OUT LIKE MARY'S LITTLE LAMB

KJRW just transitioned from being Under the Covers to having a Spring Fling.  Listening time held steady in the month of March.  If we stay at this level, Radionomy will allow us to add even more songs at the end of April.  And we are itching to increase our total of tunes.  KJRW is playing stuff you haven't heard  in awhile to woo you into having a Spring Fling with us.  You're gonna love it!  Tell us what to play by commenting here, emailing, or posting to Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

Thanks for listening to KJRW in the U.S., Germany, France, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Australia, Greece, U.K., Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Italy, Israel, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Hungary.
We are currently at 40% of our listening goal which must be achieved by this fall in order to stay online.  Click on KJRW April 1st to hear some foolish songs sprinkled into the playlist.  It's part of our Spring Fling because we like like you.

IN LIKE A GOLD LION

Hello and welcome to March!  

Taking a look at our first month back online, KJRW has a stronghold on North America and Europe.  We have even infiltrated the Middle East and South America.  Thanks for listening in the U.S., Germany, France, Austria, Canada, Guatemala, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Romania, and the U.K.

We beat our listening goal by 30% in February!  Keep listening because we are still 63% away from our ultimate listening goal, which we have to reach by the end of October.


Near the end of this month, we begin our Spring Fling.  We will stretch our musical muscles this spring by adding songs you haven't heard lately.  You can send your song requests to kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com, post them on our Facebook page, or Tweet at us.  While we're on the subject of social media, we just created an Instagram page.

Get Under the Covers with KJRW for a few more weeks...

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the Beginning of September)

New Wave Summer has given way to All Request Fall on KJRW.  There are several ways you can request a song:  email kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com, tweet it to @KJRWwestseattle, comment on this blog post, or send a message on our Facebook page.

Alas, All Request Fall and KJRW itself may come to an abrupt end on October 1st.  Our web host, Radionomy sent us an email stating that the station will be deleted if we do not meet their listening time requirements by the end of this month.  

We need a 60% increase in listening time or KJRW will end its 7-year run online.

Thanks for listening in the U.S., Germany, Canada, France, Switzerland, Spain, Ecuador, Netherlands, and the U.K.  If you keep listening, we just might stay online.

WHAT'S GOING ON (In the Middle of August)

Over 1500 people listened to KJRW the first half of August.  Most of that was during the first week.  Just 3 weeks left of the LAST New Wave Summer ever.  Catch it while you can.

All Request Fall begins after Labor Day Weekend.  There are several ways you can request a song  during the month of September:  email kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com, tweet it to @KJRWwestseattle, comment on this blog post, or send a message on our Facebook page.

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

We are on track to reach our goal of 2 thousand listening hours this month. Listening time is highest in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Mexico, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, France, Brazil and Germany. Inside the U.S., folks spend the most time with KJRW in Seattle, Detroit, Orlando, Denver, Charlotte, Chicago, Greensboro, San Francisco, Boston and Cleveland.

You don't have much longer to get in on the Grand Giveaway. Be sure to email kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com to enter right away. Please include your name and the city in which you live.

Pull up those parachute pants, straighten that skinny tie and wind your Swatch watch because it is almost time for New Wave Summer. We're getting ready by uploading plenty of Depeche Mode, Talking Heads, Missing Persons and more.

Stop by the KJRW Corner Store for shirts, stickers, key chains and hats.

Follow us on Twitter and Like us on Facebook for more frequent station updates.

Thanks for listening to West Seattle's Only Alternative - KJRW.

KJRW GOES GREEN

Top o' the mornin' to ya!  KJRW has gone green for St. Patty's Day.  Tune in today to hear a Green Day song every hour.  According to our extremely scientific Twitter poll, your favorite is When I Come Around, so we'll be sure to be giving that a spin.

Speaking of Twitter, we've picked up more followers.  And it's not creepy at all.  The more the merrier! 

Also, the more listening hours we have, the longer we stay online.  You can help by making sure you listen in every day and by sharing KJRW with your friends.

While the cabbage is boiling on the front burner, we have something cooking on the back burner for April Fool's Day that we think you're sure to enjoy...

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

The first couple of weeks on Radionomy has gone well for KJRW.  
Hope you enjoyed the love songs over the weekend.  We're back Under the Covers now and for the rest of the month.  
We've picked up more followers on Twitter and amassed new likes for the Facebook page.  
Our audience has expanded from the U.S., Canada, Russia, Brazil and Mexico to France, Japan, U.K., Germany and Finland.  
Over a thousand streams have been launched in the last couple weeks!  And we want more!  Please share KJRW with your friends.  
We can now also be heard on TuneIn.

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 beginning of September)

Monday night's Shadowland Pub Quiz was rockin' and raucous. Rico walked away with the fan-made KJRW T-shirt for correctly guessing the lyrics: "You said irony was the shackles of youth" belonged to a song by R.E.M. (What's the Frequency, Kenneth?). We thank Scott M.X. for letting us invade his quiz show the last Monday of every month.  Scott hosts the Shadowland Pub Quiz in West Seattle Monday nights at 8.

