GUESS WHO'S BACK

Get Under the Covers with us again!  KJRW returns to Radionomy for a limited time only!

How limited?  One month? Three months?  Nine months?  Longer?
That depends completely upon YOU.  If you listen long time, we'll stick around.

DJ Spinster is back, playing songs from The Ramones, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Green Day, Black Flag, Rancid, Dead Kennedys, Misfits, Bad Religion, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, and many more.

KJRW has a new promotions director, Bass Master Nate.  He's in charge of getting the word out about the station.  Please give him a warm welcome, and help him by telling your friends about KJRW.

Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and now Instagram!

Comment with a song request.

Tune in THIS THURSDAY, February 1st for the return of the prodigal radio station. 

http://www.radionomy.com/en/radio/kjrwseattle/

WHAT'S GOING ON (At the beginning of May)

 KJRW will feature a different artist every day this month!

A reason to listen every day in May.

Time spent listening in April fell to 28%.  Our hope was to achieve at least 57% to be on pace to reach 100% in 5 months.  People did spend over 11 hundred hours with KJRW in the U.S., Germany, Canada, France, Spain, Poland, Austria, and Italy.

It's still cold, cloudy, and rainy in Seattle, but New Wave Summer is right around the corner...

Speaking of corners, be sure to visit the KJRW Corner Store for stuff with the  Little Lex Logo!

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.

THE TOP 115 OF 2015

It's the end of the year, so there has to be a countdown, right?  Newcomer Big Data tops the list of songs you gave the thumbs up.  The Clash, Ramones and Social Distortion are in a three way tie for most songs in the countdown.  Here is the Top 115 of 2015:

1. Dangerous – Big Data
2. Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
3. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4. Change the World – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
5. Woman – Wolfmother
6. Know Your Rights – Clash
7. Violet – Hole
8. Human Fly – Cramps
9. Strangelove – Depeche Mode
10.  Song 2 – Blur
11.  I Was Wrong – Social Distortion
12. Porch – Pearl Jam
13. Nearly Lost You – Screaming Trees
14.  Incinerate – Sonic Youth
15.  Suspect Device – Stiff Little Fingers
16.  Maxwell Murder – Rancid
17.  Communist Eyes – Germs
18.  Cannonball – Breeders
19.  Drug Train – Social Distortion
20.  Merchandise – Fugazi
21.  Got the Time – Anthrax
22.  Seether – Veruca Salt
23.  Fall Behind Me – Donnas
24.  I Wanna Be Where the Boys Are – Runaways
25.  Teen Age Riot – Sonic Youth
26.  Celebrity Skin – Hole
27.  Breathe – Prodigy
28.  Bittersweet Symphony – Verve
29.  Ring of Fire – Social Distortion
30.  Rockaway Beach – Ramones
31.  God Save the Queen – Sex Pistols
32.  All Apologies – Nirvana
33.  Look Back and Laugh – Minor Threat
34.  Bad Reputation – Joan Jett
35.  American Idiot – Green Day
36.  The Passenger – Iggy Pop
37.  Blood Sugar Sex Magic – Red Hot Chili Peppers
38.  Self Esteem – Offspring
39.  Clampdown – Clash
40.  Suburban Home – Descendents
41.  Los Angeles – X
42.  Tighten Up – Black Keys
43.  Love In Plaster – Hives
44.  Corona – Minutemen
45.  We Are the One – Avengers
46.  1 2 X U – Wire
47.  Halloween II – Misfits
48.  Waiting Room – Fugazi
49.  Questioning My Sanity – L7
50.  My Hero – Foo Fighters
51.  Empty Head – Screaming Females
52.  Henrietta – Fratellis
53.  Let’s Dance – David Bowie
54.  Quitter – Rhones
55.  It Haunts You Now – Go Betty Go
56.  If You Could Only See – Tonic
57.  Paul Revere – Beastie Boys
58.  Indecent – Spunk Lads
59.  Radio – New Hell Republic
60.  Alternative Ulster – Stiff Little Fingers
61.  Pronoia – Strange Wilds
62.  Underground – Sneaker Pimps
63.  House of the Rising Sun – Adolescents
64.  Straight To Hell – Clash
65.  Radar Love – Ministry
66.  Bodies – Sex Pistols
67.  Repeater – Fugazi
68.  Sappy – Nirvana
69.  Kids In America – Kim Wilde
70.  I Hate Myself For Loving You – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
71.  Natural One – Folk Imposion
72.  Howlin’ For You – Black Keys
73.  My Generation – Green Day
74.  I Just Wanna Have Something To Do – Ramones
75.  New Wind – 7 Seconds
76.  The Hardest Button To Button – White Stripes
77.  What Love Is – Dead Boys
78.  Kiss Them For Me – Siouxsie and the Banshees
79.  Friction – Television
80.  Wild Thing – X
81.  Lexicon Devil - Germs
82.  Wendy – Descendents
83.  Supermassive Black Hole – Muse
84.  Personality Crisis – New York Dolls
85.  Ven Cerca – Girl In A Coma
86.  Nazi Punks Fuck Off – Dead Kennedys
87.  Spoonman – Soundgarden
88.  Rise – Public Image Ltd.
89.  Closer – Nine Inch Nails
90.  One Way Or Another – Blondie
91.  Straight Ahead – Pennywise
92.  Stranger Than Fiction – Bad Religion
93.  Rocket – Smashing Pumpkins
94.  Prisoner of Society – Living End
95.  What Do I Get? – Buzzcocks
96.  We Care A Lot – Faith No More
97.  Crimson Wave – Tacocat
98.  Queer – Garbage
99.  Search and Destroy – Iggy and the Stooges
100. The KKK Took My Baby Away - Ramones
101. Two of a Kind – Beat Dolls
102. Precious – Pretenders
103. Pigs In Zen – Jane’s Addiction
104. Gone Daddy Gone – Violent Femmes
105. Sweet Jane – Velvet Underground
106. Give It Away – Red Hot Chili Peppers
107. Just Like Heaven – The Cure
108. Jocko Homo – Devo
109. Wild in the Street – Circle Jerks
110. Kick Me to the Curb – Dollyrots
111. When You Find Out – Nerves
112. Kick Out the Jams – Bad Brains with Henry Rollins
113. Plowed – Sponge
114. Scoff – Nirvana
115. Ghost Town – Specials

