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

All Request Fall is underway on KJRW.  You say it, we play it. Comment with a request or email it.

It is also that time of year we usually ask you to donate to our Go Fund Me page.  But we don't want your money this time.  This year we need something a little more precious in order to stay online -- your time.

If you want KJRW to stay online, you need to listen... a LOT.

Listening time has expanded 60% in just the last 2 weeks.  That's great.  But, we need it to be 43% higher in a few weeks than it is now or KJRW will be silenced.

So download the FREE Radionomy App for your phone or tablet,
or go to http://www.radionomy.com/en/radio/kjrw and spend some time with KJRW.

If just 55 more people spend one hour a day listening, we will meet our goal.

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

We're a week into December and KJRW has been Under the Covers.  There were 500 visits to the station page this week.  There are back-to-back Joan Jett songs on your favorite song list this week, which makes our Jetthead Program Director happy.  There are also a couple cover songs.  Maybe there will be more next time.

1. Scoff - Nirvana
2. Plowed - Sponge
3. Porch - Pearl Jam
4. Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
5. I Wanna Be Where the Boys Are - Runaways
6. Change the World - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
7. Sheena Is a Punk Rocker - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8. Wild Thing - X
9. 1 2 X U - Wire
10. Fell in Love with a Girl - White Stripes

KJRW Declares War on Christmas later this month!  

Get Under the Covers with KJRW all winter long!

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.

THE TOP 114 OF 2014

Merry Christmas!  Here it is:  the big list of your favorite songs you heard on KJRW this year.  The band with the most songs was Nirvana.  The White Stripes had the number one song, but it was the only song they had in the countdown. Just under 20% of the list were tunes from our College Rock and New Wave Summer features. A dozen songs were covers.  Get Under the Covers again with us in January!

1. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
2. The Busdrivers - Josh's Shirt
3. Perfect Storm - Strypes
4. So Alive - Love and Rockets
5. Feel the Pain - Dinosaur Jr.
6. Lexicon Devil - Germs
7. Wendy - Descendents
8. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
9. Get With Me - PINS
10. Oh My God - Kaiser Chiefs
11. Kundalini Express - Love and Rockets
12. I Fought the Law - Clash
13. No Fun - Sex Pistols
14. One Way Or Another - Blondie
15. T.M.I. - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
16. Strange Love - Cramps
17. Kiss Them For Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
18. Rise Above - Black Flag
19. Till I Get My Way - Black Keys
20. People Who Died - Jim Carroll Band
21. Goodnight Tonight - Dollyrots
22. Pirate Song - Go Betty Go
23. Between the Eyes - Love Battery
24. The Guns of Brixton - Clash
25. We Want the Airwaves - Ramones
26. Bad Mouth - Fugazi
27. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
28. One of My Lies - Green Day
29. School Days - Runaways
30. Dancing With Myself - Generation X
31. Sappy - Nirvana
32. Here's To Your Fuck - Gits
33. These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - 7 Seconds
34. Drama - L7
35. State of Love and Trust - Pearl Jam
36. Phenomena - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
37. Grind - Alice In Chains
38. Pablo Picasso - Modern Lovers
39. Dresden Dolls - Fall
40. Destination Anywhere - Sugarcult
41. Electric Band - Wild Flag
42. No Time Left - Crawls
43. You Sound Like You're Sick - Ramones
44. Season of the Witch - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
45. Wild Thing - X
46. Infected - Bad Religion
47. What Love Is - Dead Boys
48. Good Guys (Don't Wear White) - Minor Threat
49. Ring of Fire - Social Distortion
50. I Wanna Be Sedated - Offspring
51. Wave of Mutilation - Pixies
52. Damaged Goods - Gang of Four
53. The Wait - Pretenders
54. Love Buzz - Nirvana
55. I Want It All - Battered Wives
56. Pull A U - Kills
57. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
58. Stray - Heatmiser
59. Rock and Roll Queen - Subways
60. Who Was In My Room Last Night? - Butthole Surfers
61. The Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
62. The Wait - Killing Joke
63. Destroy - Eyeliners
64. Goo Goo Muck - Cramps
65. Everybody's Out - Dum Dum Girls
66. Somebody Else's Baby - Murder City Devils
67. Take Me To Your, Leader - Pudz
68. The Impression That I Get - Mighty Mighty Bosstones
69. I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
70. Over Seasons - Authority Zero
71. Kiss Kiss - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
72. Dog Style - Viletones
73. Money - Flying Lizards
74. Prison Bound - Social Distortion
75. Hellhole - Detroit Diesel Power
76. (I'm Gonna) Run Away - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
77. All This and More - Dead Boys
78. Sliver - Nirvana
79. Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals
80. Suicide - Battered Wives
81. The KKK Took My Baby Away - Ramones
82. New College - Dollyrots
83. Waiting Room - Fugazi
84. Soup Is Good Food - Dead Kennedys
85. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Devo
86. Should I Stay Or Should I Go? - Clash
87. Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers
88. Abra Cadaver - Hives
89. Wrong Way - Sublime
90. Friction - Television
91. New Radio - Bikini Kill
92. Radio Free Europe
93. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
94. Gouge Away - Pixies
95. Andres - L7
96. Bang On - Breeders
97. Lies - Greenhornes
98. Ever Fallen In Love? - Buzzcocks
99. Misunderstood - 7 Year Bitch
100. Girlsized - Glitter Mini 9
101. In Bloom - Nirvana
102. Bored of You - Agent Orange
103. Cocaine - FIDLAR
104. Radio Revolution - Vacancies
105. How Soon Is Now? - Smiths
106. Story of My Life - Social Distortion
107. Seriously - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
108. Whip It - Devo
109. First World Anarchist - Dollyrots
110. Ball of Confusion - Love and Rockets
111. Sundance - Public Works
112. Not My Idea - Garbage
113. So What - Anti-Nowhere League
114. You Know You're Right - Nirvana 

