PUNK ROCK WEEKEND

This weekend is a Punk Rock Weekend.

Nothing but Punk Rock all weekend long.

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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?

The Radionomy website seems to be experiencing technical difficulties.
Please standby...

We will recap our first month on Radionomy soon.

WHAT'S GOING ON (In the middle of September)

ALL Request Fall is underway at KJRW.  You may email your song requests to kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com.  The most requested songs playing on KJRW now are:

1. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
2. Look Back and Laugh - Minor Threat
3. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
4. I Was Wrong - Social Distortion
5. Change the World - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
6. Human Fly - Cramps
7. Know Your Rights - Clash
8. Tighten Up - Black Keys
9. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
10. Crimson Wave - Tacocat

Our rank among the thousands of stations on Live365 is climbing higher and higher.  We've been made a favorite station several more times.  KJRW has picked up a few more followers on twitter and facebook.

We designed a Special Edition T-shirt with tfund.  It is not available in the KJRW Corner Store.  It is only available here.  10 shirts need to be pre-ordered in the next 10 days, or the shirt will not get printed!  It's only $20 and part of that will go to keep our little radio-station-that-could chugging away. Please order a shirt today!

Last Monday is a little over a week away.  KJRW hosts the music round at the Shadowland Pub Quiz on the 28th at 8 p.m. in West Seattle.  This month's category is Alternative Rock Resumes.  Musicians who have been members of more than one successful band are highlighted.  Come Out and Play!

WHAT'S GOING ON (At the End of July)

Our rank on Live365.com has gone up a little.  KJRW got a few more clicks on the heart to make us a favorite station.  A larger percentage of people who visit the station page are pressing the play button and giving us a listen. More streams were launched in July than in June.  These are the songs folks are enjoying the most:

1. State of Love and Trust - Pearl Jam
2. Pablo Picasso - The Modern Lovers
3. Somebody Else's Baby - Murder City Devils
4. Dresden Dolls - The Fall
5. Kool Thing - Sonic Youth
6. One Way Or Another - Blondie
7. Fall Out - The Police
8. New Sensation - INXS
9. Raw Power - The Stooges
10. California Sun - The Ramones

Listening is tops in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Mexico, Colombia, Italy, France, Finland, the United Kingdom and Germany.

New Wave Summer is in full swell.  INXS and the the Fall even made it into the top ten tracks this week.  More songs on the way from the Smiths, Split Enz, Missing Persons and more.

WHAT'S GOING ON with KJRW (for the 3rd week of June)

Live365.com has given the KJRW station page a new look.
Check it out and tell us what you think.

A handful of people made KJRW a favorite station last week.  You can do that by clicking the heart on the station page.  The number of streams launched has decreased this past week.  It may be because the play button has been moved to the upper left corner of the station page.


The Top Ten tracks on KJRW this past week were:

1. Baby Boy - Girl in a Coma
2. Andres - L7
3. Over Seasons - Authority Zero
4. No Integrity - Betty Blowtorch
5. Lust For Life - Iggy Pop
6. Cold Wind - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
7. Dog Eat Dog - Adam and the Ants
8. Get With Me - PINS
9. Apathetic - Lunachicks
10. Chelsea Dagger - Fratellis

NEW WAVE SUMMER crashes in THIS WEEK!  The genre of music that bridges the gap between Punk and Grunge.  Song suggestions?

WHAT'S GOING ON (INSIDE MY HEAD)

Look for a new feature in this space called "What's Going On"...

TOP TEN

Fugazi moves into the top spot this week on KJRW:

1. Bad Mouth - Fugazi
2. Get With Me - PINS
3. Destination Anywhere - Sugarcult
4. Drama - L7
5. Are You Bad - Glitter Mini 9
6. The Busdrivers - Josh's Shirt
7. Hellhole - Detroit Diesel Power
8. Feel the Pain - Dinosaur Jr.
9. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
10. You Know You're Right - Nirvana

Listen to KJRW to hear new music from the Orwells, as well as old favorites from Devo, Blondie and more...

