Songs & Artists NEVER HEARD on the RADIO?

Well, I listen almost exclusively to "Listener Supported" radio stations. Some are college stations, some not. I hear a lot of great music. I've heard ALL of the artist you mentioned on WNKU (Northern Kentucky University). We have 3 good public radio stations here in Cincinnati and regionally, a good station in Columbus, Oh and Lexington/Georgetown, Ky. If you like the "Singer/Songwriter" genre, it's probably public radio or nothing.

BTW, WNKU also supports these artist Live shows in the Cincinnati Area. Support your local "listener supported" station and the artist by going to the Live show. It's win-win!

Enjoy,

TIC

Sounds like Reubent lives in a great area for better FM. It is great to live in an area with a good selection on NPR/public stations...esp. small college..and esp. several towns to draw from.

I live in Madison, Wi....and as hip as this town "thinks" it is, it just isn't. Public radio here..that is seen as "cool" is still Prairie Home Companion....kind of the NPR version of "Hew Haw" for college towns.

Even when I visit Cedar Rapids, Iowa..they have a Community College station that has a better sense of music.

Part of the problem in Madison...is that other towns are just a bit too far away...for decent FM reception....I guess I could put up a house on the biggest hill in town...with a 200 ft. mast...with stacked Finco FM-4 feed into an Marnatz 10B..that I don't mind re-tuning every 30 seconds..point the antenna towards Chicago after midnight..and.....naw!

Although quite popular here (NE OH), I don't recall ever hearing anything by The Tragically Hip. Different story, I assume, north of the border, eh?

We have a station, WRNR, in Washington DC area (it's actually in Graysonville, MD) that plays all the eclectic, singer-songwriter stuff you could ever want. I can sometimes get it off the air, but otherwise you can hear it on the internet, site used to be www.wrnr.com. I've also heard a couple of great west coast stations on the internet that play all kinds of artists like the ones mentioned in previous posts as never heard: KCRW (California somewhere) and KCMU (Seattle).

Sounds like the pattern is the same all over the country, I thought it was just the "wasteland" of FM here in the Seattle Tacoma area. I have long given up listening to FM for anything decent, with the wonderful exception of KPLU-Tacoma, which is listener-supported Jazz, Blues and NPR news. My idea of torture is being forced to listen to the same, tired, played-to-death songs that are spun over and over and over and over on the "big" Seattle stations. It's bad, folks, real bad. The upside of this is that I've started reading various music magazines for info on new and exciting artists, and have discovered a whole world of cool music that "corpradio" wouldn't touch with a stick. Stereolab, Beck, even Radiohead? Coldplay, David Byrne, or Moby? Not likely in this lifetime. Good luck finding anything interesting when the advertisers are involved...