NEW SONG

Hey, so we got some news from Radionomy that we would like to share:  
"In order to promote a wide international community of independent artists and young talents, Radionomy joins its sister company Jamendo Licensing to provide the Producers of radio stations Radionomy with musical streams regularly updated in more than 20 different music genres such as Pop Rock, Classical, World, Britpop and many more.
From now on, you'll be able at your convenience to select tracks among these various streams...  and add them into your own music... Using Radionomy Streams is optional, however, from May 15, 2018, in order to promote emergent artists and reduce a little bit the broadcasting costs, Radionomy will inject in your planning one of these Jamendo tracks, selected in the music genre of your station, every 3 hours (either approximately 2% of your playlist), only if none of these tracks has been scheduled in the planning for three hours."

What does this mean?  Our interpretation is that Radionomy will somehow offset some of their costs by forcing every station on their site to play music from their sister company.  It's true that most of the music KJRW plays was created decades ago, but we are not unwilling to play new songs.  In fact, it is inspiring to hear new alternative/punk rock.  We enjoy playing new tracks from indie artists, and encourage new bands to send us their music.  Just the other day, a band from Portland, OR, Riot AF sent their new single to kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com.  We are happy to add it to our playlist.  However, the idea of some random song popping up every few hours is not appealing.  
Check out Radionomy's list of categories of music:

One punk song.  ONE.  And we listened to it.  It's not very punk rock.  What exactly is Drone Music?  Will some Gangsta Rap suddenly emerge from your speaker while listening to KJRW?  Tune in this week to find out.

Better yet, listen this weekend for a KJRW Punk Rock Weekend!  Nothing but Punk Rock all weekend long on KJRW --- well ya know, except for the occasional Jazz track Radionomy inserts.

WHAT'S GOING ON (in the beginning of March)

March has come in like a lion, with a bunch of technical difficulties from Radionomy.  Songs were repeated over and over and there was dead air for many hours.  It was as frustrating for us as it was to you, we are sure.  It seems that we are back on course now. (We hope!)

KJRW's first month on Radionomy went pretty well.  We uploaded close to 7 hundred songs by over a hundred  different artists.  Our audience grew steadily through February, as we lingered Under the Covers.  Close to a thousand streams were launched.  People spent almost 12 hundred hours listening in:

1. U.S.A.
2. Canada
3. Sweden
4. France
5. Brazil
6. U.K.
7. Japan
8. Mexico
9. Italy
10. Serbia

Help us reach our goal of adding 10 more hours of listening per day by the end of March.  Share the station on Facebook and Twitter.  Or do it the old fashioned way and talk to to a friend about KJRW.  If you enjoy it, they may also.

Listen for Green Day every hour on St. Patrick's Day!

And stay tuned to learn how you could win cold, hard cash from 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 (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 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 December)

KJRW's fifth year online has begun with lots of 90's Alternative Rock.  A couple hundred streams were launched in the first week of December.  We were made a favorite station a handful of times.  And there are lots more twitter followers.  Your current favorite songs on KJRW are:

1. Cannonball - Breeders
2. Closer - Nine Inch Nails
3. Spoonman - Soundgarden
4. Corona - Minutemen
5. You - Candlebox
6. Rise Above - Black Flag
7. Bonzo Goes To Bitburg - Ramones
8. Santa Monica - Everclear
9. Glycerine - Bush
10. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus

Listen for Punk Rock Christmas tunes soon on KJRW...

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

The play button on KJRW was clicked for the 40 thousandth time yesterday.  A couple hundred of those streams were launched during the first week of September.  A few people made KJRW their favorite station on Live365.com this last week.  But, people are not listening for long amounts of time, so our rank slipped a bit.  You've heard College Rock on KJRW for the past few days, and a few songs made it into the Top Ten:

1. In Bloom - Nirvana
2. Radio Free Europe - R.E.M.
3. Rock & Roll Queen - Subways
4. Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers
5. Prison Bound - Social Distortion
6. Girlsized - Glitter Mini 9
7. Phenomena - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8. Perfect Storm - Strypes
9. Everybody's Out - Dum Dum Girls
10. Dear God - XTC

MEN ARE APRIL WHEN THEY WOO

Now that we are midway through May, let's talk about April.  Ahhh April, when there was only one day without a deejay.  More people listened on this April Fool's Day than on any other we have endured on KJRW.  And it was all uphill from there!





