Keeps me sane… . … . KUSC.org
24/7, no commercials.
Nice. Will check that out. I listen to classical 96.3 but there are tons of commercials for retirement and old people things. annoying.
R
I’m an 89.3 The Current kind of guy most of the time, from Minnesota Public Radio. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/streams.shtml
Plays a nice mix of tunes from Rock, Minnesota Hip Hop like Atmosphere and Dessa, Alt Country like Mumford and Sons, Avett Brothers, etc. Cool stuff and fairly commercial free until you hit a pledge drive.
Nice. I’ve been digging The NPR All Songs Considered 24/7 music channel for a few months now. They play 10 years worth of tracks featured on “All Songs Considered”. That spans a pretty wide range of music styles. Here are their last 10 tracks played today:
Sigur Ros all alright
Ollabelle Before This Time
Brian Eno By This River
Amber Rubarth You Will Love This Song
Grey DeLisle Bohemian Rhapsody
Billie Holiday Tenderly
The Beatles Free As A Bird
El Perro Del Mar Glory To The World
Choir Of Young Believers Hollow Talk
Stuart Murdoch Another Saturday
I listen to BBC 6 Music and WMNF from Tampa. Very eclectic:
Didn’t I happen to tell you about SOMA FM ?
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great ambient tracks on cool ad free channels.
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Great to see the Current already mentioned, Nurb, do you have the window cling? (like everyone else in MSP)
I was out in Seattle for a wedding last year and found KEXP to be pretty awesome as well (kexp.org)
I did. But, not any more. It’s like having an iPod these day.
PERFECT design music.
Thoughts?
Exactly what’s wrong with the music industry.
A 13 yr old girl, with parents to pay for the realisation of her dream/music. Interesting that its almost up to par with a professional launch of a new artist.
What I think is funny is this just shows how much talent William or Lady Gaga really have. Look, a 13 year old can do 95% of what you do. I’d like to see a 13 year old start cranking out CPUs in his bunk bed. A 13 year old designing a digital camera (no cheating just doing a PS render…I want a functional mech. study model, tech drawings and an appearance model).
Good opinion about why this is all OUR fault.
Nice column! My hope is that the pendulum in that direction will lose its momentum soon and start going in the other direction.
“Won’t somebody please think of the children!” - Maud Flanders
Devil’s advocate (we’re waaay OT here, so not even going to try to get back OT).
Sure, it sounds like any other pop song, but is that any different from any concept on a fancy concept only site (Yanko, etc.) showing a rendering of a nice product and calling it 95% of what real designers do? Surely the meat of it is different. Be it engineering or marketing or lyrics…
This is the same. It’s music. It’s a video. It’s got some hook. I’ve heard a lot of this in the news but only now saw the video. Honestly, it’s not as bad as I expected from all the posts written about it. It’s bad, yes, but any worse than Justin Bieber, Katie Perry, T-pain, Britney, or any other pop-star? Not so much.
Relating back to design, it’s the same as a concept design, or weak real design, IMHO. Some of the parts are there, but not the whole.
R
You are totally right. But what makes it so disgusting (to me) is that in order to be the next great thing it takes, a song with simple lyrics, auto-tune, and $2K from your parents to get the video made and posted.
The music industry reduced to this. Sad, really.
We are to blame because we’re not buying guns and shooting everything that’s bad 
We should be more involved. Actions speak louder than negative internet comments, so we should act and start now.