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.

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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/

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

Hope you enjoyed the "love" songs on KJRW this past week, and they made you feel all gooey inside. The station's rank continues to inch higher day by day. About 700 streams have been launched so far this month, and people have spent almost a thousand hours listening to KJRW in the last couple weeks. Your current favorite songs are:

1. Radar Love - Ministry
2. Underground - Sneaker Pimps
3. Bodies - Sex Pistols
4. Nearly Lost You - Screaming Trees
5. Merchandise - Fugazi
6. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
7. Violet - Hole
8. Death By Diamonds and Pearls - Band of Skulls
9. Song 2 - Blur
10. Woman - Wolfmother

To vote for your favorite song, click on the thumbs up icon while it's playing on KJRW.

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

Hey Kids! We are very happy to report that January was the best month in KJRW's sordid history!
We were picked as a favorite station the highest number of times in a month ever.  We finally cracked the top thousand of the several thousand stations on Live365.com. There are 500 rock stations on the site, and last month KJRW was ranked number 17!!
People spent the most time listening to KJRW in January also, especially in:

• U.S.A.
• Mexico
• Canada
• Spain
• Switzerland
• Russia
• Czech Republic
• New Zealand
• Slovenia
• Malaysia

Inside the U.S.A., listeners were from:

• Seattle
• Philadelphia
• Los Angeles
• Tampa
• Louisville
• Kansas City
• New York
• Dallas
• Sacramento
• Cincinnati

Your current favorite songs on KJRW are:

1. Natural One - Folk Implosion
2. Love In Plaster - Hives
3. Bodies - Sex Pistols
4. Violet - Hole
5. Song 2 - Blur
6. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
7. Rocket - Smashing Pumpkins
8. Kick Out the Jams - Bad Brains with Henry Rollins
9. If You Could Only See - Tonic
10. Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers

Listen for love songs next week on KJRW...

TOP TEN

Big shake up in the Top Ten tracks this week on KJRW.  A Sex Pistols cover of a Stooges song shoots up to number one.

1. No Fun - Sex Pistols
2. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
3. Primitive - Killing Joke
4. Wendy - Descendents
5. F.T.W. - Vines
6. Drama - L7
7. Lexicon Devil - Germs
8. Strange Love - Cramps
9. What Love Is - Dead Boys
10. Rock & Roll Queen - Subways

This time next week, KJRW will not have a DJ, so we don't know if we'll even have a Top Ten...

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

The Crawls drop down to the second slot, and the Pixies fall to the bottom ten this week on KJRW.

1. So Alive - Love and Rockets
2. No Time Left - Crawls
3. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
4. I Fought the Law - Clash
5. Verse Chorus Verse - Nirvana
6. Good Guys (Don't Wear White) - Minor Threat
7. Wendy - Descendents
8. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
9. We Want the Airwaves - Ramones
10. No Fun - Sex Pistols

Listen for love songs next week on KJRW...

TOP TEN

The end of January finds these songs at the top on KJRW:

1. No Time Left - Crawls
2. Head On - Pixies
3. I Fought the Law - Clash
4. Verse Chorus Verse - Nirvana
5. Ball of Confusion - Love and Rockets
6. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
7. No Fun - Sex Pistols
8. Good Guys (Don't Wear White) - Minor Threat
9. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
10. Wendy - Descendents

We're looking for love songs for mid-February.  Any suggestions?

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

After ten weeks in the top spot, Poets of the Fall have fallen to number two.  Here are the top ten tracks on KJRW this week:

1. Inside Out - Eve 6
2. Psychosis - Poets of the Fall
3. Alone, Together - Strokes
4. I Want To Hear What You Have Got To Say - Subways
5. Place Position - Fugazi
6. I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs
7. One Of My Lies - Green Day
8. Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
9. Skinny Little Bitch - Hole
10. Love Kills - Circle Jerks

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!

Click here to send us your song requests.

TOP TEN

Soundgarden is topped by the Vacancies doing a 7 Seconds song.  Here is the list of KJRW favorites for the last week of January:

1. Satyagraha - Vacancies
2. Bleed Together - Soundgarden
3. Rock 'N' Roll High School - Ramones
4. Know Your Rights - Clash
5. Boredom - Buzzcocks
6. Who Is Who - Adolescents
7. Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
8. Weeping - Prat Attack
9. Wave of Mutilation - Pixies
10. Give Me Everything - Magazine

Lots of songs not heard before on KJRW have just been added.  Listen for Deap Vally and give the gals a thumbs up if you like their song.

