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.

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...

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 (In the Middle of August)

Over 1500 people listened to KJRW the first half of August.  Most of that was during the first week.  Just 3 weeks left of the LAST New Wave Summer ever.  Catch it while you can.

All Request Fall begins after Labor Day Weekend.  There are several ways you can request a song  during the month of September:  email kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com, tweet it to @KJRWwestseattle, comment on this blog post, or send a message on our Facebook page.

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

We are on track to reach our goal of 2 thousand listening hours this month. Listening time is highest in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Mexico, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, France, Brazil and Germany. Inside the U.S., folks spend the most time with KJRW in Seattle, Detroit, Orlando, Denver, Charlotte, Chicago, Greensboro, San Francisco, Boston and Cleveland.

You don't have much longer to get in on the Grand Giveaway. Be sure to email kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com to enter right away. Please include your name and the city in which you live.

Pull up those parachute pants, straighten that skinny tie and wind your Swatch watch because it is almost time for New Wave Summer. We're getting ready by uploading plenty of Depeche Mode, Talking Heads, Missing Persons and more.

Stop by the KJRW Corner Store for shirts, stickers, key chains and hats.

Follow us on Twitter and Like us on Facebook for more frequent station updates.

Thanks for listening to West Seattle's Only Alternative - KJRW.

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

The first couple of weeks on Radionomy has gone well for KJRW.  
Hope you enjoyed the love songs over the weekend.  We're back Under the Covers now and for the rest of the month.  
We've picked up more followers on Twitter and amassed new likes for the Facebook page.  
Our audience has expanded from the U.S., Canada, Russia, Brazil and Mexico to France, Japan, U.K., Germany and Finland.  
Over a thousand streams have been launched in the last couple weeks!  And we want more!  Please share KJRW with your friends.  
We can now also be heard on TuneIn.

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

ALL Request Fall is underway at KJRW.  You may email your song requests to kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com.  The most requested songs playing on KJRW now are:

1. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
2. Look Back and Laugh - Minor Threat
3. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
4. I Was Wrong - Social Distortion
5. Change the World - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
6. Human Fly - Cramps
7. Know Your Rights - Clash
8. Tighten Up - Black Keys
9. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
10. Crimson Wave - Tacocat

Our rank among the thousands of stations on Live365 is climbing higher and higher.  We've been made a favorite station several more times.  KJRW has picked up a few more followers on twitter and facebook.

We designed a Special Edition T-shirt with tfund.  It is not available in the KJRW Corner Store.  It is only available here.  10 shirts need to be pre-ordered in the next 10 days, or the shirt will not get printed!  It's only $20 and part of that will go to keep our little radio-station-that-could chugging away. Please order a shirt today!

Last Monday is a little over a week away.  KJRW hosts the music round at the Shadowland Pub Quiz on the 28th at 8 p.m. in West Seattle.  This month's category is Alternative Rock Resumes.  Musicians who have been members of more than one successful band are highlighted.  Come Out and Play!

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

Monday night's Shadowland Pub Quiz was rockin' and raucous. Rico walked away with the fan-made KJRW T-shirt for correctly guessing the lyrics: "You said irony was the shackles of youth" belonged to a song by R.E.M. (What's the Frequency, Kenneth?). We thank Scott M.X. for letting us invade his quiz show the last Monday of every month.  Scott hosts the Shadowland Pub Quiz in West Seattle Monday nights at 8.

The station's rank climbed a few notches in August. We hit the milestone of 70 thousand visits to the KJRW station page at Live365.com.  There were almost 2 thousand visits in August alone. VIPs spent more time with us in August than in the previous 3 months.  KJRW was made a favorite station the most times since January.  The Facebook page got a bunch more likes.  And we gathered another batch of followers on Twitter.

People were listening the most in the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Belarus, Mexico, Italy, Japan and Belgium.

Inside the U.S., people spent the greatest amount of time with KJRW in:

• Seattle, WA
• Kansas City, MO
• Detroit, MI
• Philadelphia, PA
• Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
• Cincinnati, OH
• Atlanta, GA
• San Francisco, CA
• Albany, NY
• Boston, MA

The songs getting the thumbs up currently are:

1. Know Your Rights - Clash
2. Friction - Television
3. Don't Go - Yaz(oo)
4. Corduroy - Pearl Jam
5. Kiss Them for Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
6. Tighten Up - Black Keys
7. Maxwell Murder - Rancid
8. Ven Cerca - Girl in a Coma
9. Strangelove - Depeche Mode
10. Seven Nation Army - White Stripes

It's the last week of New Wave Summer.  Grab your T-shirt before it leaves the KJRW Corner Store.

