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!

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!

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.

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.

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...

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.

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the Beginning of September)

New Wave Summer has given way to All Request Fall on KJRW.  There are several ways you can request a song:  email kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com, tweet it to @KJRWwestseattle, comment on this blog post, or send a message on our Facebook page.

Alas, All Request Fall and KJRW itself may come to an abrupt end on October 1st.  Our web host, Radionomy sent us an email stating that the station will be deleted if we do not meet their listening time requirements by the end of this month.  

We need a 60% increase in listening time or KJRW will end its 7-year run online.

Thanks for listening in the U.S., Germany, Canada, France, Switzerland, Spain, Ecuador, Netherlands, and the U.K.  If you keep listening, we just might stay online.

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the End of July)

It's the last Monday of the month. That means KJRW provides the music round of the Shadowland Pub Quiz! Come Out and Play at the corner of California and Oregon in West Seattle at 8 p.m. Celebrate the last month of New Wave Summer by naming that New Wave tune in the audio round.

Yep, there's just one month left of New Wave Summer.  Get the T-shirt before it leaves the KJRW Corner Store.

And there are only two months left in our contract with Radionomy.  We're going to need a huge increase in listening to stay online past September.  So listen early and often! 

Folks in the U.S., Germany, Canada, France, Spain, Poland, U.A.E., China, Italy, U.K., Greece, and Israel spent the most time with the station during the past month.

If everyone that checked out the station during the month of July had stuck around for at least an hour, KJRW's listening time would be at 100%.

Would you do that?  Spend just one hour a day with KJRW? 

WHAT's GOING ON (In the Middle of July)

KJRW is halfway through New Wave Summer.  We added a dozen more songs to our Punk and New Wave categories in the past couple of weeks.

Listening is currently at about 60%.  We have 2 1/2 months to get to 100%.  Thanks for listening in the U.S., Germany, Canada, France, Poland, and Spain!

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WHAT'S GOING ON (In the Middle of June)

New Wave Summer has begun on KJRW!  The Psychedelic Furs are playing as I type this note.  We're just a couple of weeks into June, but it is already shaping up to be a good month for the station.  People have spent almost 3 thousand hours listening in the U.S., Germany, Canada, France, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Austria, and Greece.  Listening time is currently at 72%!  We may just make it to 100% by September...

WHAT'S GOING ON (At the End of May)

As May draws to a close, we are glad we scheduled Soundgarden to be the final Artist of the Day.  KJRW was saddened to learn of the loss of Chris Cornell on the 18th after a show in Detroit.  He had one of the strongest voices in rock.  May he be at peace.

KJRW has featured a different artist every day in May.  Over a thousand people heard them all.  Thanks for checking us out in the U.S., Germany, Canada, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Norway, Austria, Greece, U.K., Slovenia, Portugal, and Thailand.  Listening time rose to 45%.  We have 4 months to get to 100%.

NEW WAVE SUMMER begins later this week.  Listen for Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, The Cure, New Order, Devo, Talking Heads, The Police, Blondie, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, Tears for Fears, The B-52's, Psychedelic Furs, The Human League, The Smiths and more all summer long.

All your favorite Alternative and Punk Rock songs will be on, too.

So, catch the wave -- it'll be gnarly and totally tubular, dude!

WHAT'S GOING ON (At the beginning of May)

 KJRW will feature a different artist every day this month!

A reason to listen every day in May.

Time spent listening in April fell to 28%.  Our hope was to achieve at least 57% to be on pace to reach 100% in 5 months.  People did spend over 11 hundred hours with KJRW in the U.S., Germany, Canada, France, Spain, Poland, Austria, and Italy.

It's still cold, cloudy, and rainy in Seattle, but New Wave Summer is right around the corner...

Speaking of corners, be sure to visit the KJRW Corner Store for stuff with the  Little Lex Logo!

WHAT'S GOING ON (In the middle of April)

We enjoyed Pearl Jam Day so much at KJRW, that we have decided to feature a different artist every day in May!  Each day in May, one of our favorite bands will be showcased.  Get the May Artist of the Day Greeting Card at the KJRW Corner Store to follow along.

Unfortunately, listening time has declined quite a bit this past week or so.  We are currently at 30%.  It would be great if we could double that by the end of April to get back on track.

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

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the beginning of April)

We have not received the official word from Radionomy, but it looks like we have enough listening hours to stay online in April.  You checked us out over 16 hundred times in March, and spent over 19 hundred hours with KJRW.  That means we are about halfway to reaching our ultimate goal.  Thanks for listening in the U.S., Germany, Canada, France, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland.

Something funny is going on all day today on KJRW.  Listen for songs you will only hear on April 1st.

On April 7th, KJRW celebrates the induction of Pearl Jam into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Pearl Jam songs every hour next Friday.

WHAT'S GOING ON (In the Middle of March)

Happy Spring!  Almost 3 weeks into March, listening has gone up 26%.  That brings us almost halfway to our ultimate goal.  Thanks for spending time with KJRW in the U.S., Germany, France, and Canada!

We invite you to share some laughs with us on April Fool's Day, when we'll sprinkle some novelty songs into the mix.  It's no joke - if you don't listen in March, KJRW won't be online in April.  Radionomy checks in on us at the end of the month.

KJRW celebrates Pearl Jam's induction into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame on April 7th by playing Pearl Jam every hour.  From the Rock Hall:  "The 32nd Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, presented by Klipsch Audio, will take place on Friday, April 7, 2017 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York for the third time....Propelled by the hits “Alive” and “Jeremy” (about a high school student’s suicide), Ten sold over 13 million copies in America, launching a singular career of enduring commercial success (ten Top Five studio albums, half of them Number Ones) and staunch idealism. In the mid-Nineties, Pearl Jam challenged monopolistic practices in the concert-ticket industry; in 2000, they took the live-tape-sharing aesthetic to a new fan-friendly extreme, initiating a series of soundboard-quality live releases from every show – a now-common practice among bands big and new. Pearl Jam have also collaborated extensively – as a group and individuals, on stage and records – with a long list of inspirations including Neil Young, the Who and the Ramones. Twenty-five years after Ten, Pearl Jam are still one of the most reliably explosive, vigorously committed and truly modern rock bands in the world.

Keep listening:  www.radionomy.com/en/radio/kjrw-westseattle

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the End of February)

We're sad to report listening dropped to 21% of our goal during February.  There needs to be a huge increase in March because Radionomy will be checking in on us at the end of the month.

People spent the most time with KJRW in the U.S., Canada, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, and Mexico.

This Spring, KJRW is gonna get out from Under the Covers and Tighten Up.  KJRW Goes Green on March 17th, with songs from Green Day every hour.

And if we get enough listening hours in March, not only will we get to stay online for another six months, but we will be given the space to add a bunch more songs.