TOP TEN

Big changes in the Top Ten tracks on KJRW this week:

1. Love Buzz - Nirvana
2. Lexicon Devil - Germs
3. Radio Revolution - Vacancies
4. Out of Step - Minor Threat
5. Destination Anywhere - Sugarcult
6. The Guns of Brixton - Clash
7. What Love Is - Dead Boys
8. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
9. The Busdrivers - Josh's Shirt
10. Beat Your Heart Out - Distillers

Next week on KJRW we will feature the new album from The Dollyrots, Barefoot + Pregnant!

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The KJRW Tagline Contest closes at the end of the month!  

Just a few days left to fill in the blank:  "KJRW is ______________" for your chance at prizes.

I DON'T HATE MYSELF FOR LOVING YOU

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts played a sold-out show at Snoqualmie Casino in Washington Sunday night.  It was their second show in the ballroom in a little less than a year.  Breaking with tradition, the set began not with Bad Reputation, but TMI from the new album, Unvarnished.  Almost half of the songs during the concert came from the new album (Soulmates To Strangers, Make It Back, Fragile, Hard To Grow Up, Any Weather and Reality Mentality).  The Runaways classic, Cherry Bomb remained in its usual second slot.

It was at about this time that I reached up to get a high five from bassist Acey Slade.  He instead shook my hand and left his guitar pick in my palm.  They then launched into Gary Glitter's Do You Wanna Touch Me and Bad Reputation.  The Blackhearts really hit their stride midway through the set with the first song Joan Jett ever wrote, You Drive Me Wild.  This was the highlight of the show for me because she came over and played part of it right above me.

The show ended with the trifecta of tunes that most people go to hear:  I Love Rock 'N' Roll, Crimson and Clover and I Hate Myself For Loving You.  The encore included The Sweet's AC/DC and Sly and the Family Stone's Everyday People.

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...

TOP TEN

There's a new number one in the Top Ten on KJRW this week:

1.  The Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
2.  Rise Above - Black Flag
3.  Money - Flying Lizards
4.  Incinerate - Sonic Youth
5.  Grind - Alice In Chains
6.  Electric Band - Wild Flag
7.  Strange Love - Cramps
8.  I Want It All - Battered Wives
9.  Kiss Them For Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
10.  New Radio - Bikini Kill

Looking ahead to mid-March and trying to dig up some Celtic Punk...

DIVE UNDER THE COVERS

We have been asked to post a list of all the cover songs played during Dive Under the Covers month on KJRW.  We hadn't really been keeping track, but we can't resist a list, so here is what we remember playing:

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Devo
99 Red Balloons - 7 Seconds
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love - Minutemen
Amoeba - Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker
Ball of Confusion - Love and Rockets
Bang A Gong - Ministry
Be My Baby - Dollyrots
Because I'm Awesome - Bowling For Soup
Blue Monday - Orgy
Break On Through - Weirdos
Cherry Bomb - Bratmobile
Class War - Bobby Alt,  Branden Steineckert, Ben Rojas, and Nick S.
Come On, Let's Go - Girl In A Coma
Crimson & Clover - Evil Stig
Darling Nikki - Foo Fighters
Dear Prudence - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Dirty Deeds - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Do It Clean - Hole
Easy - Faith No More
Everybody Knows - Concrete Blonde
Gimme Some Truth - Generation X
Have A Cigar - Foo Fighters
Head On - Pixies
Hello, I Love You - Adam Ant
Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers
House of the Rising Sun - Adolescents
How Soon Is Now? - Meatmen
I Can't Control Myself - Strawberry Zots
I Fought the Law - Clash
I Had Too Much To Dream - Stiv Bators
I Love Rock 'N' Roll - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
I Wanna Be Sedated - Offspring
I Will Survive - Cake
I'm Not Your Stepping Stone - Minor Threat
Indian Giver - Ramones
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants
It's My Life - No Doubt
It's Too Late - 7 Year Bitch
Just Got Paid - Rapeman
Kick Out the Jams - Presidents of the United States of America
Kids In America - Donnas
Lake of Fire - Nirvana
Lord of the Thighs - Breeders
Love Song - 311
Maggies Farm - Rage Against the Machine
Manic Depression - Beefeater
Money - Flying Lizards
Mony Mony - Billy Idol
More, More, More - Babes In Toyland
Mrs. Robinson - Lemonheads
My Generation - Green Day
My Sharona - Veruca Salt
Nights In White Satin - Dickies
No Fun - Sex Pistols
Nothing Compares 2 U - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
On A Plain - Telekinesis
Over the Rainbow - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Paranoid - Dickies
People Are Strange - Echo and the Bunnymen
Personal Jesus - Marilyn Manson
Pictures of Matchstick Men - Camper Van Beethoven
The Promise - Eyeliners
The Pusher - Blind Melon
Radar Love - Ministry
Ring of Fire - Social Distortion
Roadrunner - Colored Girls
Rock 'N' Roll - Runaways
Rock 'N' Roll High School - Shonen Knife
Rock On - Blondie
Satyagraha - Vacancies
Seek and Destroy - Agent Orange
Set Me Free - Fastbacks
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Should I Stay Or Should I Go? - Anti-Flag
Stairway To Heaven - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Stay Away - Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band
Surfin' Bird - Ramones
Swallow My Pride - Fastbacks
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Marilyn Manson
Take Me To The River - Talking Heads
These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - 7 Seconds
Tomorrow Never Knows - My Son the Bum
Too Drunk To Fuck - Blanks 77
Travelin' Band - Heart Attacks
Viva Las Vegas - Dead Kennedys
Voices Carry - Gang Green
Wasted - Circle Jerks
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? - Nirvana
You Know My Name - Poets of the Fall

