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

Midway through December, KJRW is back in the top 20% of the stations streaming on Live365.com.  People are spending more time with us, listening to all the cover tunes.  Your favorite songs currently are:

1. All I Want - Offspring
2. Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
3. Imagine - A Perfect Circle
4. Come On, Let's Go - Girl in a Coma
5. Scoff - Nirvana
6. Friend to Friend in Endtime - Lungfish
7. Ghost Town - Specials
8. Porch - Pearl Jam
9. Clampdown - Clash
10. Plowed - Sponge

Watch this space for the big list of all your favorite songs of the year, the Top 115 of 2015 later this month.  KJRW adds Punk Rock Christmas tunes to the mix this week.  

FYI, since Last Monday falls between Christmas and New Year's this month, our guest round of the Shadowland Pub Quiz is postponed until Monday, January 4, 2016.

TOP TEN

There's a shake up at the top this week on KJRW:

1. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
2. New Radio - Bikini Kill
3. So Alive - Love and Rockets
4. No Time Left - Crawls
5. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
6. I Fought the Law - Clash
7. Verse Chorus Verse - Nirvana
8. Wendy - Descendents
9. We Want the Airwaves - Ramones
10. No Fun - Sex Pistols

Listen next week to hear songs that haven't been on KJRW before from the Offspring, Audioslave, Nine Inch Nails and more...

TOP TEN

It's almost all covers in the Top Ten tracks this week on KJRW:

1. I Fought the Law - Clash
2. Ball of Confusion - Love and Rockets
3. Verse Chorus Verse - Nirvana
4. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
5. No Fun - Sex Pistols
6. Ring of Fire - Social Distortion
7. I Will Survive - Cake
8. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Devo
9. I Wanna Be Sedated - Offspring
10. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes

There is only one week left of Dive Under the Covers month.  We will soon post a list of all the cover tunes we played.

TOP TEN

The Offspring's cover of a Ramones classic remains at number one in the Top Ten tracks on KJRW this week:

1. I Wanna Be Sedated - Offspring
2. Ring of Fire - Social Distortion
3. These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - 7 Seconds
4. The Wait - Killing Joke
5. Here's To Your Fuck - Gits
6. Suicide - Battered Wives
7. Sundance - Public Works
8. Between the Eyes - Love Battery
9. Dog Style - Viletones
10. The Hardest Button to Button - White Stripes

Covers of songs better known by the Doors, Troggs, Creedence Clearwater Revival and more as Dive Under the Covers month continues on KJRW...

TOP TEN

The top three are covers this week on KJRW, as Dive Under the Covers month ramps up.

1. I Wanna Be Sedated - Offspring
2. Ring of Fire - Social Distortion
3. These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - 7 Seconds
4. The Wait - Killing Joke
5. Between the Eyes - Love Battery
6. Here's To Your Fuck - Gits
7. Sundance - Public Works
8. Wave of Mutilation - Pixies
9. The KKK Took My Baby Away - Ramones
10. Suicide - Battered Wives

Listen for the Fastbacks covering Green River, Poets of the Fall taking on Chris Cornell, My Son the Bum doing the Doors and more this week on KJRW.

TOP TEN

Most of the list stays the same at the end of September.  Here are the top ten tracks on KJRW:

1. The Happy Song - Poets of the Fall
2. Pattern Skies - Greenhornes
3. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Devo
4. Sugar Kane - Sonic Youth
5. Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry
6. Soup Is Good Food - Dead Kennedys
7. Mr. Chivalry - Girl in a Coma
8. One More Thing -L7
9. Pretty Fly for a White Guy - Offspring
10. Wild Thing - X

Listen for lots of songs that haven't been on KJRW before...

TOP TEN

The first list of May finds Poets of the Fall at the top yet again.  In fact, the only big change was Kaiser Chiefs replacing Nirvana.

1. Psychosis - Poets of the Fall
2. I Want to Hear What You Have Got To Say - Subways
3. One of My Lies - Green Day
4. Jackie Chan - Dollyrots
5. Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
6. Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
7. I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs
8. Self Esteem - Offspring
9. Hybrid Moments - Misfits
10. Drug Train - Social Distortion

Soon on KJRW:  the new song from Iggy and the Stooges, as well as tunes from Tool, Shonen Knife, The Bellrays and more!