ALL REQUEST FALL begins after Labor Day. You may make requests by clicking the talk bubble on the station page, or by emailing kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com.   You can even request your own band's music to be played if you include an mp3.

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

It's the middle of New Wave Summer on KJRW.  More streams were launched in July than in June.  We saw the milestone of being made a favorite station on Live365 over 700 times.  A bunch more people have followed us on twitter and liked the facebook page.  Click the links to do the same and get more frequent updates on KJRW.

Your current favorite songs are:

1. Communist Eyes - Germs
2. Let's Dance - David Bowie
3. Ring of Fire - Social Distortion
4. Radio - New Hell Republic
5. Drug Train - Social Distortion
6. Kids In America - Kim Wilde
7. Strangelove - Depeche Mode
8. God Save the Queen - Sex Pistols
9. Rockaway Beach - Ramones
10. American Idiot - Green Day

People listened the most in the U.S., Argentina, Canada, Switzerland, Japan, Belgium, New Zealand, Venezuela, Sweden and Serbia during July.  In the U.S., listening was highest in Washington, Texas, California, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York and Oregon.

Our first round of music trivia at the Shadowland Pub Quiz was well received.  We are looking forward to doing it again the last Monday of August.  If you are in the Seattle area, please come out and play.

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

The good news is that we have raised enough money to renew our contract with Live365 next month!  KJRW will stay online another year, and will have more room to store more songs and more people will be able to listen at a time without having to pay a subscription fee.  More!  More!  More!

Our rank among the rock stations on Live365 is holding steady.  We're just shy of being made a favorite 600 times. KJRW picked up a few more twitter followers this past week.  If you would like more frequent updates about the station, follow us on twitter or like the facebook page.

Your current favorite songs on KJRW are:

1. The Busdrivers - Josh's Shirt
2. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
3. Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals
4. You Sound Like You're Sick - Ramones
5. People Who Died - Jim Carroll Band
6. Kundalini Express - Love and Rockets
7. Goo Goo Muck - Cramps
8. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
9. Wave of Mutilation - Pixies
10. The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead - XTC

We continue our musical journey through 80's College Rock the rest of this month to 90's Alternative in December.  Thanks for coming along for the ride.

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

Your favorite songs the first week of October were:

1. Till I Get My Way - Black Keys
2. Goodnight Tonight - Dollyrots
3. Pirate Song - Go Betty Go
4. Oh My God - Kaiser Chiefs
5. Stray - Heatmiser
6. You Sound Like You're Sick - Ramones
7. Damaged Goods - Gang of Four
8. All This and More - Dead Boys
9. Perfect Storm - Strypes
10. The Wait - Pretenders

Over a couple hundred people visited the station page during the first week of the month.  Several people clicked on the heart to make KJRW a favorite.

KJRW got more twitter followers and more Facebook page likes.

Listen for College Rock and some spooky tunes all month long...

TOP TEN

L7 stays at the top of the heap this week on KJRW:

1. The Masses Are Asses - L7
2. Suicide - Battered Wives
3. Minor Threat - Minor Threat
4. Bad Reputation - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
5. Oh Come On - Julie Ruin
6. Need You Around - Smoking Popes
7. Paralyzed - Rock Kills Kid
8. Look Back and Laugh - Minor Threat
9. Lexicon Devil - Germs
10. Dancing With Myself - Generation X

We're filtering in some of your old favorites from the past year on KJRW from the Stooges, Misfits and more in preparation for the TOP 113 of 2013.  Stick a song to the wall on the facebook page to get it on the list.  The countdown of the TOP 113 begins December 1st on KJRW.*

*If we are able to renew our subscription with Live365.com

You can help us stay online by making a donation.

TOP TEN

The Hives were still on top this past week, while other songs played musical chairs.  These are the most popular tunes on KJRW:

1. Abra Cadaver - Hives
2. Tall - Prat Attack
3. Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana
4. American Idiot - Green Day
5. The Hardest Button to Button - White Stripes
6. Look Back and Laugh - Minor Threat
7. Below Merlot - Vacancies
8. Get Over You - Undertones
9. Steady, As She Goes - Raconteurs
10. Rock the Casbah - Clash

Which of these songs will make it onto the Top 112 of 2012? 
Vote for your favorite song on the KJRW Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/KJRW.WestSeattle.

