"Why do you keep saying that?"

"'Cause they pay me every time I do. It's a really good way of making money. You're so smart, why don't you know that?"

While KEXP is out at the glamorous over-the-air NY ball, RainyDawg radio will be polishing the online cutlery in the HUB basement. UW should pull the frequency and give it back to the students!!!

And maddogm13, go buy the CD if you don't hear 'em enough!!!

I request the cave singers, and i've heard them a bunch...

Maybe when you got your pledge renewal envelope you might notice that it came in a UW envelope. If you look at URLs you might notice that UW is donating the bandwidth for KEXP's blog. But you'd be really hard pressed to ever hear acknowledgement over the air that UW has anything to do with KEXP, let alone provided the frequency on which it broadcasts.

Keep on pledging suckas!!

This has everything to do with bringing in more $ and bending over backwards to make John happy. I like his show, I don't begrudge him the high salary they pay him, but this is going too far, and they're putting the station at risk.

I've already talked to almost a dozen long-time members who are done with donating to KEXP in light of this latest move.

Not that it matters, but I sent a CD to Rainydawg and never heard anything nor had a single track played.. Meanwhile KEXP offered an in-studio and played our album in regular/heavy rotation for a month+! And no... We don't know any of the DJs or employees personally at either station and aren't ex-members of any prior cool bands.

Just sayin'..

The fact that ANYBODY hates on John for doing his job with all the sacrifices he has to make is fucking ludicrous. Most people that bitch about it don't know how much he really has done for this scene.

I don't usually comment on these, because it's such a negative blast from everybody, but I get tired of listening to people talk shit about somebody for no real apparent reason.

As for not playing local music outside of Saturdays? Are you high or don't listen to KEXP?

Current Charts:

1. Helio Sequence our brothers to the south
8. The Hands
9. Cancer Rising
12. Chris Walla yeah, he's in a big band, but still from the NW
36. Say Hi
42. Vellela Vellela
50. Black Eyes and Neckties
59. Cave Singers don't care what you say, they all live in Seattle
63. The Lashes
68. The Physics
89. Shim
90. Kultur Shock

Stop Hating

Not afraid to be anonymous either.

And here you've shown information from KEXP's music Chart. I'm not sure what the chart indicates (does it indicate # of plays?)
But you seem to be saying that 12 local bands out of a list 90 is showing us how well KEXP is supporting it's local music community. Hmm. I get a different take on those numbers.

Are you more against this outsourcing of music KCMU FAN, or are you against the lack of free-form structure? It sucks that not as many local bands might not be heard (compared to the KCMU days), but maybe that means they should just start practicing harder?... :)

I haven't decided yet whether the NYC thing is good or bad for local bands. It seems like we have plenty of (good) bands here that do not get played on KEXP, so I guess I'm leaning toward the idea that more NY bands that KEXP DJs, Program Directors, etc, prefer, will get air time and leave those other bands out in the cold, even though they're local. The NYC connection will certainly be a good thing for the type of music that has been preferred by KEXP. But KEXP, for all of the hard work, just miss a lot. I'm not sure what yo mean by free-form structure...