TOP TEN

Iggy Pop is at the top for the third week in a row on KJRW.  Here is the first list of 2013:

1. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
2. Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr.
3. Don't Want to Know If You're Lonely - Husker Du
4. Blue Orchid - White Stripes
5. Anarchy in the U.K. - Sex Pistols
6. (I'm) Stranded - Saints
7. Luka - Lemonheads
8. Born To Lose - Heartbreakers
9. (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais - Clash
10. Television's Over - Adverts

Songs are voted into the Top Ten by clicking the "thumbs up" icon on the station page while they are playing on KJRW.

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

If the Mayans were correct, this may be the last countdown we ever hear.  And it will be a good one.  The Top 112 of 2012 begins December 1st - the start of KJRW's third year on Live365.com.

Countdowns are kind of a media year end tradition - a way to tie up the past year in a little bow and present it as a gift for the holidays.  Back in 1999, the program director of Seattle's One and Only Classic Rock Station decided it would be a good idea to countdown the 1,000 best Classic Rock songs of all time.  We all agreed this would be a great way to celebrate the new millennium.  We would reach number one on New Year's Day, provided we were still on the air after Y2K shut down all the computers.  For some reason, the Classic Rock Station still does the thousand song countdown every year between Christmas and New Year's.  The songs are all the same, and Stairway to Heaven is always number one.

KJRW's Top 112 of 2012 is not a rehash of the same old songs.  It is not even the same as the Top 111 of 2011.  For starters, it goes to 112, that's one higher.  (This is Spinal Tap reference)  Nirvana had the most songs on the list last year, but this year only have two.  We would be willing to bet at least half the songs on this year's list were not on last year's, and the ones that do make a return trip are not at the same rank.  The Top 112 is not your typical list of the top punk songs, either.  Surprisingly, there's no Dead Kennedys, Replacements, Minor Threat nor Misfits, and only one Sex Pistols song. 

Now that we have said what the Top 112 of 2012 is not, let us tell you what it is.  This compilation is made up of the songs that were in the Top Ten lists this year because they got the thumbs up from KJRW listeners.  We sat here and counted all of them.  Some of the results were very unexpected.  But what you can expect to hear is the Ramones, Clash, Pretenders, Soundgarden, White Stripes, Strokes and more.

The Top 112 of 2012 starts Saturday on KJRW.  http://www.live365.com/stations/member_10222739915?play=1 
The full list will be posted here soon. 

KJRW TOP TEN

A title that I love tops the list.  Here are the 10 favorite songs on KJRW this week:

1. Everyday I Love You Less and Less - Kaiser Chiefs
2. We Want the Airwaves - Ramones
3. Kerb Crawler - Au Pairs
4. Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
5. Vive Le Rock - Adam Ant
6. Kiss Them for Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
7. Over - Sugarcult
8. Train In Vain  - Clash
9. The Hardest Button to Button - White Stripes
10. Hash Pipe - Weezer

Enjoy your Memorial Day Weekend, and listen for just added tracks from Social Distortion, Sex Pistols, Minor Threat and more!

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

Here it is in Black (Keys) and White (Stripes), the first KJRW Top 10 list of May:

1. Over - Sugarcult
2. New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones - Fear
3. Train In Vain - Clash
4. Keep Me - Black Keys
5. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
6. Bleed Together - Soundgarden
7. Mic Check - More of Anything
8. Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders
9. Too Bad About Your Girl - Donnas
10. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow

Brand new Pennywise and Jack White songs, as well as more Ramones and Sex Pistols added to the song list!

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

It's Bring Out the Thrash Week on KJRW, but none of the thrash songs made it into the top ten.  Here's what did:

1. Keep Me - Black Keys
2. Kiss Them for Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
3. Where the River Flows - Collective Soul
4. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
5. Trust - Generationals
6. Closer - Nine Inch Nails
7. Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders
8. Kundalini Express - Love and Rockets
9. Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2
10. Bodies - Sex Pistols

More Nine Inch Nails, Ministry and other songs added this weekend!