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

Halfway through August, the station page at Live365.com has been visited 800 times. Your favorite songs playing on KJRW currently are:

1. Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. Maxwell Murder - Rancid
3. Know Your Rights - Clash
4. Pronoia - Strange Wilds
5. Got the Time - Anthrax
6. Radio - New Hell Republic
7. Strangelove - Depeche Mode
8. Mountain Man - Crash Kings
9. New Wind - 7 Seconds
10. Let's Dance - David Bowie

There are only a few weeks left of New Wave Summer.  Get your T-shirt before it leaves the store!

And we are 2 weeks away from LAST MONDAY.  KJRW hosts the music round of the Shadowland Pub Quiz the last Monday of the month.  Shadowland is located at the corner of California and Oregon in West Seattle.  If you are in the area, come out and play!

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

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction is this weekend.  KJRW is celebrating members all month long.  Listen for Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground.  The Velvets joined a few years back, and this year it's Lou's turn as a solo artist.  You will also hear David Bowie, The Ramones, Talking Heads, The Police, The Clash, Elvis Costello, The Pretenders, U2, Sex Pistols, Blondie, Patti Smith, R.E.M., The Stooges, Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana. On top of that are a couple more artists entering the hall this weekend:  Green Day and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.

April Fool's Day didn't drive folks away, even though it consisted mostly of 80's and 90's pop music. In fact, that day saw the most visits to the station page so far this month.

We recently added a boatload of tunes to the mix, and will continue to add more each week.  Your favorite songs playing on KJRW currently are:

1. Seether - Veruca Salt
2. Fall Behind Me - The Donnas
3. Dangerous - Big Data
4. Teen Age Riot - Sonic Youth
5. I Hate Myself for Loving You - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
6. Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
7. Woman - Wolfmother
8. Violet - Hole
9. Ring of Fire - Social Distortion
10. The KKK Took My Baby Away - The Ramones

KJRW is listener-supported INDIE Radio.  You can throw a few bucks our way on the Go Fund Me page.

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

January has been a good month for KJRW so far. Our rank on Live365.com is climbing, and our rank among the rock stations on the site are the highest they have ever been. Listeners have made us a favorite station over 630 times as of this week.

The Top Ten Tracks on KJRW are:

1. Natural One - Folk Implosion
2. If You Could Only See - Tonic
3. Love In Plaster - Hives
4. Skin and Bones - Foo Fighters
5. Kick Out the Jams - Bad Brains with Henry Rollins
6. Backwater - Meat Puppets
7. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
8. Bittersweet Symphony - Verve
9. Corona - Minutemen
10. Empty Promise - Girl In A Coma

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the beginning of the new year)

Hello and welcome to 2015!  KJRW's 5th year online is underway.  Most of 2014 was good for the station.  The play button was clicked about a thousand times a month.  We were riding especially high in April, when KJRW held its highest rank ever among all the stations on Live365.com.  We got Under the Covers, listened to love songs, had a New Wave Summer, went back to College in the fall and had a Punk Rock Christmas.  We'll do it all again in 2015, from Punk to Grunge and beyond!

