OCTOBER and KINGDOMS RISE and KINGDOMS FALL

Hope you enjoyed Punk Rock Weekend.  Listening time increased 13% in the past month!  You pushed the play button over 800 times and spent close to 3 thousand hours with KJRW.  Thanks for checking us out in the U.S., Germany, Canada, France, Spain, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Australia, Ecuador, and Slovenia.

KJRW takes you Under the Covers once again on the weekend of the 20th.  It will be a weekend full of punk rock cover songs.

We're also sprinkling in some spooky songs leading up to Halloween.

All Request Fall continues on KJRW....


....for as long as Radionomy keeps us online.  They dropped us an email saying the ax will fall on the 28th if listening does not keep rising.  So, keep pressing that play button and tell your friends to do the same!

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

YOU DID IT!

KJRW lives to fight another day!  

We never received a congratulatory letter from Radionomy, but we're still online.

Thanks for listening in the U.S., France, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Macedonia, Hungary, Poland, U.K., Spain, Thailand, Mexico, Estonia, Italy, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Singapore, Argentina, Israel and all over the globe.

And thanks to our friends at Birch Street Radio for their support and a possible Plan B.  Dan's the Man.  Please listen to them for all the stuff KJRW doesn't play.  True variety on Birch Street Radio.

Keep listening to KJRW as All Request Fall continues.  Radionomy may check on our hours again soon.  

Spooky tunes will be haunting you this weekend through Halloween on KJRW!

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

 

 

Hey, look at all the folks who dressed up in costumes for the Halloween themed Shadowland Pub Quiz!  It was a fun night of thrills and chills. One trivia team answered all of the questions correctly in the KJRW round.  Scott M.X. hosts the quiz every Monday night at 8 p.m.  KJRW is there the last Monday of every month.

There were over sixteen hundred visits to the station page in October.  Hope you enjoyed the Great PUNKin Tunes as much as we did.  Your favorite songs of the month were:

1. Clampdown - Clash
2. What Do I Get? - Buzzcocks
3. Suburban Home - Descendents
4. It's A Shame About Ray - Lemonheads
5. When You Find Out - Nerves
6. Change the World - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
7. One More Minute - Authority Zero
8. We Care A Lot - Faith No More
9. Song 2 - Blur
10. Personality Crisis - New York Dolls

People listened the most in the U.S., Canada, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Spain, Mexico, Sweden, Germany, France and Angola.  Inside the U.S., listening was highest in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Tampa, Detroit, Kansas City, Chicago, Las Vegas and Washington, D.C.

November is the last month of our fifth year online.  You can help keep KJRW online with a donation.  It is also the last month of ALL Request FALL.  Get your requests in now while you can at kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com.

WHAT'S GOING ON (In Mid-October)

We're midway through October and ALL Request FALL on KJRW.  The most-requested songs currently are:

1. Season of the Witch - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
2. All Apologies - Nirvana
3. Indecent - The Spunk Lads
4. Wanted To Be Your - Spoon
5. Empty Head - Screaming Females
6. Dangerous - Big Data
7. Paul Revere - Beastie Boys
8. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
9. I Was Wrong - Social Distortion
10. Quitter - The Rhones

Listen for the Great Punkin Tunes the rest of the October.  Get the KJRW Halloween T-shirt. 
And join us in costume THIS MONDAY at the Shadowland Pub Quiz.  Scott M.X. is Quizmaster Extraordinaire at Shadowland  every Monday night.   Shadowland is located at the corner of  California and Oregon in West Seattle.  Come Out and Play one of the rare INDEPENDENT trivia nights with NO ENTRY FEE.  Don't settle for a nationwide chain-quiz!  The Shadowland Pub Quiz is written fresh every week here in West Seattle.  KJRW presents the music question round the last Monday of each month.

WHAT'S GOING ON (At the Beginning of October)

September was a great month for KJRW.  The station reached its highest rank ever on Live365.com.
There were over 2 thousand visits to the station page last month.