The station's rank climbed a few notches in August. We hit the milestone of 70 thousand visits to the KJRW station page at Live365.com.  There were almost 2 thousand visits in August alone. VIPs spent more time with us in August than in the previous 3 months.  KJRW was made a favorite station the most times since January.  The Facebook page got a bunch more likes.  And we gathered another batch of followers on Twitter.

People were listening the most in the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Belarus, Mexico, Italy, Japan and Belgium.

Inside the U.S., people spent the greatest amount of time with KJRW in:

• Seattle, WA
• Kansas City, MO
• Detroit, MI
• Philadelphia, PA
• Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
• Cincinnati, OH
• Atlanta, GA
• San Francisco, CA
• Albany, NY
• Boston, MA

The songs getting the thumbs up currently are:

1. Know Your Rights - Clash
2. Friction - Television
3. Don't Go - Yaz(oo)
4. Corduroy - Pearl Jam
5. Kiss Them for Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
6. Tighten Up - Black Keys
7. Maxwell Murder - Rancid
8. Ven Cerca - Girl in a Coma
9. Strangelove - Depeche Mode
10. Seven Nation Army - White Stripes

It's the last week of New Wave Summer.  Grab your T-shirt before it leaves the KJRW Corner Store.

ALL REQUEST FALL begins after Labor Day. You may make requests by clicking the talk bubble on the station page, or by emailing kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com.   You can even request your own band's music to be played if you include an mp3.

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

It's the middle of New Wave Summer on KJRW.  More streams were launched in July than in June.  We saw the milestone of being made a favorite station on Live365 over 700 times.  A bunch more people have followed us on twitter and liked the facebook page.  Click the links to do the same and get more frequent updates on KJRW.

Your current favorite songs are:

1. Communist Eyes - Germs
2. Let's Dance - David Bowie
3. Ring of Fire - Social Distortion
4. Radio - New Hell Republic
5. Drug Train - Social Distortion
6. Kids In America - Kim Wilde
7. Strangelove - Depeche Mode
8. God Save the Queen - Sex Pistols
9. Rockaway Beach - Ramones
10. American Idiot - Green Day

People listened the most in the U.S., Argentina, Canada, Switzerland, Japan, Belgium, New Zealand, Venezuela, Sweden and Serbia during July.  In the U.S., listening was highest in Washington, Texas, California, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York and Oregon.

Our first round of music trivia at the Shadowland Pub Quiz was well received.  We are looking forward to doing it again the last Monday of August.  If you are in the Seattle area, please come out and play.

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

The good news is that we have raised enough money to renew our contract with Live365 next month!  KJRW will stay online another year, and will have more room to store more songs and more people will be able to listen at a time without having to pay a subscription fee.  More!  More!  More!

Our rank among the rock stations on Live365 is holding steady.  We're just shy of being made a favorite 600 times. KJRW picked up a few more twitter followers this past week.  If you would like more frequent updates about the station, follow us on twitter or like the facebook page.

Your current favorite songs on KJRW are:

1. The Busdrivers - Josh's Shirt
2. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
3. Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals
4. You Sound Like You're Sick - Ramones
5. People Who Died - Jim Carroll Band
6. Kundalini Express - Love and Rockets
7. Goo Goo Muck - Cramps
8. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
9. Wave of Mutilation - Pixies
10. The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead - XTC

We continue our musical journey through 80's College Rock the rest of this month to 90's Alternative in December.  Thanks for coming along for the ride.

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

Your favorite songs the first week of October were:

1. Till I Get My Way - Black Keys
2. Goodnight Tonight - Dollyrots
3. Pirate Song - Go Betty Go
4. Oh My God - Kaiser Chiefs
5. Stray - Heatmiser
6. You Sound Like You're Sick - Ramones
7. Damaged Goods - Gang of Four
8. All This and More - Dead Boys
9. Perfect Storm - Strypes
10. The Wait - Pretenders

Over a couple hundred people visited the station page during the first week of the month.  Several people clicked on the heart to make KJRW a favorite.

KJRW got more twitter followers and more Facebook page likes.

Listen for College Rock and some spooky tunes all month 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 August)

We have added a new feature to the KJRW web page:  Polls!  The first question is about New Wave Summer songs.  Be sure to vote for your favorite!

There have been over 2 hundred streams launched and visits to the station page on Live365.com in the first week of the month.  Our rock rank is holding steady.

The current Top Ten tracks are:
1.   I Don't Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats
2.   Sliver - Nirvana
3.   Who Was In My Room Last Night? - Butthole Surfers
4.   Pablo Picasso - The Modern Lovers
5.   One Way Or Another - Blondie
6.   State of Love and Trust - Pearl Jam
7.   The Impression That I Get - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
8.   Take Me To Your, Leader - The Pudz
9.   Somebody Else's Baby - Murder City Devils
10.  Free Love - Cage the Elephant

More New Wave Summer songs from The Psychedelic Furs, The Church, Talk Talk and more just added!

Follow us on twitter @kjrwwestseattle for daily updates!