The play button was pressed over 12 hundred times.  The KJRW page at Live365.com was visited over 2 thousand times.  People spent the most time listening since the station was created!  Consequently, KJRW achieved the highest rank among all the stations on Live365 ever!

XMAS IN FEBRUARY

Was it the love songs?  KJRW saw its biggest jump in listening and rank ever during the month of February!  There were over 11 hundred streams launched during the short month.  We were made a preset station a dozen more times.  People spent the most time listening to KJRW in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Greece, Hungary, Denmark, Italy and Finland.  Inside the U.S., Washington, Alabama, Ohio, Arizona, California, Texas, Colorado, Arkansas, Minnesota and Tennessee were tops in listening.  Thanks for showing KJRW the love in February!

NOVEMBER

November was the last month of KJRW's third year online.  Over a thousand streams were launched - the most times the play button has been clicked since July.  However, people spent a little less time listening to KJRW than in October, so our rank slipped a bit.

Listeners spent the most time with KJRW in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Spain, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Australia and Italy.  Inside the U.S. listening was tops in Seattle, WA; Denver, Co; Montgomery, AL; Washington, DC; Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA; Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN; Phoenix, AZ; Chicago, IL and Oklahoma City, OK.

KJRW began its fourth year online with a countdown of the Top 113 of 2013, all of your favorite songs from the past year.  Lots more to come in 2014, including a Dive Under the Covers this winter and New Wave Summer.  Make any theme or song suggestions here.

Thanks for listening and contributing to the fund drive to keep KJRW online!

WHEN OCTOBER GOES

KJRW's rank rose considerably during the month of October.  We're now in the top 6% of the hundreds of rock stations on Live365.  More streams were launched in October than in September and August.

Listeners spent the most time with KJRW since March.  Those with VIP subscriptions listened double the amount of that in September.  People listened for free the longest time in almost a year.

Where they were listening the most:  U.S., Spain, Germany, Canada, France, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Denmark and U.K.  Inside the U.S.:  Seattle, WA; Montgomery, AL; New York, NY; San Diego and Los Angeles, CA; Austin, TX; Phoenix, AZ; Pittsburgh, PA; Denver, CO and Washington, DC.

The bad news is that KJRW's subscription with Live365.com runs out at the end of November.  But, you can help keep us online another year with a donation at gofundme.com/KJRW-WestSeattle.

JUNE ON THE WEST COAST

KJRW celebrated Women Who Rock during the month of June, to coincide with the opening of the Women Who Rock exhibit at the EMP Museum in Seattle Center.  We thought it sounded great, but not many people heard it.  The least number of streams were launched of the past year.  The average amount of time listeners spent with KJRW increased a tiny bit since the last couple months, but our rank has slipped.

People were listening in the U.S., Spain, Italy, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Sweden, Uruguay, Slovenia, and Chile the most.

Inside the U.S., people listened to KJRW regularly in Washington, California, Alabama, North Carolina, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Arizona, New Jersey and Nebraska.

Enjoy Independence Day in the U.S., and New Wave Summer on KJRW!

COME WHAT MAY

KJRW reached a few milestones in May.  Near the end of the month, we saw that over 25 thousand streams had been launched, people had spent over 21 thousand hours listening, and there had been over 27 thousand  visits to the station page on Live365.com.  In fact, May saw the most visits to the station page ever.  However, listening time lessened.  Consequently, KJRW's rank dipped down to where it was at the beginning of the year.