People spent the most time listening to KJRW since last spring.  Where were they listening?  In the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, Belarus, Sweden, New Zealand, Mexico and Italy.  Washington, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, New York, California, Tennessee, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Kentucky were the places inside the U.S. with the most listeners.

And we got to hang out with the Dollyrots at the Crocodile Café in the middle of September.

They are currently working on their first live CD/DVD.  You can get the scoop on that and even suggest a title they may use here:  http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/dollyrotslive/updates/59837.


ALL Request FALL continues on KJRW.  Send us some spooky Halloween song suggestions at kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com.  The most requested tunes on KJRW right now are:

1. Dangerous - Big Data
2. Paul Revere - Beastie Boys
3. Quitter - Rhones
4. Indecent - Spunk Lads
5. I Was Wrong - Social Distortion
6. Empty Head - Screaming Females
7. Change the World - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
8. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
9. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
10. Look Back and Laugh - Minor Threat

WHAT'S GOING ON (near the end of October)

Live365 VIPs are spending more time with KJRW lately.  VIPs get to listen commercial-free.  If you would like to test drive VIP for free for 5 days, click here.

Joan Jett was honored as Rocker of the Year by Little Kids Rock this past week, and we're happy to see she tops the list of your current favorite songs on KJRW:

1. Season of the Witch - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
2. People Who Died - Jim Carroll Band
3. The Busdrivers - Josh's Shirt
4. Feel the Pain - Dinosaur Jr.
5. Pirate Song - Go Betty Go
6. Perfect Storm - Strypes
7. Oh My God - Kaiser Chiefs
8. Till I Get My Way - Black Keys
9. Kundalini Express - Love and Rockets
10. Goodnight Tonight - Dollyrots

More spooky tunes for Halloween week coming your way on KJRW.  College Rock continues in November.  In December, our contract is up for renewal with Live365.  Help us stay online with a small donation at http://www.gofundme.com/KJRW-WestSeattle.

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

People have visited the KJRW station page at Live365.com 55 thousand times!

Your favorite songs this week were:

1. Till I Get My Way - Black Keys
2. Pirate Song - Go Betty Go
3. Goodnight Tonight - Dollyrots
4. Oh My God - Kaiser Chiefs
5. Stray - Heatmiser
6. Damaged Goods - Gang of Four
7. Perfect Storm - Strypes
8. How Soon Is Now - Smiths
9. The Wait - Pretenders
10. Dresden Dolls - Fall

More spooky tunes as we get closer to Halloween.  More college rock in November.  And then...

We're not sure what will happen in December.  Our contract will be up with Live365.  If we don't raise enough money to renew, KJRW may go silent.  You can keep us online if you become a VIP, or donate what you can at http://www.gofundme.com/KJRW-WestSeattle.

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...

SEPTEMBER MOURN

September has ended, so it is time to wake up and check our stats.  There were no record highs or lows for the month, and our rank on Live365.com remained the same.  The number of times KJRW was made a preset station was the highest it has been since May.  More streams were launched in September than in August.  And we hit the milestone of 35 thousand visits to the station page.

People spent the most time listening to KJRW in the U.S., Canada, Czech Republic, Spain, Mexico, Morocco, Slovenia, Germany, Hungary and Italy.  Inside the U.S., listeners remained with KJRW the longest in Montgomery, AL; Seattle, WA; New York, NY; Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA; Washington, DC; Oklahoma City, OK; Phoenix, AZ; Charlotte, NC and Denver, CO.

As Halloween approaches, be sure to send us your spooky song suggestions.

OCTOBER SKY IS THE LIMIT

Hello and welcome to November.  Hope you had a great pumpkin Halloween and enjoyed all the spooky tunes on KJRW.  We wish listeners on the east coast a speedy recovery from Superstorm Sandy. 

October was a pretty good month for KJRW.  During the second half, our numbers climbed to new heights.  People spent the most time listening since the station was created.  The largest number of streams were launched.  We ended the month with the highest rank KJRW has ever had among all the thousands of stations on Live365.

