Best "Independent" Radio Stations (station, music, AM, FM)
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I'm not familiar with those so I don't quite know what you mean.
I enjoy WMVY, a public supported station out of Martha's Vinyard. MVYRADIO is at https://mvyradio.org/ for streaming, which is how I listen to it, 2000 miles away out in the desert.
My interest is music and performances ...sometimes interspersed with small craft warnings. It is a good place to hear new music along with some older 60's & 70's stuff. It would not be everyone's favorite. It reminds me of a couple shoestring stations I used to listen to decades ago.
I'm not familiar with those so I don't quite know what you mean.
I enjoy WMVY, a public supported station out of Martha's Vinyard. MVYRADIO is at https://mvyradio.org/ for streaming, which is how I listen to it, 2000 miles away out in the desert.
My interest is music and performances ...sometimes interspersed with small craft warnings. It is a good place to hear new music along with some older 60's & 70's stuff. It would not be everyone's favorite. It reminds me of a couple shoestring stations I used to listen to decades ago.
Officially WTMD plays "Adult Album Alternative" music. I would paste the wiki link and definition here but not sure if I'm allowed.
WWCD in Columbus Ohio https://cd1025.com/ . Liked them a whole lot in the 90s as the only station in Columbus Ohio playing alternative music. Still playing alternative today, and they do play lots of older stuff going back even into the 1970s.
WEVL in Memphis is an independent, volunteer supported station with an eclectic format and ZERO politics. You'll hear blues, jazz, old school country, world music, rock and roll, new wave and punk, folk, Celtic, bluegrass, gospel, rap and other music genres.
WWOZ in New Orleans is a non-profit community-supported radio station in New Orleans. It is owned by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation. The station specializes in music from or relating to the cultural heritage of New Orleans and the surrounding region of Louisiana. The playlist includes Jazz, Blues and other world music
KEXP is one of my favorites. It is from Seattle, WA, and is very indie forward, but plays some interesting latin, 80's punk, and other surprises a bit. I guess it depends when you listen to it.
I used to live near Pittsburgh, PA. They have WYEP, which is a listener-supported AAA station. I also liked WRCT, student radio for Carnegie Mellon. Some interesting Indian music on there, but also I've heard some ambient techno and some other things.
KUOI - student station at Idaho.
KZSC - UC Santa Cruz. Training ground for UCSC journalism and broadcasting students.
KDHX - St. Louis. Listener-supported, AAA format, but with cultural blocks and some news/public affairs, too.
WMNF - Tampa. Freeform, volunteer, community-supported. My first foray into this world of left-dial radio.
WNCW - Spindale, NC, out of Isothermal Community College, but seems to be run professionally. Very diverse, but with a focus on local music, sometimes Appalachian folk.
San Diego, my city, has a jazz station (many forms) out of its downtown junior college, San Diego City College, and it has an HD2 that appears student-run, but plays (from my experience) commercial hits from the 80's to the 2000s, maybe in a different mix than you'd hear on commercial radio, though. KSDS Jazz 88 and "SDS" on the HD2. San Marcos has a similar station out of its junior college. Not as good DJs there. KKSM.
We are really lacking of anything resembling a KEXP or KDHX.
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