WHAT'S GOING ON (at the beginning of the new year)

Hello and welcome to 2015!  KJRW's 5th year online is underway.  Most of 2014 was good for the station.  The play button was clicked about a thousand times a month.  We were riding especially high in April, when KJRW held its highest rank ever among all the stations on Live365.com.  We got Under the Covers, listened to love songs, had a New Wave Summer, went back to College in the fall and had a Punk Rock Christmas.  We'll do it all again in 2015, from Punk to Grunge and beyond!

People spent the most time listening to KJRW in the U.S., Switzerland, Spain, Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, Italy, Russia, Peru and the Czech Republic in the month of December.  Inside the U.S., listeners were found in our home base of Seattle, WA; Chicago, IL; Louisville,KY; Philadelphia, PA; New York, NY; Kansas City, MO; Los Angeles, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Cincinnati, OH and Dallas, TX.

The current top ten tracks on KJRW are:

1. Rise - Public Image Ltd.
2. Spoonman - Soundgarden
3. Bonzo Goes To Bitburg - Ramones
4. Woman - Wolfmother
5. Bittersweet Symphony - Verve
6. Corona - Minutemen
7. Welcome To Paradise - Green Day
8. Cannonball - Breeders
9. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. Closer - Nine Inch Nails

Get Under the Covers with KJRW now.  Your favorite cover songs play all winter long.

THE TOP 114 OF 2014

Merry Christmas!  Here it is:  the big list of your favorite songs you heard on KJRW this year.  The band with the most songs was Nirvana.  The White Stripes had the number one song, but it was the only song they had in the countdown. Just under 20% of the list were tunes from our College Rock and New Wave Summer features. A dozen songs were covers.  Get Under the Covers again with us in January!

1. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
2. The Busdrivers - Josh's Shirt
3. Perfect Storm - Strypes
4. So Alive - Love and Rockets
5. Feel the Pain - Dinosaur Jr.
6. Lexicon Devil - Germs
7. Wendy - Descendents
8. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
9. Get With Me - PINS
10. Oh My God - Kaiser Chiefs
11. Kundalini Express - Love and Rockets
12. I Fought the Law - Clash
13. No Fun - Sex Pistols
14. One Way Or Another - Blondie
15. T.M.I. - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
16. Strange Love - Cramps
17. Kiss Them For Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
18. Rise Above - Black Flag
19. Till I Get My Way - Black Keys
20. People Who Died - Jim Carroll Band
21. Goodnight Tonight - Dollyrots
22. Pirate Song - Go Betty Go
23. Between the Eyes - Love Battery
24. The Guns of Brixton - Clash
25. We Want the Airwaves - Ramones
26. Bad Mouth - Fugazi
27. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
28. One of My Lies - Green Day
29. School Days - Runaways
30. Dancing With Myself - Generation X
31. Sappy - Nirvana
32. Here's To Your Fuck - Gits
33. These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - 7 Seconds
34. Drama - L7
35. State of Love and Trust - Pearl Jam
36. Phenomena - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
37. Grind - Alice In Chains
38. Pablo Picasso - Modern Lovers
39. Dresden Dolls - Fall
40. Destination Anywhere - Sugarcult
41. Electric Band - Wild Flag
42. No Time Left - Crawls
43. You Sound Like You're Sick - Ramones
44. Season of the Witch - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
45. Wild Thing - X
46. Infected - Bad Religion
47. What Love Is - Dead Boys
48. Good Guys (Don't Wear White) - Minor Threat
49. Ring of Fire - Social Distortion
50. I Wanna Be Sedated - Offspring
51. Wave of Mutilation - Pixies
52. Damaged Goods - Gang of Four
53. The Wait - Pretenders
54. Love Buzz - Nirvana
55. I Want It All - Battered Wives
56. Pull A U - Kills
57. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
58. Stray - Heatmiser
59. Rock and Roll Queen - Subways
60. Who Was In My Room Last Night? - Butthole Surfers
61. The Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
62. The Wait - Killing Joke
63. Destroy - Eyeliners
64. Goo Goo Muck - Cramps
65. Everybody's Out - Dum Dum Girls
66. Somebody Else's Baby - Murder City Devils
67. Take Me To Your, Leader - Pudz
68. The Impression That I Get - Mighty Mighty Bosstones
69. I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
70. Over Seasons - Authority Zero
71. Kiss Kiss - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
72. Dog Style - Viletones
73. Money - Flying Lizards
74. Prison Bound - Social Distortion
75. Hellhole - Detroit Diesel Power
76. (I'm Gonna) Run Away - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
77. All This and More - Dead Boys
78. Sliver - Nirvana
79. Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals
80. Suicide - Battered Wives
81. The KKK Took My Baby Away - Ramones
82. New College - Dollyrots
83. Waiting Room - Fugazi
84. Soup Is Good Food - Dead Kennedys
85. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Devo
86. Should I Stay Or Should I Go? - Clash
87. Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers
88. Abra Cadaver - Hives
89. Wrong Way - Sublime
90. Friction - Television
91. New Radio - Bikini Kill
92. Radio Free Europe
93. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
94. Gouge Away - Pixies
95. Andres - L7
96. Bang On - Breeders
97. Lies - Greenhornes
98. Ever Fallen In Love? - Buzzcocks
99. Misunderstood - 7 Year Bitch
100. Girlsized - Glitter Mini 9
101. In Bloom - Nirvana
102. Bored of You - Agent Orange
103. Cocaine - FIDLAR
104. Radio Revolution - Vacancies
105. How Soon Is Now? - Smiths
106. Story of My Life - Social Distortion
107. Seriously - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
108. Whip It - Devo
109. First World Anarchist - Dollyrots
110. Ball of Confusion - Love and Rockets
111. Sundance - Public Works
112. Not My Idea - Garbage
113. So What - Anti-Nowhere League
114. You Know You're Right - Nirvana 