People spent the most time listening to KJRW in the U.S., Switzerland, Spain, Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, Italy, Russia, Peru and the Czech Republic in the month of December.  Inside the U.S., listeners were found in our home base of Seattle, WA; Chicago, IL; Louisville,KY; Philadelphia, PA; New York, NY; Kansas City, MO; Los Angeles, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Cincinnati, OH and Dallas, TX.

The current top ten tracks on KJRW are:

1. Rise - Public Image Ltd.
2. Spoonman - Soundgarden
3. Bonzo Goes To Bitburg - Ramones
4. Woman - Wolfmother
5. Bittersweet Symphony - Verve
6. Corona - Minutemen
7. Welcome To Paradise - Green Day
8. Cannonball - Breeders
9. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. Closer - Nine Inch Nails

Get Under the Covers with KJRW now.  Your favorite cover songs play all winter long.

WHAT'S GOING ON (in mid-September)

KJRW's rock rank is holding steady on Live365.com. The station has been made a favorite 575 times, and over 54 thousand streams have been launched.  It seems as though there have been some connection problems, with the signal dropping out a bit over the past week.  Thanks for not giving up, and pressing play again, again, and again!  Your current favorite songs are:

1. Rock & Roll Queen - The Subways
2. You Sound Like You're Sick - The Ramones
3. Girlsized - Glitter Mini 9
4. Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers
5. All This and More - Dead Boys
6. In Bloom - Nirvana
7. Perfect Storm - The Strypes
8. Radio Free Europe - R.E.M.
9. Everybody's Out - Dum Dum Girls
10. Phenomena - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

More College Rock just added from Dinosaur Jr., Faith No More, Joy Division and more!

KJRW has also picked up more Twitter followers this week.  If you would like more updates about the station, you can follow us  @KJRWwestseattle.

Find out what it's like to listen to KJRW without commercial interruptions.  Click this link:  http://www.live365.com/rewards/pm?tag=member_10222739915

KJRW continues to host trivia Sunday nights at 7:30 at West Seattle Brewing Company.  Come out and play!

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

TOP TEN

Iggy Pop's time at the top has ended.  "The Passenger" not only got knocked out of the number one slot, but completely out of the KJRW Top Ten.  In fact, only one song stayed on the list from last week, and it is the new number one:

1. Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr.
2. Destination Unknown - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
3. Sugar Kane - Sonic Youth
4. Kundalini Express - Love and Rockets
5. Ball and Chain - Social Distortion
6. Mr. Chivalry - Girl in a Coma
7. Hollywood (Africa) - Red Hot Chili Peppers
8. Dead Souls - Joy Division
9. Jane Says - Jane's Addiction
10. Dancing With Myself - Generation X

To see your favorite songs in the Top Ten list, click the "thumbs up" icon while they are playing on KJRW.

TOP TEN

The Pixies hold onto the number one spot for the second week of October -- or dare I say, Roctober.  Can they do it again next week?  It is up to you.  Click on the 'thumbs up' icon when you hear a song you like on KJRW.  Here is the current list of favorites:

1. Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
2. Rock The Casbah - Clash
3. Dance With Me - Dollyrots
4. Rock & Roll Queen - Subways
5. Kiss Them For Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
6. Call Me - Blondie
7. Love In Plaster - Hives
8. Someday - Strokes
9. Bleed Together - Soundgarden
10. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - Ramones

New Red Hot Chili Peppers on soon!

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

The brand new Band of Skulls song shoots straight to number one.  Conversely, the new Red Hot Chili Peppers song is a cellar dweller.  Here is the top ten list for the last week of February:

1. Bruises - Band of Skulls
2. This Job Sucks - Gang Green
3. Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2
4. Trust - Generationals
5. I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage
6. Superstition - Kills
7. Kundalini Express - Love and Rockets
8. Typical Girls - Slits
9. Pretty Noose - Soundgarden
10. Girl Is On My Mind - Black Keys

I was just looking at tickets for the Black Keys/Arctic Monkeys show in Seattle in May.  I would really like to go, but can't see parting with 50 bucks for a nosebleed seat.

Songs from Avengers, Fugazi, Nirvana and more just added to the list on KJRW.

By the way, have you taken step two of the challenge at http://www.facebook.com/KJRW.WestSeattle?

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

The song at the top this week is "This Job Sucks".  I guess I'm not the only one unhappy with my day job.  Ah, if I could only make a living from KJRW.  Here is the list:

1. This Job Sucks - Gang Green
2. He Gets Me High - Dum Dum Girls
3. Superstition - Kills
4. Suffragette City - David Bowie
5. Trust - Generationals
6. I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage
7. Have A Cigar - Foo Fighters
8. Paralyzed - Rock Kills Kid
9. Typical Girls - Slits
10. Mad Dash - 7 Year Bitch

New Band of Skulls and Red Hot Chili Peppers on KJRW soon!