A KJRW prize pack to the first person who responds with a corresponding list of artists who did those songs first!

TOP TEN

It's almost all covers in the Top Ten tracks this week on KJRW:

1. I Fought the Law - Clash
2. Ball of Confusion - Love and Rockets
3. Verse Chorus Verse - Nirvana
4. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
5. No Fun - Sex Pistols
6. Ring of Fire - Social Distortion
7. I Will Survive - Cake
8. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Devo
9. I Wanna Be Sedated - Offspring
10. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes

There is only one week left of Dive Under the Covers month.  We will soon post a list of all the cover tunes we played.

TOP TEN

The first list of 2014 finds Killing Joke at the top of the heap on KJRW.

1. The Wait - Killing Joke
2. Here's To Your Fuck - Gits
3. The KKK Took My Baby Away - Ramones
4. Seriously - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
5. Dog Style - Viletones
6. So Alive - Love and Rockets
7. These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - 7 Seconds
8. Between the Eyes - Love Battery
9. Suicide - Battered Wives
10. Miss Understood - 7 Year Bitch

One cover made the list this week.  We shall see which others make the cut as KJRW Dives Under the Covers all month long.

TOP 113 LIST

KJRW celebrated the beginning of its fourth year online by counting down your favorite songs played over the past year.  This is the third time we have done this, and the list has never been the same.  The Clash was the band with the most tunes this year.  There were a half dozen cover versions of songs, including the number one track.  Here is the full list of the TOP 113 of 2013:

