" The sleepy romanticism of these oldies created perfect fodder for the duo to sample for their own musical dreamscapes. The Troggs' " Give It to Me " features prominently on "Go On," while Randy & the Rainbows' " Denise " is the bedrock of "Edge of the Edge," and " Three Steps to Heaven " by Eddie Cochran is the basis of " Gettin’ to the Point. On Reset, Lennox and Kember sample '60s and '70s pop songs, and doo-wop harmonies, to amplify lyrics about love, longing, and loneliness. Peter Kember), a founding member of pioneering shoegaze band Spacemen 3 who shares Lennox's love of looping and samples. 12, Panda Bear released a new album in collaboration with longtime colleague Sonic Boom (a.k.a. Their albums, notably 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, inspired the sound of indie rock for the next decade.Īnimal Collective's Noah Lennox, also known as Panda Bear, has sustained a successful solo career pushing the AC's sampling, loops, and vocal harmonies into new places. At the forefront of this artistic reformation was Animal Collective, a four-piece band whose jarring, melancholic sound collages were drenched in reverb.Īnimal Collective took cues from psychedelia, freak folk, Beat poetry, and performance art, creating a new sound that embraced lo-fi production and sampling while resisting genre categorization. Richard Wagoner is a San Pedro freelance columnist covering radio in Southern California.American art hit a reset in the mid-2000s, as musicians began to reinstitute experimentation and DIY ethos back into music. You know, when it as an industry was successful. The idea is so simple even a child could figure it out: play what kids want to hear, cut the commercials down to make each spot worth more and not drive away listeners, and get into their lives through promotions, live broadcasts, sponsored events and concerts. But I think it’s going to come from the small-time owners. The trick is: can it be reversed? I think so. Yet many teens do just fine without AM or FM. Demento, radio was such a huge part of my life that I cannot imagine life without it. Morgan, Charlie Tuna, or Bobby Ocean, or the later days of Shana, Rita Wilde, Joe Benson, Jeff Gonzer, Jim Ladd or even Dr. Whether it was the top-40 days listening to Robert W. But it surprised me, coming from a generation that grew up with the radio as one of our closest friends. I realize this is in no way a scientific, peer-reviewed, fully vetted survey using random sampling. On the other hand, fewer than 2.6 percent said that of streaming services, and fully 36 percent of respondents said they listen to streaming services at least 90% of the time. Just slightly more than 21 percent of the students surveyed listen to FM radio at all, and of those, over half said they listen to FM radio only about 10% of the time.
That question is: What percentage of your music listening time is spent on streaming (Spotify, Apple, YouTube, etc), what percent on SiriusXM, and what percent on AM or FM radio? Certainly, streaming may be big as a first choice, but traditional radio has to be a close second, right? In years past, it would have been closer to 90.īut because the question regarded their “favorite” way to listen to music, a follow-up question became necessary to truly determine if there is an issue. Less than four percent of those surveyed chose a radio station as their favorite way to listen to music. On the other hand, 66 choose Spotify, 29 chose Apple Music, and the remaining votes were split among other online streaming services or apps.That’s frightening if you are a station owner or manager. Want to know how many radio stations were chosen? Four, with a total of six votes: KIIS (102.7) garnered three, with KRRL (Real 92.3 FM), KKLA (99.5 FM), and K-Jazz (88.1 FM) earning one vote each.
So I tested these analog tuners and here’s what I found. In spite of the name, go listen, either over the air, via an app, or at the website. It’s an excellent adult album alternative (AAA) format that, like much of commercial LA radio, skews too much into the oldies, but is immensely satisfying and can’t be found locally anywhere else on the dial. And there are.īut this is not meant to take away from the 88.5 format. On the other hand, you can have an “alt” or a “my” in every city. Less clutter.īy now you’re asking: Why do I like real call letters? Simple, like sports franchises, they belong to the city in which they live. Maybe combine the two with the K and S that appear in both ad call it KS88, The SoCal Sound.” Much better overall, at least in my opinion.
Personally, I’d just use KCSN (the simulcast station from Saddleback college, KSBR, is “OK” but definitely not as strong a brand. And yet, they actually have great call letters, though it is complicated with a two-station simulcast that tries to increase signal coverage.