MARCH OF THE PIGS

I don't think March was a lion nor a lamb.  So let's go with Trent Reznor and call it a pig.  I don't know why.  Anyway...  The KJRW-West Seattle Facebook Page saw a 10% increase in "likes" due to the March Madness Facebook Page Challenge.  Send us a message with your total number of friends who like the page.  You may already be a winner!  http://www.facebook.com/KJRW.WestSeattle

There were a record number of visits to the station page on Live365.com in March - over twelve hundred!  Here is where people were listening:

1. U.S.A.
2. Italy
3. Canada
4. Sweden
5. France
6. Brazil
7. Malaysia
8. Slovak Republic
9. Netherlands
10. Republic of Korea

The places in the U.S. listening the most were:

1. California
2. Washington
3. Ohio
4. Texas
5. Nevada
6. Colorado
7. Pennsylvania
8. Illinois
9. New Jersey
10. Oregon

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

Here are the top rated songs on KJRW for the end of March:

1. Friction - Television
2. Mic Check - More of Anything
3. Drinking Song - Gits
4. Closer - Nine Inch Nails
5. Where the River Flows - Collective Soul
6. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
7. Alone, Together - Strokes
8. Rocking Horse - Dead Weather
9. Sonic Reducer - Dead Boys
10. Poor and Weird - Briefs

Not much change from last week's list.  But, we may see a big change in next week's list with the sound switch coming this weekend.

The March Madness Facebook Page Challenge ends tomorrow!  Will you be the one with the most friends who like the KJRW-West Seattle Page? http://www.facebook.com/KJRW.WestSeattle

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

Seattle's More of Anything soars back to the top.  Catch them at the Skylark in West Seattle on the 23rd, if you are in the area.  Here are this week's top ten songs on KJRW:

1. Mic Check - More of Anything
2. Bruises - Band of Skulls
3. Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry
4. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
5. Should I Stay Or Should I Go? - Clash
6. Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2
7. Kid - Pretenders
8. Have A Cigar - Foo Fighters
9. The KKK Took My Baby Away - Ramones
10. Pretty Noose - Soundgarden

The U2 Weekend has begun on KJRW, celebrating St. Patrick's Day Weekend with our favorite band from Ireland.

We're halfway through March, which means you only have a couple more weeks to complete the March Madness KJRW Facebook Page Challenge.  http://www.facebook.com/KJRW.WestSeattle  Will you be the one with the most friends who "like" the page?

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

The new song gets knocked down a peg by an old song this week.  Here are the top ten songs getting the "thumbs up" on KJRW:

1. Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry
2. Bruises - Band of Skulls
3. This Job Sucks - Gang Green
4. Should I Stay Or Should I Go? - Clash
5. Kid - Pretenders
6. I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage
7. Trust - Generationals
8. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
9. Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2
10. Superstition - Kills

We're just over a week into the KJRW March Madness Facebook Challenge.  Accept the Challenge at http://www.facebook.com/KJRW.WestSeattle.  The person with the most friends that 'like' the page at the end of the month wins!

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

The brand new Band of Skulls song shoots straight to number one.  Conversely, the new Red Hot Chili Peppers song is a cellar dweller.  Here is the top ten list for the last week of February:

1. Bruises - Band of Skulls
2. This Job Sucks - Gang Green
3. Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2
4. Trust - Generationals
5. I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage
6. Superstition - Kills
7. Kundalini Express - Love and Rockets
8. Typical Girls - Slits
9. Pretty Noose - Soundgarden
10. Girl Is On My Mind - Black Keys

I was just looking at tickets for the Black Keys/Arctic Monkeys show in Seattle in May.  I would really like to go, but can't see parting with 50 bucks for a nosebleed seat.

Songs from Avengers, Fugazi, Nirvana and more just added to the list on KJRW.

By the way, have you taken step two of the challenge at http://www.facebook.com/KJRW.WestSeattle?

LONG TIME

In February, listeners spent more time with KJRW than ever - over a thousand hours!  This pushed the station up to its highest rank amongst all the stations (and all the rock stations) on Live365.com since its creation in December of 2010.  Here is where most people are listening:

• U.S.A.
• Italy
• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Switzerland
• Sweden
• Greece
• Ireland
• Portugal

The March Madness Facebook Page Challenge began today.  Accept the Challenge at http://www.facebook.com/KJRW.WestSeattle.