TOP TEN

Psychosis stays at the top!  Here are the ten tracks that got the highest 'thumbs up' from KJRW listeners this week:

1. Psychosis - Poets of the Fall
2. I Want To Hear What You Have Got To Say - Subways
3. One of My Lies - Green Day
4. Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
5. Breed - Nirvana
6. Jackie Chan - Dollyrots
7. Drug Train - Social Distortion
8. Hybrid Moments - Misfits
9. Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
10. Self Esteem - Offspring

 Tunes from Soundgarden, Iggy Pop, NOFX and more are making their debut on KJRW right now!

TOP TEN

Psychosis is number one for a record 8th week in a row on KJRW.  The rest of the list is completely different:

1. Psychosis - Poets of the Fall
2. Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
3. Breed - Nirvana
4. Jackie Chan - Dollyrots
5. Drug Train - Social Distortion
6. Hybrid Moments - Misfits
7. Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
8. Love Kills - Circle Jerks
9. I Might Need You To Kill - Thermals
10. Self Esteem - Offspring

Listen for the brand new song from Mudhoney on KJRW!

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TOP TEN

"Psychosis" tops the list for the 7th week in a row on KJRW.  Here are the songs getting the "thumbs up":

1. Psychosis - Poets of the Fall
2. Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney
3. Self Esteem - Offspring
4. I Don't Care About You - FEAR
5. No Fun - Stooges
6. Daze of Youth - Barbarian
7. Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry
8. Jane Says - Jane's Addiction
9. Friction - Television
10. Add It Up - Violent Femmes

If you want to see your favorite songs in the Top Ten, click the "thumbs up" icon while they are playing on KJRW.

TOP TEN

"Psychosis" is number one for the sixth week in a row!  Here are the top tracks on KJRW for the first week of April:

1. Psychosis - Poets of the Fall
2. Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney
3. Steady, As She Goes - Raconteurs
4. I Don't Care About You - FEAR
5. Self Esteem - Offspring
6. Mongoloid - Devo
7. Skinny Little Bitch - Hole
8. No Fun - Stooges
9. Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
10. Career Opportunities - Clash

The March scorecard will be posted here in a few days.  Songs from Gossip, Gorilla Biscuits and more will be added to the KJRW playlist soon...

TOP TEN

Poets of the Fall continues its reign at the top.  Here is the list of the most liked songs on KJRW this week:

1. Psychosis - Poets of the Fall
2. Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney
3. B Is for Brutus - Hives
4. I Don't Care About You - FEAR
5. Self Esteem - Offspring
6. Steady, As She Goes - Raconteurs
7. Spiderman - Ramones
8. Kool Thing - Sonic Youth
9. Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
10. Balls Out - Yuckies

Tunes from the Clash, Kills, Nirvana and more just added to the mix.  Remember to give songs the "thumbs up" if you want them to make it into the Top Ten next week.

TOP TEN

Two songs from Under the Covers Week make it onto the list.  Soundgarden stays at the top.  Here are the tunes that got the "Thumbs up" on KJRW this week:

1. Bleed Together - Soundgarden
2. All This and More - Dead Boys
3. I Wanna Be Sedated - Offspring
4. Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
5. Spin the Black Circle - Pearl Jam
6. Loss of Control - Green Day
7. Angry, Young and Poor - Anti-Flag
8. Rehab - Ministry
9. Call Me - Blondie
10. Love In Plaster - Hives

The well-liked cover versions will remain in the mix next week, along with a new Prat Attack song and some old favorites.

SCHOOL DAYS

It's Back-To-School time!  Here a few tidbits about KJRW artists:

Before he joined the Police, Sting was a strict teacher.  He denies the lyrics in "Don't Stand So Close To Me" are autobiographical.

Greg Graffin got his Ph.D at Cornell, and now teaches there when he is not rocking out with Bad Religion.

Dexter Holland was a Ph.D candidate in molecular biology at the University of Southern California, but he gave it up to front The Offspring full-time.

The Descendents' album proclaims Milo Goes To College.  Milo Auckerman did, and earned a Ph.D in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin.

Prior to Nirvana, Kurt Cobain left high school just a few weeks before graduation. He did return later - as a janitor.

Stay in school, kids!