Progressive Community Radio: Does your community have a station?

[JanMichael]

Mine does: http://www.wmnf.org/index.shtml

Check out the programming: http://www.wmnf.org/programming/index.shtml

From Michael Franti to Dan Bern to the White Stripes to Democracy Now to Gospel to Weezer (real obscure shit) to even more!

Hell, here's today's "Sonic Detour" playlist (Their rushhour show)..

1 Josh Rouse Come Back (Light Therapy) 1972
2 Super Furry Animals 'Liberty Belle' Phantom Power
3 Echo and the Bunnymen Do It Clean 80 Crocodiles
4 Interview Women's Show Mary G.
5 priya thomas Digging For Gold x
6 Spam All Stars Mucha Nota !fuacata! live
7 Jack Johnson Wasting Time On And On
8 Toires Sanati VA Arabian Travels 2
9 pepe deluxe Salami Fever Beatitude
10 Frank Zappa G Spot Tornado Jazz From Hell
11 The Jayhawks Save It For A Rainy Day Rainy Day Music
12 Ben Lee 'Running with Scissors' Hey You. Yes You.
13 The Saturn 5 Neighborhood Mission Control
14 John McNicholas Alright How To Be Alone
15 The Dandy Warhols The Dandy Warhols Love Almost Everyone Welcome to the Monkey House
16 Afro Celt Sound System Whirl-Y-Reel Vol. 1 Sound Magic
17 Led Zepplin every song compilation box set promo
18 The Smiths HOW SOON IS NOW? singles
19 Wayne Hancock Highway 54 Swing Time
20 superchunk The Majestic Cup of Sand
21 Otis Taylor Babies Don't Lie Truth Is Not Fiction
22 Danny Barnes 'Life In The Country' Dirt On The Angel
23 Danny Barnes 'Life In The Country' Dirt On The Angel
24 XTC All Along the Watchtower White Music
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They're big on music but they also have several Progressive/Left news shows too...

What's in your neck of the woods?

[NightTrain]

1. My community is blessed with many non-commercial stations!

In fact, I've been involved with several of them. Currently, I'm in my eleventh year as a disc jockey, promo producer, and (more recently) Operations Board member at WHUS, the station at the University of Connecticut. That's http://whus.org.

[JanMichael]

3. Cool!

How about independant, non-university/NPR, stations? Like the Pacifica variety.

[NightTrain]

7. There's WNPR in Hartford...

...but frankly, that station leaves a lots to be desired. Its main musical focus is on what I've taken to calling "Classical Top 40."

As for Pacifica, the nearest affiliate to me is New York City's WBAI. However, WHUS at UConn and WWUH at the University of Hartford both carry Pacifica's excellent "Free Speech Radio News" five days a week.

[CanuckAmok]

4. Radio Malaspina:

101.7fm from Vancouver BC to Evrett WA

http://www.chly.fm

Very Left, very holistic, very jazzy, very space-rocky, and very goth/punk.

[buddhamama]

2. WERU

voted twelth best in the Nation by GQ magazine.
here's there programming page- a bit of everything
http://www.weru.org/programming.html

[JanMichael]

5. 12th? I'm not certain if WMNF was on that list.

I'll take a look later.

Nice site:-)

[MaineDem]

20. Excellent station

I listen to it whenever I'm able to get it. It JUST barely comes in up here. I have it programmed on the car radio for when I go to the flatland. :)

They'll be broadcasting live from the National Folk Festival in Bangor this weekend.

[TheBigGuy]

6. Cincinnati Ohio, believ it or not:

WAIF ..."stepchild radio'...

http://www.waif883.org/

Cincy also has a good "alternative rock" station (commercial) in WOXY.

Dayton used to have WYSO, but it has recieved the "NPR Yuppie Lobotomy", and is not really worth listenting to much anymore.

[Droopy]

15. Hey BigGuy, I'm from the Dayton area

Miamisburg to be exact. Your right about WYSO. It's a good source for news, but that's about it. There ain't jack shit on here as far as liberal programing goes.