TOP TEN

Big changes in the Top Ten tracks on KJRW this week:

1. Love Buzz - Nirvana
2. Lexicon Devil - Germs
3. Radio Revolution - Vacancies
4. Out of Step - Minor Threat
5. Destination Anywhere - Sugarcult
6. The Guns of Brixton - Clash
7. What Love Is - Dead Boys
8. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
9. The Busdrivers - Josh's Shirt
10. Beat Your Heart Out - Distillers

Next week on KJRW we will feature the new album from The Dollyrots, Barefoot + Pregnant!

TOP TEN

Only a few changes to the list this week.  Here are the Top Ten tracks on KJRW:

1. The Guns of Brixton - Clash
2. Money - Flying Lizards
3. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
4. Rise Above - Black Flag
5. Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks
6. The Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
7. Grind - Alice In Chains
8. Kiss Them For Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
9. Electric Band - Wild Flag
10. (I'm Gonna) Run Away - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Listen for Celtic Punk from Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys and more now through St. Patrick's Day...

TOP TEN

It's musical chairs this week on KJRW, as the songs switch positions from the previous week.

1. The Guns of Brixton - Clash
2. Money - Flying Lizards
3. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
4. The Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
5. Rise Above - Black Flag
6. The Hardest Button to Button - White Stripes
7. Strange Love - Cramps
8. Grind - Alice In Chains
9. Electric Band - Wild Flag
10. I Want It All - Battered Wives

Listen for the Greenhornes, Fratellis, Veruca Salt and more this week on KJRW...

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

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 Runaways are number one this week!  Here are the top ten tracks on KJRW:

1. School Days - Runaways
2. Train In Vain - Clash
3. Minor Threat - Minor Threat
4. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
5. Different - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
6. Wild Thing - X
7. Emotional Blackmail - UK Subs
8. Need You Around - Smoking Popes
9. I Fought the Law - Clash
10. Maxwell Murder - Rancid

Listen for spooky tunes from Godsmack, the Kills, Misfits and more for Halloween week on KJRW...

