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.

IN BLOOM

During the month of April, you clicked the play button 13 hundred times and listened to KJRW for 17 hundred hours.Thanks for spending time with KJRW in the U.S., Germany, France, Sweden, Canada, Austria, New Zealand, Greece, Uruguay, Italy, Poland, and the U.K.

You put in the time, and you shall be rewarded with more music!  That's right, Radionomy decided we have enough listening time to give us more space for more songs.  More Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Stooges, Green Day, Joy Division, Jane's Addiction, and more.  We just doubled our Clash folder!  Our Spring Fling continues.  You're gonna love it.

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.