THE FALL

It's the last week of New Wave Summer on KJRW.  
Catch the wave while you can!
 https://www.radionomy.com/en/radio/kjrwseattle/index


You pressed play almost 700 times over the past month and listened for over 2 thousand hours, placing us over halfway to our goal.  Help us raise listening 42% in the next 2 months.  

Thanks for checking out KJRW in the U.S., Germany, Canada, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal, and Italy.


This Friday, get your fill of Foo on FOO FIGHTERS FRIDAY on KJRW!


All Request Fall begins Tuesday, September 4th on KJRW!  Comment here with your song requests or on our Facebook page.

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the end of August)

Monday is the last Monday of the month, which means it's trivia time!  KJRW provides one last music category (Family Values) at the Shadowland Pub Quiz.  Come out and play the final KJRW crafted audio round Monday night at 8, where Oregon meets California in West Seattle.

Some of you took the challenge to listen to KJRW for ONE hour.  Consequently, listening time increased 15% in the past couple of weeks.  Hooray!

A little background on measuring listening:  Before the time of internet radio, TSL (Time Spent Listening) was measured by AQH (Average Quarter Hour).  If you listened to a station from 9:01 to 9:14 (13 minutes), the station would receive a rating based on 1 quarter hour.  If you listened to that station from 9:09 to 9:18 (9 minutes), the station would receive a rating based on 2 quarter hours.  You listened for a longer amount of time in the first case, but the station got a higher rating in the second case. This is why you never used to hear commercials at :15, :30, and :45 past the hour.  

With Internet radio, specifically Radionomy (our web host) listening time is measured by the hour.  It doesn't matter when you hit that play button, you have to stick around for at least an hour in order for your time to count.  If you listen for 55 minutes, it's as if you didn't listen at all.  It's not measured.

We appreciate whatever amount of time you spend with KJRW, but it only counts to Radionomy if you spend at least an hour at a time.

You have about a week left to listen to your new wave faves during New Wave Summer on KJRW.

All Request Fall begins September 5th!

WHAT's GOING ON (at the end of 2016)

A year ago, we found out KJRW was losing its home on Live365.  We made the move to Radionomy in February.  It gave us more space for more songs and slightly better sound quality.  It allowed more people to listen to the station at the same time for free.  And you listened longer than ever!  However, it made it more difficult for you to give us feedback and rate the songs, so there is no Top 116 of 2016 song list to post or play.  

We are under the semi-constant threat of deletion from Radionomy.  There are listening hurdles we must jump every so often in order to stay online. We are at 57% of our current goal.  

We hope to reach our listening goals to keep providing the most awesome alternative rock in the air from Punk to Grunge and beyond in 2017.  Under the Covers continues all winter long.  And we're working on something special for spring.

As long as you keep listening, KJRW will stay online.

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 April)

KJRW has been on Radionomy for 2 months, and today we got the thumbs up from them to keep going for another 6.  

During the first week of April, about 200 people checked out the station for almost 200 hours.  That's okay, but we can do better.  We'd like to see that number more than double in the next week.  Please spread the word that KJRW can now be heard on Radionomy.

We hope you enjoyed hearing the wacky novelty songs on April Fool's Day.  Here is something you may enjoy even more:  a chance to win one thousand dollars!  Listen to KJRW to find out how to qualify for the Grand Giveaway.

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...

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THANK YOU

We just wanted to take a minute to thank you for listening to KJRW.  You have many ways to listen to music these days.  But, with "regular" radio you have to sit through five or six minutes of commercials just to hear a song that some old guy in a suit thinks you tuned in for.  So, you turn to your Ipod or Spotify in order to pick the songs you want to listen to, without all the chatter.  But, that can get predictable and boring.  Opening up Pandora may give you some surprises, especially since it rarely plays the actual artist you have typed that you want to hear.  Even on Live365 there are thousands of stations to choose from, but many of them sound like someone just loaded some songs and hit "shuffle".  No corporate "bigwig" has decided which songs are on KJRW.  Bands that don't even have record deals yet send us demos and we play them.   No computer program spits out a playlist.  We find music that we enjoy and place those songs in a certain order that we hope you find pleasing.  Our aim is to entertain you with songs that you haven't heard in awhile and some you never heard before.  Again, thanks for listening to KJRW.

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

Meet the new list, same as the old list.  (to paraphrase a Who classic)  Not much has changed in the top 10 for the last week of May:

1. Everyday I Love You Less and Less - Kaiser Chiefs
2. We Want the Airwaves - Ramones
3. Kiss Them for Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
4. Vive Le Rock - Adam Ant
5. Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
6. Train In Vain - Clash
7. Over - Sugarcult
8. The Hardest Button to Button - White Stripes
9. Pretty Noose - Soundgarden
10. Girl U Want - Devo

Songs from Girl in a Coma, Band of Skulls and more added soon.  Big plans in the works for summer, which officially begins in a few weeks.

LAST OF THE INDEPENDENTS

While visiting the Boston area last week, I heard this sad news:
Rock station WFNX being sold to Clear Channel

I remember many nights I sat in the car in the driveway, listening to 'FNX.  What was on the air was so interesting and different that I didn't want to remove the key and go inside the house.  Creativity has been squashed again in the name of profit.  When will the carnage end?