WHAT'S GOING ON (in the middle of December)

We're halfway through December and have had almost as many visits to the station page as in the whole month of November.  Our rank among all the stations on Live365 has been climbing this past week.  Your current favorite songs on KJRW are:

1. Spoonman - Soundgarden
2. Closer - Nine Inch Nails
3. Cannonball - Breeders
4. Rise - Public Image Ltd.
5. Rise Above - Black Flag
6. Bonzo Goes To Bitburg - Ramones
7. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
8. Corona - Minutemen
9. Lies - Greenhornes
10. Santa Monica - Everclear

The Top 114 Songs of 2014 will be posted soon.  Happy Chanukah!

TOP TEN

The first list of 2014 finds Killing Joke at the top of the heap on KJRW.

1. The Wait - Killing Joke
2. Here's To Your Fuck - Gits
3. The KKK Took My Baby Away - Ramones
4. Seriously - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
5. Dog Style - Viletones
6. So Alive - Love and Rockets
7. These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - 7 Seconds
8. Between the Eyes - Love Battery
9. Suicide - Battered Wives
10. Miss Understood - 7 Year Bitch

One cover made the list this week.  We shall see which others make the cut as KJRW Dives Under the Covers all month long.

TOP TEN

It's the bonus track from the new Joan Jett and the Blackhearts album, Unvarnished at number one in the last Top Ten of 2013 on KJRW:

1. Seriously - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
2. Here's To Your Fuck - Gits
3. Dog Style - Viletones
4. Delicious - Poets of the Fall
5. So Alive - Love and Rockets
6. Between the Eyes - Love Battery
7. Miss Understood - 7 Year Bitch
8. School Days - Runaways
9. One of My Lies - Green Day
10. Dancing with Myself - Generation X

Best wishes for 2014!  It begins with us Diving Under the Covers on KJRW.  All your favorite cover tunes playing during the month of January.