[RainDog]

8. here's mine

http://www.wfhb.org/listen.shtml


WFHB TOP 60 8/19/03:

artist title label
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1. Danny Barnes Dirt on the Angel Terminus
2. Aaron Neville Nature Boy Verve
3. Summer Hymns Clemency Misra
4. Andrew Bird Weather Systems Righteous Babe
5. Super Furry Animals Phantom Power XL/Beggars
6. New Pornographers Electric Version Matador/Mint
7. The Vulgar Boatmen Wide Awake No Nostalgia
8. Pernice Brothers Yours, Mine & Ours Ashmont
9. Bob Dylan/Various Masked and Anonymous Columbia
10. Michael Franti & Spearhead Everyone Deserves Music iMusic
11. Otis Taylor Truth Is Not Fiction Telarc
12. Scruggs/Watson/Skaggs The Three Pickers Rounder
13. Marshall Crenshaw What's In The Bag? Razor & Tie
14. Gary Jules Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets Gary Jules
15. Eels Shootenanny Dreamworks
16. The Clientele The Violet Hour Merge
17. Bela Fleck Ten From Little Worlds Columbia
18. The Swimming Pool Q's Royal Academy of Reality Bar/None
19. Robinella and the CC String Band s/t Columbia
20. Taj Mahal Hanapepe Dream Tone-Cool
21. Tim O'Brien Traveler Sugar Hill
22. Sara Lovell Coming To Zero Gravity
23. Poi Dog Pondering In Seed Comes Fruit Premonition
24. Ween Quebec Sanctuary
25. Various Artists !K7 150 !K7
26. Fountains of Wayne Welcome Interstate Managers S-Curve
27. Dwight Yoakam Population: Me Koch/Audium
28. Joe Ely Streets of Sin Rounder
29. Colin Linden Big Mouth Accord
30. Chris Smither Train Home Hightone
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31. Brassy Gettin Wise Wiija/Beggars
32. Tricky Vulnerable Sanctuary
33. Turn Pale Kill the Lights What Else
34. Susheela Raman Love Trap Narada
35. Radiohead Hail to the Thief Capitol
36. Jay Farrar Terrior Blues Act Resist
37. Various Artists Traveler '03 Six Degrees
38. Gillian Welch Soul Journey Acony
39. Chris Lee Cool Rock Misra
40. The Dandy Warhols Welcome To The Monkey House Capitol
41. Bill Mallonee Perfumed Letter Paste
42. Pete Droge Skywatching Puzzle Tree
43. Sixteen Horsepower Olden Jetset
44. R. L. Burnside First Recordings Fat Possum
45. Quetzal Worksongs Vanguard
46. Scott Miller Upside Downside Sugar Hill
47. Shooglenifty The Arms Dealer's Daughter Compass
48. Madlib Shades of Blue Blue Note
49. Kris Delmhorst Songs for a Hurricane Signature Sounds
50. Eastmountainsouth Eastmountainsouth Dreamworks
51. Various Johnny's Blues Northern Blues
52. Indigenous Indigenous Silvertone
53. Clem Snide Soft Spot Spinart
54. Vusi Mahlasela The Voice ATO
55. RH Factor Hard Groove Verve
56. Allison Moorer Show Universal South
57. Two Loons for Tea Looking for Landmarks Sarathan
58. Los Lonely Boys Los Lonely Boys Or
59. Greg Osby St. Louis Shoes Blue Note
60. Burning Spear Free Man Burning Spear

[huckleberry]

9. Washington, DC - 89.3 FM

http://www.wpfw.org/

[Sushi_lover]

10. WRFG Atlanta Georgia 89.3

WRFG Radio Free Georgia
Your station for progressive information

http://www.wrfg.org/

Blues in the a.m.
Democracy Now on the p.m. drive

local talk shows

lots of bluegrass and world music and jazz

[KamaAina]

