Strolling along my old stomping grounds in the East Village of Manhattan last week I ran into this marvelous new mural, painted on the corner of Second Avenue and First Street. (more…)
Author Archive | Matthew Lasar
Watch your low power FM too at WXRW of Milwaukee
Doh! I missed a station in my overview of recent Low Power FM activity in Wisconsin. Radio Survivor reader Daniel Hintz writes to us: “Great article. Saw no mention of the great station I currently DJ at, though: WXRW in Milwaukee, Riverwest Radio. We have our LPFM license in hand and we will soon be […]
Coastal Washington community network will celebrate national radio and lemonade days
Coast Community Radio of Washington State has issued an invitation to its listeners: “Celebrate National Radio Day with us on Thursday August 20 from 11-3! But wait, it’s also National Lemonade Day and you know here at Coast Community Radio we love to bring two good things together and make one great thing! So join […]
Radio 4ZZZ and Brisbane’s postpunk explosion
John Willsteed of Brisbane, Australia is setting up a “live” documentary about the Brisbane music scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The performance doc is called “It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity.” A reporter writing about Willsteed’s work places much significance on Brisbane community signal radio 4ZZZ. Tony Moore of the Brisbane […]
New music seekers say farewell to AM/FM as first choice
Larry Rosin of Edison Research has this to say on his blog about the new music discovery market and radio: “Our tracking data shows that over the course of the last 13 years ‘Radio’ has been supplanted by ‘Internet’ as the source Americans turn to first to learn about new music.” It certainly has, as […]
Inside Wisconsin’s Low Power FM “broadcasting craze”
Midwestern reporters are talking about a “broadcasting craze” in Wisconsin, as five Low Power FM radio stations take hold across the state. These stations broadcast or will broadcast to communities 30 to 80 miles west of Milwaukee. They’re all around 20 to 40 miles apart from each other in a 40 mile area. The latest […]
Notes on the Meteor Guitar Gallery of Arkansas’ low power radio future
Here is some backstory on how a community radio station will soon be broadcasting from a guitar store. In the beginning there was the Meteor Theater of Bentonville, Arkansas. One Mr. Harry Kelly, a lover of movies, built it for around $30,000. The Meteor, as it came to be called, opened in 1927, premiering Venus […]
“We need our bats.” Radio Lillooet considers its non-human constituents
From community radio station Radio Lillooet off the Fraser River of British Columbia comes a work-in-progress titled “Old Planet, Young People.” The final product will be eight pre-recorded documentaries on environmental research in and around Lillooet. But a lot of the program seems like it will be about critters. There is, in fact, quite a bit […]
This is My Jam and the hazards of indie music curation
The music curation site This is My Jam says that it is going into a kind “time capsule” mode, starting in September. “This means you won’t be able to post anymore, but you’ll be able to browse a new archive version of the site,” My Jam says on its Tumblr blog. I regret that I […]
LPFM will reach out to older Fort Yuma area Native Americans
Some interesting back story on how KUAV 105.1 Kwatsan Radio in Winterhaven, California got its inspiration. Members of the Fort Yuma Quechan tribe started an Internet radio station in 2010 to foster a “modern approach to increasing knowledge around the culture and traditions of the Quechan people,” according to the operation’s website. But the stream’s […]