time at the end of this month to determine if they will give us more space for more songs or if they will drop us from the website.  It is up to YOU to keep KJRW online once again by listening.

Thanks for listening in the U.S., France, Sweden, Canada, Germany, Greece, Austria, Poland, New Zealand, Uruguay, Italy, Spain, Australia, and the U.K.

PUNK ROCK WEEKEND

This weekend is a Punk Rock Weekend.

Nothing but Punk Rock all weekend long.

LISTEN

OUT LIKE MARY'S LITTLE LAMB

KJRW just transitioned from being Under the Covers to having a Spring Fling.  Listening time held steady in the month of March.  If we stay at this level, Radionomy will allow us to add even more songs at the end of April.  And we are itching to increase our total of tunes.  KJRW is playing stuff you haven't heard  in awhile to woo you into having a Spring Fling with us.  You're gonna love it!  Tell us what to play by commenting here, emailing, or posting to Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

Thanks for listening to KJRW in the U.S., Germany, France, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Australia, Greece, U.K., Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Italy, Israel, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Hungary.
We are currently at 40% of our listening goal which must be achieved by this fall in order to stay online.  Click on KJRW April 1st to hear some foolish songs sprinkled into the playlist.  It's part of our Spring Fling because we like like you.

IN LIKE A GOLD LION

Hello and welcome to March!  

Taking a look at our first month back online, KJRW has a stronghold on North America and Europe.  We have even infiltrated the Middle East and South America.  Thanks for listening in the U.S., Germany, France, Austria, Canada, Guatemala, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Romania, and the U.K.

We beat our listening goal by 30% in February!  Keep listening because we are still 63% away from our ultimate listening goal, which we have to reach by the end of October.


Near the end of this month, we begin our Spring Fling.  We will stretch our musical muscles this spring by adding songs you haven't heard lately.  You can send your song requests to kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com, post them on our Facebook page, or Tweet at us.  While we're on the subject of social media, we just created an Instagram page.

Get Under the Covers with KJRW for a few more weeks...

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIDE

In the middle of KJRW's first month back online, 

we're still Under the Covers.  

A Perfect Circle and Green Day cover John Lennon.  

Cowboy Junkies cover Velvet Underground.  

Faith No More covers the Commodores.  

Foo Fighters cover Pink Floyd and Prince.  

Marilyn Manson covers Depeche Mode.  

Ministry covers Amy Winehouse.  

Nirvana covers David Bowie.  

Nine Inch Nails cover Queen.

NOFX covers Fleetwood Mac.

Rage Against the Machine does Dylan and the Stones.

USA!  USA!  USA!

Let's turn this country blue.  

Listen to KJRW to get your state on the map.

Two weeks into our return to Radionomy, we have reached their 3-month listening goal.  Keep it up and keep KJRW online.

UNDER THE COVERS

KJRW's first week back online was excellent. Our radio web host expects us to average 30 hours of listening a day when we reach the 3-month mark.  We exceeded 30 hours every day!  Our average was 50 hours.  

However, Radionomy divided our time by 30 days instead of 7 and came up with an average of 17 hours a day.  It was enough to get us on their radar, though.  They decided we have enough listening to throw some ads onto KJRW.  Don't worry, you will still never be more than 2 minutes away from more Alternative/Punk Rock on KJRW.

Thanks for listening in the U.S., Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Romania, and Canada!

When can you hear songs made popular by Nancy Sinatra, Britney Spears, Gloria Gaynor, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Elvis Presley, Missy Elliott, Prince, Pink Floyd, and Fleetwood Mac on KJRW?
When those songs are covered by Alternative/Punk Rock bands.  Get Under the Covers with KJRW all month long.

GUESS WHO'S BACK

Get Under the Covers with us again!  KJRW returns to Radionomy for a limited time only!

How limited?  One month? Three months?  Nine months?  Longer?
That depends completely upon YOU.  If you listen long time, we'll stick around.

DJ Spinster is back, playing songs from The Ramones, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Green Day, Black Flag, Rancid, Dead Kennedys, Misfits, Bad Religion, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, and many more.

KJRW has a new promotions director, Bass Master Nate.  He's in charge of getting the word out about the station.  Please give him a warm welcome, and help him by telling your friends about KJRW.

Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and now Instagram!

Comment with a song request.

Tune in THIS THURSDAY, February 1st for the return of the prodigal radio station. 

http://www.radionomy.com/en/radio/kjrwseattle/