11. KTUH, 90.3 FM, Honolulu

one of the last old-line college radio outlets, plus you can actually hear it off-campus with their massive new 3000-watt transmitter (still a little weak on the mainland, though :( )!

http://www.ktuh.org

Top 30
1. UGLY DUCKLING : Taste the Secret (Emperor Norton)
2. KAVET THE CATALYST/IVU : Livicated to EP (Lightsleepers)
3. METRIC : Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? (Elgonix)
4. RITHMA : Music Fiction (OM)
5. BRAND NEW : Deja Entendu (Razor & Tie)
6. PUFFY AMIYUMI : Nice (Bar None)
7. AFTER HOURS : The Trouble With Those Guys Is (Jump Up)
8. IRENE REID : Movin' Out (Savant)
9. NONE MORE BLACK : File Under Black (Fat Wrech Chords)
10. PAINT IT BLACK : CVA (Jade Tree)
11. FRENZAL RHOMB : Sans Souci (Fet Wreck Chords)
12. MCCOY TYNER : Land of Giants (Telarc)
13. ARMOR FOR SLEEP : Dream to Make Believe (Equal Vision)
14. GUIDED BY VOICES : Earthquake Glue (Matador)
15. PLANET SMASHERS : Mighty (Stomp Records)
16. ME FIRST & THE GIMMIE GIMMIES : Take a Break (Epitaph)
17. SUICIDE MACHINES : A Match and Some Gasoline (Side One Dummy)
18. LAKE TROUT : Another One Lost (Palm)
19. MADLIB : Shades of Blue - Madlib Invades Blue Note (Blue Note)
20. JOSH ROUSE : 1972 (Rykodisc)
21. OLIVIA : For the Kids (Haleiwa Joe's)
22. LONDON ELEKTRICITY : Billion Dollar Gravy (Breakbeat Science)
23. A NORTHERN CHORUS : Spirit Flags (Sonic Unyon)
24. GAMEFACE : Four To Go (Doghouse)
25. YELLOWCARD : Ocean Avenue (Capitol)
26. DANDY WARHOLS : Welcome to the Monkey House (Capitol)
27. STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO : Everything Goes Numb (Victory)
28. WEEN : Quebec (Sanctuary)
29. UNWED SAILOR : Marionette and the Music Box (Gentlemen)
30. CARLA WERNER : Departure (Columbia)

McCoy Tyner at #12! Yessssssss!!

[Ein]

12. The Rush channel here

has a guy sandwhiched b/t Rush and O'Rielly, named Kevin Lindh. He describes himself as a goldwater conservative, but he's rational.

A usual show involves him point out Rush's BS that day, the usual run of the mill local stuff, and the guy has been hammering the Bushistas since the last tax cuts.

And that is as liberal as it gets up here in NEPA, save some random college station shows.

[Droopy]

13. None here

About the closest thing we've got is the local NPR station that broadcasts out of a college twenty miles away. They carry a one hour progressive program that broadcasts at 11 pm on Wednesday nights. I forget what it's called but the host's name is David Barsamian. Maybe you know what I'm talking about, it's a nationally syndicated program specializing in foreign policy critics. Noam Chomsky, Arundati Roi etc.

The airwaves around here are dominated by Clear Channel and conservative hacks. For music we get the generic country, rock and top 40 stations. For talk we get all the big nationally syndicated conservatives, local conservatives and sports. Radio is pretty dull around these parts if your a progressive.

[KG]

14. WMNF-FM 88.5 the best little radio station on planet earth.

gotta have it- the only station i ever listen to.

and coming Sept 13 - for the annual birthday bash - the legendary Jimmy Lafave!

http://www.wmnf.org/events/index.shtml?Action=Detail&ID=105


hey, check this out!!!! - this is a pic i took of JL at Wings and Strings Festival near Lakeland, FL in 2001. :bounce:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. Both my current and former cities have them

Portland: KBOO, 90.7. A rather free-form and scruffy station with a wide variety of music, the usual Pacifica news programs, and some great talk radio hosts.