Listening to KJRW the most were people in the U.S., Italy, Germany, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Uruguay, Spain, Denmark and the United Arab Emirates.  Inside the U.S., people spent the most time listening in Seattle (WA), San Francisco (CA), Montgomery (AL), Los Angeles (CA), Minneapolis (MN), Chicago (IL), Lansing (MI), Albuquerque (NM), Atlanta (GA) and West Palm Beach (FL).

KJRW celebrates "Women Who Rock" in June.  And New Wave Summer crashes in soon!

IF APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS...

KJRW played the worst songs we have ever heard on April 1st.  Sure, it has become an April Fool's tradition to change format on KJRW, but I think we crossed a line.  Our rank fell to about where it was before March because people spent less time listening in April.  KJRW was made a preset station almost double the amount of times it was the previous month, though.  And there were almost 2 thousand visits to the station page on Live365.  Our big achievement in April was the most streams launched ever!

People were listening to the station in the U.S., Italy, Canada, Spain, U.K., Germany, Chile, Mexico, Slovak Republic and Bulgaria.

Tops for listening to KJRW inside the U.S. were Seattle, WA; Youngstown, OH; San Francisco, CA; Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN; Portland, OR; Tampa, FL; Springfield, IL; Las Vegas, NV; Dallas, TX and Montgomery, AL.

The SUGGESTION BOX is open.

NOVEMBER REIGN

KJRW's second year ended on a good note.  November saw more streams launched than ever.  People spent the most time listening, including those with paid subscriptions to Live365.  (KJRW gets a penny for every 3 hours a VIP listens.)  Our rank was the highest it's been among the hundreds of rock stations and thousands of stations of every genre on Live365.com.

People listened the most in these countries:

• U.S.
• S. Africa
• Canada
• Sweden
• Brazil
• Italy
• Germany
• Chile
• Peru
• Mexico

and within the U.S.:

• New Hamphire
• California
• Illinois
• Washington
• Texas
• N. Carolina
• Alabama
• Idaho
• Georgia
• Wyoming

We hope you enjoyed our celebration with the Top112 of 2012.  We thought it was fun.  Now, on with our third year...

JUNE IS BUSTING OUT ALL OVER

KJRW has reached its highest rank ever among the thousands of stations on Live365.com!  We're in the top 5% among all stations and in the top 3% among rock stations.  This is because people spent more time listening to KJRW in June than ever before.  Most of those people were also "VIP"s, which means I will get a penny for every 3 hours they listened.  Some cool things about being a Live365 VIP include being able to listen commercial-free and that part of the subscription fee goes to the artists that write the songs that get played.  Click here http://www.live365.com/rewards/pm?tag=member_10222739915 if you are interested in becoming a VIP.  Sign up by that link and they'll throw a few bucks my way.

In June, people listened to KJRW from:

1. U.S.
2. Peru
3. Italy
4. Canada
5. Netherlands
6. Japan
7. Brazil
8. Philippines
9. Spain
10. Malaysia

and in the U.S.:

1. Seattle, WA
2. Phoenix, AZ
3. Los Angeles, CA
4. Manchester, NH
5. Montgomery, AL
6. Austin, TX
7. Cincinnati, OH
8. Washington, DC
9. Raleigh-Durham, NC
10. Cleveland, OH

APRIL WHINE

People spent over eight hundred hours listening to KJRW in April. They were listening the most in:

• America
• Canada
• Italy
• Japan
• Sweden
• Macedonia
• Germany
• Finland
• Brazil
• Hungary

Unfortunately, we didn't set any records in April.  However within the next couple of days,  we will reach the milestone of ten thousand listening hours since KJRW was created.  There have been over twelve thousand visits to the station page and streams launched during the time KJRW has been online. 

May 2nd is my birthday, and I think it would be the coolest gift if the day saw the most streams launched ever.  All it would take is a few moments of your time.  Just click this link:  http://www.live365.com/stations/member_10222739915?play=1
and then click the play button.  Listen to a couple songs.  You might like them even if you never heard them before.