I get to listen to Internet live streamed radio at work and I getting sick of the same stuff and am looking to expand my horizons.
I’d prefer mostly music over talk, but I’m wide open to musical styles.
It doesn’t have to be English.
If you added a live steam link to your recommendation I’d appreciate it.
Thanks ahead of time.
It can vary widely from hour to hour, so keep trying until you find a slot you like. Right now it’s a pretty good new music show, but if you wait until 7, it’s the best movie show you’ll likely ever hear.
I like WKHR 91.5 in Bainbridge Township, Ohio, which started out at 10 watts in Kenston High School (thereby the KH) and could rarely be heard beyond the school’s parking lot. They are now up to a whopping 750 watts. It plays jazz and big band from the '20s through the '50s, with some modern stuff like Michael Bublé and Diana Krall.
The students are the daytime announcers and it’s a total riot listening to them butcher names like Bix Beiderbecke and João Gilberto. They play obscure '20s Dixieland and Annette Hanshaw; the downside is they also play crap like Jack Jones and if I hear one more June Christy record I will hurl. But it’s great to catch something sometimes, if you happen to be in the vicinity.
The web site (sorry, can’t link to radio web sites at work) FAQs say if you’re having trouble tuning in the station, your best bet is to drive your car into your living room.
Radio’s not that good in Bangkok. Met 107 is probably as good as it gets. Used to be Classic Rock, but then they switched back to comtemporary a couple or three years ago. I think you can get them over the Internet.
http://www.1037themountain.com/
This is one of the big mainstream rock stations in Seattle. It was named by Rolling Stone one of the top 5 internet radio streams.
KEXP is another stream of a highly rated Seattle-based terrestrial radio station. It’s much more alternative and where you hear alot of new bands.
www.wrek.org. Check it out.
An indie rock public radio station. No commercials, and plenty of local and indie music.
v89, WVFS: The Voice of FSU. Actually, much much more than that. A great independent radio station with volunteer DJs from all over the community. Their Sunday morning blues show is well worth waking up for.
Oh, and if you happen to listen on Tuesdays at 9pm, you’ll catch the Miracle Nutrition Hour with Hearty White, which is a sort of comedy/religious/nutrition talk show by a local performer. Hard to describe, but awesome.
New Orleans’ own WWOZ (www.wwoz.org) is a gem for any and all music lovers, from a city that is recognized worldwide for its musical bounty…
They’re a local station, and last I heard they were 80% free format (four out of five songs the DJ plays whatever they want). Technically they’re rock, but they also play country, bluegrass, indie pop (not top 40), and whatever else they feel like playing. By far the best station in the Washington DC area (with the possible exception of WTMD, which I can’t quite get the signal for). You just never know what they’re going to play next.
I really like it!
I was kinda hoping for some foreign ones as well, wheres the Straight Dope global village on this one?
I hate local radio commercials and the crap that was forced into their streams in lieu of commercials isn’t much better. So I prefer streams from somewhere else; my radio station of choice is Australian.
KEXP Seattle
CD 101 from Columbus.
Minnesota Public Radio is awesome. Commercial-free, very brief interruptions by the pleasant DJs, and they keep me hip to new (mostly indie and electronic) music. It seems like every new artist I hear on the station has mainstream success about 6 months later. The new music is interspersed with stuff you know and love, dating back to the 1920s.
Another one from Australia is 2WS from the Western Suburbs of Sydney. Being from there and the fact that they play older rock with a large percentage of 60’ - 80’s Australian content they make me very happy. Even better listening in the US on the East Coast during the typical work day, you get their overnight shows. They have less commercials and play some deeper cuts as well. The Australian content may give you some bands you haven’t heard of.
Link: http://www.2ws.com.auTwo my favorites are:
They mostly play contemporary rock/metal (Seether, Staind, etc.), “alternative” rock, and Nu-metal, but recently they’ve added 80s heavy metal and even some 70s classic rock (Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath) to their playlists
They play hard rock and more classic rock, or “album rock” as it has been called.
That’s already my favorite radio station, I suppose I should have put that in the OP.
http://www.kettering.edu/wkuf/
Kettering University
It’s student programmed, huge variety of music, like the weather; if you don’t like it wait and hour and it’ll change