Thanks for listening in:

• America
• Italy
• Sweden
• South Africa
• Germany
• Canada
• Mexico
• Israel
• Brazil
• Czech Republic

and inside the U.S.:

• Texas
• Illinois
• New Hampshire
• Washington
• Washington, D.C.
• Alabama
• Wyoming
• North Carolina
• Pennsylvania
• Tennessee

TOP TEN

Seattle's own Prat Attack takes the top spot from the Pixies!  Check out which songs got the "thumbs up" on KJRW this week:

1. Tall - Prat Attack
2. Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana
3. Monkey Gone to Heaven - Pixies
4. Rocket - Smashing Pumpkins
5. Bang On - Breeders
6. Rock the Casbah - Clash
7. Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing - Minutemen
8. Welcome to Paradise - Green Day
9. The Hardest Button to Button - White Stripes
10. Steady, As She Goes - Raconteurs

Your spooky song suggestions are on KJRW now through Halloween, so be sure to have it on during your Halloween party!

TOP TEN

The Pixies stay in the number one slot.  The rest of the list has changed completely.  Here are the songs that KJRW listeners gave the "thumbs up" to this week:

1. Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
2. Rocket - Smashing Pumpkins
3. Bang On - Breeders
4. Welcome To Paradise - Green Day
5. Till I Get My Way - Black Keys
6. Steady, As She Goes - Raconteurs
7. Get Over You - Undertones
8. Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
9. Hope - Descendents
10. Ruby Soho - Rancid

Still taking your spooky song suggestions at kjrw@comcast.net for Halloween.

T-Shirt Time

Halloween-themed t-shirts are available at the KJRW Corner Store  http://www.cafepress.com/kjrwwestseattle
now through the end of the month!

http://www.cafepress.com/kjrwwestseattle.709093882

http://www.cafepress.com/kjrwwestseattle.709093883

Get one before they disappear!

TOP TEN

Soundgarden drops down to number two, as the Pixies replace them at number one this week.  Here's the list:

1. Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
2. Bleed Together - Soundgarden
3. Trust - Generationals
4. Rock & Roll Queen - Subways
5. Wonderful - Circle Jerks
6. Please Play This Song on the Radio - NOFX
7. Hip Like Junk - 7 Year Bitch
8. Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
9. Let Yourself Go - Green Day
10. B Is for Brutus - Hives

More songs that have never been on KJRW before were just added.  Remember to email the title of your favorite spooky tune to kjrw@comcast.net to hear it on Halloween.

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

Yesterday, I posted a list of 10 Halloween songs that are not on KJRW.  Here are the 10 most popular songs that are on KJRW this week (with one Halloween tune making the list):

1. Kitty - Presidents of the United States of America
2. Have A Cigar - Foo Fighters
3. Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
4. Dance With Me - Dollyrots
5. Rock 'N' Roll High School - Shonen Knife
6. Gardening At Night - R.E.M.
7. Death By Diamonds and Pearls - Band of Skulls
8. Tommy the Cat - Primus
9. On A Plain - Telekinesis
10. Punk Rock 101 - Bowling for Soup

Enjoy all the spooky tunes. 
And don't forget to get your KJRW Halloween T-shirt at http://www.cafepress.com/KJRWWestSeattle before they disappear.

A TOP TEN YOU WON'T HEAR ON KJRW

From Billboard.com:  "Never mind those sugary sweets. Halloween brings some delectable ear candy, too. But which (witch?) Halloween songs are the most popular?"

1. Thriller - Michael Jackson
2. Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers
3. Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
4. Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
5. Highway To Hell - AC/DC
6. A Nightmare On My Street - D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
7. Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
8. Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
9. Runnin' With The Devil - Van Halen
10. Witchy Woman - Eagles

I enjoyed playing half of that list while on Seattle's Classic Rock Station.  But, I picked a bigger and better list for KJRW.  Listen... if you dare!