TOP TEN

Making the list this week is The Smoking Popes from Chicago.  Here are the top ten tracks on KJRW in mid-October:

1. Train In Vain - Clash
2. School Days - Runaways
3. Different - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
4. Emotional Blackmail - UK Subs
5. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
6. Need You Around - Smoking Popes
7. Minor Threat - Minor Threat
8. Pattern Skies - Greenhornes
9. Personality Crisis - New York Dolls
10. Wild Thing - X

Spooky tunes from Bauhaus, The Beat Dolls, The Accused and more coming your way on KJRW...

TOP TEN

New Joan Jett and the Blackhearts make the list!  Here are the top ten tracks on KJRW this week:

1. The Happy Song - Poets of the Fall
2. Train In Vain - Clash
3. School Days - Runaways
4. Different - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
5. Emotional Blackmail - UK Subs
6. The Hardest Button to Button - White Stripes
7. Pattern Skies - Greenhornes
8. Maxwell Murder - Rancid
9. Personality Crisis - New York Dolls
10. Wild Thing - X

Songs from Jeff the Brotherhood, Betty Blowtorch, Dicks and more just added to the mix!

TOP TEN

There a few New Wave songs in the list for the last week of New Wave Summer on KJRW:

1. Dancing With Myself - Generation X
2. So Alive - Love and Rockets
3. The Happy Song - Poets of the Fall
4. Kid - Pretenders
5. Whip It - Devo
6. Possum Kingdom - Toadies
7. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
8. Turning Japanese - Vapors
9. Head Over Heels - Go-Go's
10. Neat Neat Neat - Damned

Listen for new songs from Nine Inch Nails and Pearl Jam on KJRW!  And next week, we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Nirvana's In Utero album.

TOP TEN

The top and bottom stay the same in this week's list of your favorite songs on KJRW:

1. The Happy Song - Poets of the Fall
2. Kid - The Pretenders
3. Whip It - Devo
4. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
5. Head Over Heels - Go-Go's
6. Possum Kingdom - Toadies
7. Dream All Day - Posies
8. Turning Japanese - Vapors
9. Neat Neat Neat - Damned
10. Kiss Them For Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees

Next week is the last week of New Wave Summer.  Listen for songs from Squeeze, Yaz, Pet Shop Boys and more on KJRW.

TOP TEN

Hey, it's another KJRW Top Ten with Poets of the Fall in the number one position:

1. The Happy Song - Poets of the Fall
2. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
3. Whip It - Devo
4. What You Say - Sugarcult
5. Minor Threat - Minor Threat
6. Miss World - Hole
7. What Love Is - Dead Boys
8. Possum Kingdom - Toadies
9. Neat Neat Neat - Damned
10. Kiss Them For Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees

There are less than 2 weeks left of New Wave Summer on KJRW.  Listen for Duran Duran, Madness, Boomtown Rats and more.

TOP TEN

There are a few changes to the list this week, but the Happy Song remains at the top spot on KJRW:

1. The Happy Song - Poets of the Fall
2. Whip It - Devo
3. What You Say - Sugarcult
4. Minor Threat - Minor Threat
5. Miss World - Hole
6. Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine
7. Neat Neat Neat - Damned
8. Kiss Them for Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
9. One Thing - INXS
10. Potential Suicide - Wipers

KJRW favorites from Soundgarden, White Stripes, Iggy and more just added back into the mix.

TOP TEN

Poets of the Fall jump back up into the number one slot this week in the KJRW Top Ten:

1. Psychosis - Poets of the Fall
2. Inside Out - Eve 6
3. Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
4. In My Eyes - Minor Threat
5. Alone, Together - Strokes
6. I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs
7. Skinny Little Bitch - Hole
8. Place Position - Fugazi
9. Potential Suicide - Wipers
10. Wild Thing - X

Listen to KJRW for songs just added from the White Stripes, Pixies and more!