Minneapolis: KFAI, 90.3 "fresh air radio." I've caught them only briefly. I listend to Democracy Now during lunch. They play world music from 1 to 3 every afternoon.

[devilgrrl]

17. Yes - KPFK 90.7FM

http://kpfk.org/

Not as much music as I'd like but great for progressive news shows.

[Zan_of_Texas]

18. Coupla ways to broaden your radio scope

Okay, make that three ways.

1. If you're new in your area and don't know what's out there, you can check on this list. Free Speech Radio News is a grass roots int'l news show, 5 days a week. Whether you want to hear that show or not, the list of stations that carry that is interesting. See if a town near you is on it.

http://www.fsrn.org/broadcast.html

2. There are 5 Pacifica stations -- fiercely independent. NYC, DC, Houston, Berkeley, LA. www.pacifica.org

3. If you like Public Radio in general, here's a customizable way to find out what's on. Or, when your favorite syndicated show is on, like Democracy Now or Fresh Air or many others. http://www.publicradiofan.com/


If cool air waves don't reach you on your radio, tune in on your computer. Adopt a station, or rotate!

[flama]

19. The van's radio is welded to 88.5

There are some reception problems around Venice, but I've gotten the station clear as a bell as far away as LaBelle (don't ask what I was doing there).

Unfortunately, it doesn't come in on the indoor receivers 'round here. That's OK. I can listen on the computer - where I spend most of the time anyway. ;-)

Thanks for mentioning the Greatest Little Radio Station on Planet Earth! Everyone should have a radio station not beholdin' to corporate sponsors. Now we're finding out who does.

Ma

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

21. WBAI in NYC, a Pacifica station

"Peace and Justice Radio" Good music, good talk shows, excellent news coverage. Plus it has Amy Goodman!

[Lindsey]

22. KPFK Pacifica

I don't think I would have survived without this station. Amy Goodman and Democracy Now rocks! To all of you Southern Californians - this is 90.7 and it is a MUST.

[htuttle]

23. WORT 89.9 FM, Community Radio in Madison

http://www.wort-fm.org/

Democracy Now, Flashpoints, Free Speech Radio News, BBC Headlines, the local Insurgent Radio Kiosk, and about a dozen other news shows.

8/18/03 WORT CHARTS

overall top 30/rock/pop/singer-songwriters

# ARTIST Recording
1 WEEN Quebec
2 FIREWATER The Man On The Burning Tightrope
3 JAY FARRAR Terroir Blues
4 SI BEGG Director's Cut
5 CAFE TACUBA Cuatro Caminos
6 MASKED AND ANONYMOUS SOUNDTRACK
7 DANDY WARHOLS Welcome To The Monkey House
8 PERNICE BROTHERS Yours, Mine And Ours
9 CLIENTELE The Violet Hour
10 TRICKY Vulnerable
11 PELE Elephant
12 FIRESIDE Get Shot
13 SINGAPORE SLING The Curse Of Singapore Sling
14 TV ON THE RADIO Young Liars
15 POLYSICS
16 SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Phantom Power
17 SLEEPY JACKSON Lovers
18 PUFFY AMIYUMI Nice
19 THE TYDE Twice
20 MICHAEL YONKERS BAND Microminiature Love
21 FAUX JEAN Dead Lover
22 IMA ROBOT Public Access
23 PASTELS The Last Great Wilderness
24 KINGS OF LEON Youth And Young Manhood
25 METRIC Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
26 SURVIVE AND ADVANCE: VOLUME 3 VARIOUS ARTISTS
27 JOSH ROUSE 1972
28 FRIZ Looking For Green
29 MONDO GENERATOR A Drug Problem That Never Existed
30 BJORK Live Box: 1993-2002
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[SaintLouisBlues]

24. St. Louis

KDHX 88.1 FM

Mostly music (especially Blues and Soul) but also Democracy Now!

All volunteer community radio. It is the best!