no comprende! sombrero!

[rone]

So the evil that is ClearChannel has killed old KSJO and replaced it with a Spanish music station (PDF), and if there's something that San Jose really needed, it was another Spanish music station. This follows changes made three weeks ago, when they turned an AM big band station into liberal talk radio, moved the big band station to 92.1, which was the Walnut Creek KSJO frequency, which doesn't come in south of Hwy 92 or so. It was amusing last night to go to KSJO's Web site (don't bother now, it's dead) and see the butthead rocker style all over the place, but watch the playlist include stuff by Los Tigres del Norte and Camilo Sesto.

So, now there is no catch-all rock station to be found in the Bay Area. Sure, KSJO has been in a downward spiral of suck in the last few years, but then, so has rock. Still, if mainstreamed rock were to improve, where would we be able to hear it now? The alternative stations will rarely touch anything that's abrasive. CC's Radio page has a big graphic in the middle that reads, "LESS IS MORE". Less variety means more money for them, i guess.

And, yes, i know the lyrics are officially, "No comprende - it's a riddle", but fuck `em, that's stupid. My interpretation is much better.

Comments

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

Still, if mainstreamed rock were to improve, where would we be able to hear it now?

The only place it was to be found for, at least!, the last decade or two.

It's called word-of-mouth.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Er, the last decade or two included KSJO, and word-of-mouth probably sprang from it. And even if i do hear about new rock, where will i actually hear it?

Or, by "word-of-mouth", do you mean my friends will be singing to me in lieu of radio?

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

We don't have "KSJO" here, so getting introduced to non-"Top10" new music has always been via word-of-mouth. Unless you want to count MTV, which I don't. There's been shows on various radio statuins with clueful people, but they were rare to start with, and are non-existant for at least 10 years now ("GR's rock show"!!).

[kodi]

Odd, ClearChannel just killed off our mainstream rock station in Dallas a few months ago. They replaced it with "Sunny 97.1".

The ClearChannel alternative station has actually started playing some more mainstream-rock-ish stuff since that happened, but it's really weak.

[kodi]

By "The ClearChannel alternative station," I mean to say "the station owned by ClearChannel which claims to play alternative music", not "the token station in Dallas not owned by ClearChannel."

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I gathered that; here, that's Channel 104.9 (http://www.channel1049.com/main.html).

[brokensymmetry.livejournal.com]

if mainstreamed rock were to improve, where would we be able to hear it now?

Is there any hope for live365.com (http://www.live365.com) or XM satellite radio (http://xmradio.com)? I know there are technical issues with each (need a computer and broadband for the former and an expensive proprietary gadget for the latter), but is there content available on either that's close to what you're looking for?

[omarius.livejournal.com]

We have the opposite problem here--all the "alternative" stations focus on Modern Rock--specifically, on the louder/faster/angrier varieties. The one real "alternative" station we had here got dumped to make room for a third classic rock station we don't need. The only local rock station I enjoy now are the rock portions of one of our two local public radio station.

[some_other_dave]

I haven't bothered with KJSO in the morning since they went to "Bob and Tom". Uh, wasn't it supposed to be a MUSIC station?

This morning, I was station-surfing on my way to work, and heard Lamont and Tonelli (over on 107.7) talk about some big news with their previous radio station. So I hit the #1 station button, and oh my...

Sucks to be a rock and roll fan in the South Bay.

Mainstreamed rock?

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

Would that be, like, Wonderbus forced to take regular classes?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

In my very limited experience, live365.com's stations tend to have too narrow a focus, and XM, well, i'm a cheap bastard. Hope? You're asking the wrong guy...

[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

Live365 has some great stuff, but you do have to spend a lot of time shopping around. I finally found about 10 stations to leave in my presets, and I alternate through those. You can't leave it on just one station; it's really useless unless you're at the computer while listening.

Ultimately, though, my mp3 collection is where it's at. We buy a lot of used CDs and rip the songs we want into our randomized collection.