SUMMERTIME ROLLS

Summer is here and the time is right for NEW WAVE SUMMER.  We are about 12 hours away from launching New Wave Summer on KJRW as we sit here typing this.  By the time you read this, it may have already begun.  You will hear Joy Division, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Tears for Fears, and many other New Wave bands all summer long on KJRW.  

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock. New wave moved away from blues and rock and roll sounds to create rock music (early new wave) or pop music (later) that incorporated disco, mod, and electronic music.  - Wikipedia

Taking its name from the French New Wave cinema of the late 1950s, this catchall classification was defined in opposition to punk (which was generally more raw, rough edged, and political) and to mainstream “corporate” rock (which many new wave upstarts considered complacent and creatively stagnant). - Britannica

During the late '70s and early '80s, New Wave was a catch-all term for the music that directly followed punk rock; often, the term encompassed punk itself, as well. - AllMusic

No matter your definition, get ready for a fun summer with KJRW.

Listening time is up 20% in June.  That places us at 75% of our goal to stay online at the end of October.  Thanks for listening to KJRW!

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 June)

Your favorite tunes on KJRW in the middle of June are:

1. Repeater - Fugazi
2. Henrietta - Fratellis
3. Drug Train - Social Distortion
4. All Apologies - Nirvana
5. Ripe - Screaming Females
6. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
7. Search and Destroy - Stooges
8. Pigs In Zen - Jane's Addiction
9. I Just Wanna Have Something To Do - Ramones 
10. Cannonball - Breeders

New Wave Summer rolls in next week!  The next top ten might include the Cars, Eurythmics or Men At Work...

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

Are you ready for the Summer? New Wave Summer rolls in later this month!

Last month, our rank held steady on Live365. KJRW remains in the top 25 rock stations on the site. (There are over 500 of them.)

The average time people spent listening to KJRW in May was a bit higher than in April. The United States still tops the list of listeners, with the most time spent with KJRW in:

• Seattle, WA
• Chicago, IL
• Las Vegas, NV
• Atlanta, GA
• Philadelphia, PA
• Sacramento and Los Angeles, CA
• Detroit and Grand Rapids, MI
• Albany, NY
• Minneapolis, MN
• Orlando, FL

People are rocking out to KJRW in other parts of the globe, such as:  Canada, China, Spain, Belarus, Germany, New Zealand, Peru, Hungary and France.

Your favorite songs in May were:

1. We Are the One - Avengers
2. Straight To Hell - Clash
3. Lexicon Devil - Germs
4. Seether - Veruca Salt
5. Gone Daddy Gone - Violent Femmes
6. Two of a Kind - Beat Dolls
7. Everlong - Foo Fighters
8. Hey Girl - Tacocat
9. Self Esteem - Offspring
10. Fall Behind Me - Donnas

We noticed Live365 added pop up ads to our station page that start playing randomly.  We are as annoyed by this as you are.  We clicked on "Feedback" and told them, and so should you.  Once again, KJRW receives NO MONEY from ADS, pop up or otherwise. Download the FREE Live365 app to listen to KJRW without the pop up ads chiming in at odd moments.

TOP TEN

The songs shuffle around as Summer turns to Fall.  Here is this week's list of Top Ten tracks on KJRW:

1. The Happy Song - Poets of the Fall
2. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Devo
3. Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry
4. Soup Is Good Food - Dead Kennedys
5. Sugar Kane - Sonic Youth
6. One More Thing - L7
7. Mind Your Manners - Pearl Jam
8. Dancing With Myself - Generation X
9. Wild Thing - X
10. So Alive - Love and Rockets

Listen for songs getting their first spins on KJRW from:  Flipper, The Descendents, Green Apple Quick Step and more!