113.   TV Party - Black Flag
112.   Kiss Kiss - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
111.   Guilt Within Your Head - Gits
110.   Wave of Mutilation - Pixies
109.   One Thing - INXS
108.   Boredom - Buzzcocks
107.   Don’t Want To Know If You're Lonely - Husker Du
106.   Straight Ahead - Pennywise
105.   Cars - Gary Numan
104.   Kundalini Express - Love and Rockets
103.   Look Back and Laugh - Minor Threat
102.   I Fought the Law - Clash
101.   Maxwell Murder - Rancid
100.   Personality Crisis - New York Dolls
99.    One More Thing - L7
98.    Mr. Chivalry - Girl in a Coma
97.    (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Devo
96.    Hybrid Moments - Misfits
95.    Head Over Heels - Go-Go's
94.    Turning Japanese - Vapors
93.    Miss World - Hole
92.    Love Kills - Circle Jerks
91.    Breed - Nirvana
90.    Blood One - Bikini Kill
89.    What Love Is - Dead Boys
88.    Judy Is a Punk - Ramones
87.    Bad Reputation - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
86.    Need You Around - Smoking Popes
85.    Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
84.    Drug Train - Social Distortion
83.    My Name Is Mud - Primus
82.    Wrong Way - Sublime
81.    No Fun - Stooges
80.    Can Your Pussy Do the Dog? - Cramps
79.    Blue Orchid - White Stripes
78.    Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
77.    X Offender - Blondie
76.    Oh Come On - Julie Ruin
75.    Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
74.    Wonderful - Circle Jerks
73.    London Calling - Clash
72.    Mind Your Manners - Pearl Jam
71.    Pattern Skies - Greenhornes
70.    So Alive - Love and Rockets
69.    In My Eyes - Minor Threat
68.    Baby Baby - Vibrators
67.    Miss Impossible - Poets of the Fall
66.    Emotional Blackmail - UK Subs
65.    Different - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
64.    Possum Kingdom - Toadies
63.    Suddenly Last Summer - Motels
62.    Shout - Tears for Fears
61.    Jackie Chan - Dollyrots
60.    I Need - L7
59.    Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana
58.    Potential Suicide - Wipers
57.    Waiting Room - Fugazi
56.    Bob - NOFX
55.    Friction - Television
54.    Infected - Bad Religion
53.    School Days - Runaways
52.    Attitude - Misfits
51.    When She Begins - Social Distortion
50.    Train In Vain - Clash
49.    Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry
48.    Kid - Pretenders
47.    Whip It - Devo
46.    What You Say - Sugarcult
45.    Rock 'N' Roll High School - Ramones
44.    Destroy - Eyeliners
43.    Pull A U - Kills
42.    Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
41.    Sabotage - Beastie Boys
40.    Closer - Nine Inch Nails
39.    Color Me Impressed - Replacements
38.    Place Position - Fugazi
37.    I Don't Care About You - Fear
36.    One of My Lies - Green Day
35.    Neat Neat Neat - Damned
34.    Soup Is Good Food - Dead Kennedys
33.    Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney
32.    The Happy Song - Poets of the Fall
31.    (I'm Gonna) Run Away - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
30.    Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
29.    Inside Out - Eve 6
28.    The Guns of Brixton - Clash
27.    Song 2 - Blur
26.    I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs
25.    Skinny Little Bitch - Hole
24.    B Is For Brutus - Hives
23.    Take the Skinheads Bowling - Camper Van Beethoven
22.    These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - 7 Seconds
21.    Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr.
20.    Peaches - Stranglers
19.    Sugar Kane - Sonic Youth
18.    The Passenger - Iggy Pop
17.    Minor Threat - Minor Threat
16.    Bleed Together - Soundgarden
15.    I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones
14.    Orange Alert - Briefs
13.    Satyagraha - Vacancies
12.    Rehab - Ministry
11.    Self Esteem - Offspring
10.    Alone, Together - Strokes
9.     I Want To Hear What You Have Got To Say - Subways
8.     Kiss Them For Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
7.     Steady, As She Goes - Raconteurs
6.     The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
5.     Know Your Rights - Clash
4.     Jane Says - Jane's Addiction
3.     Dancing With Myself - Generation X
2.     Psychosis - Poets of the Fall
1.     Wild Thing - X

HELP!

Now playing on YouTube - our little plea for help.

There are just over 2 weeks left in our subscription with Live365.com.

Thanks to donations received earlier this year, we are close to our goal.

You can keep KJRW online by clicking here.

TOP TEN

We were not sure if the masses would be offended, but you made The Masses Are Asses by L7 number one on KJRW this week.  Here's the list:

1. The Masses Are Asses - L7
2. Minor Threat - Minor Threat
3. Suicide - Battered Wives
4. Lexicon Devil - Germs
5. Look Back and Laugh - Minor Threat
6. Bad Reputation - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
7. Need You Around - Smoking Popes
8. So Alive - Love and Rockets
9. Oh Come On - Julie Ruin
10. Bad Mouth - Fugazi

Songs new to KJRW this week from My Son the Bum, Anti-Flag, The Voids and more!

The KJRW Fund Drive continues at gofundme.com.  Our subscription with Live365 ends this month.  Your donation will help keep us online.  Thank you!

TOP TEN

The Runaways stay at the top another week, and Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi) rules the list with three songs:

1. School Days - Runaways
2. Suicide - Battered Wives
3. Minor Threat - Minor Threat
4. Bad Mouth - Fugazi
5. Look Back and Laugh - Minor Threat
6. So Alive - Love and Rockets
7. Oh Come On - Julie Ruin
8. Need You Around - Smoking Popes
9. I Need - L7
10. Mind Your Manners - Pearl Jam

Songs new to KJRW this week from the Stooges, Weezer, Gossip and more...