Cool and/or Funky Radio Stations

[ItsOver]

Since Art's left the airwaves for now,  I've been meandering around the wide, wide world of streaming radio stations.  Just by chance, I stumbled upon, of all places, a public station in northern Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.  A really cool station that broadcasts a variety of alternative music.   When I want to chill, I just strap on my noise-cancelling headphones and get in the zone.   Best thing I've found recently with my pants on.   Check it out at http://wnku.org/

What is your current radio station nirvana?

[b_dubb]

Since Art's left the airwaves for now,  I've been meandering around the wide, wide world of streaming radio stations.  Just by chance, I stumbled upon, of all places, a public station in northern Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.  A really cool station that broadcasts a variety of alternative music.   When I want to chill, I just strap on my noise-cancelling headphones and get in the zone.   Best thing I've found recently with my pants on.   Check it out at http://wnku.org/

What is your current radio station nirvana?

I've been listening to this station too.  Their programming resembles KCRW but without the LA prozac-stoner ambient vibe.  Congratulations on being able to keep your pants on.  That should keep your parole officer happy.

[ItsOver]

I've been listening to this station too.  Their programming resembles KCRW but without the LA prozac-stoner ambient vibe.  Congratulations on being able to keep your pants on.  That should keep your parole officer happy.

I was wondering if you might tune in dubb.  You're in the Dayton area, right?  Yes, a good description of the programming.  Hahaha, yes they seem to get pretty mellow at night but at least I don't feel like I'm nodding-off in some whacked club in LA.

My parole officer seems to be happy at the moment but he does wonder why I keep mumbling things to myself about Dave Noorie.

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

this was my happy place in the olden days. http://bayarearadio.org/audio/kome/

later i moved on to listening to and was a part time unpaid goofball at KPFT in texas. (show sample download link is active)
http://texaspunktreasurechest.blogspot.com/2011/01/funhouse-show-monday-10281985.html

these days it's explicit language, sex and party drugs. gotta love that talk radio. 

[ItsOver]

Unwinding to Little Steven and The Underground Garage on WNKU.  Really enjoy the program variety.  Sure beats hearing Hannah Montana vomiting on the local FM ad infinitum.

[analog kid]

Dynamic Range Radio out of Canada is pretty great. Great sound quality, always something good to listen to.

[West of the Rockies]

KPIG out of the Santa Cruz, CA area is fun.  🐽 Lots of fun songs, comedy bits, quirky hosts.

[Avi]

Dynamic Range Radio out of Canada is pretty great. Great sound quality, always something good to listen to.

Thank you for this link. It's quite lovely.

[paladin1991]

I'll have to check these out.  I don't currently have anything good to listen to.  Back in the 90's I was listening to MARS FM, 93.1 in the L.A. area.  It segued into Groove radio and then...was gone.   

But it lives on on the internet.  Grooveradio.com

[Juan Cena]

Unwinding to Little Steven and The Underground Garage on WNKU.  Really enjoy the program variety.  Sure beats hearing Hannah Montana vomiting on the local FM ad infinitum.

The Underground Garage station on Sirius/XM is one of the reasons I haven't dumped the service yet.

[George Drooly]

http://wfmu.org/

WFMU's programming ranges from flat-out uncategorizable strangeness to rock and roll, experimental music, 78 RPM Records, jazz, psychedelia, hip-hop, electronica, hand-cranked wax cylinders, punk rock, gospel, exotica, R&B, radio improvisation, cooking instructions, classic radio airchecks, found sound, dopey call-in shows, interviews with obscure radio personalities and notable science-world luminaries, spoken word collages, Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtracks in languages other than English as well as Country and western music.

[Mind Flayer Monk]

http://wfmu.org/

That one is totally odd.
Looks normal on the surface until you click some links.

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57379

This one is pretty good http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57362
Soul Raga by Abbas Mehrpouya
Shaking Bones by Makac
winners so far. Very generous streaming on this site.

[missing transmission]

Back in the mid nineties there was a community radio station near me called Wear FM, great diverse line-up

Rock (with obligatory pseudo American accent for the English host  )
Blues (played some really old Delta blues tracks like Blind Boy Fuller plus first gen digital remasters of Blind lemon Jefferson)
Gay (lots of cheesey pop and a very camp host   : )
Dance (crazy underground hardcore/proto jungle stuff with no MC's that still sound out-there 20 year later)

Sadly it was badly managed and became another pop/commercial station... 'cause apparently there can NEVER be enough of those 

These days I can only stomach either
- BBC Radio 4 (as close as Mainstream media will get to balanced... unlike the BBC TV news sadly)
or
- BBC Radio 3 (super highbrow classical music with no commercials and actual seconds of dead air after each piece of music...)