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blogger brought to my attention an new radio station
CBS Radio re-launched their legendary NY rock radio station WNEW recently. It’s a group blog about music, it’s a last.fm group (built by the combined scrobbling history of all of the group members), it’s an internet radio station, and it’s available over the air on HD2 at 102.7 (you need an HD radio to get it).
Let’s start with the music. I’ve been listening for the past 20 minutes and this is what I’ve heard so far.
Cowboy Junkies covering Sweet Jane
Van Morrison live at the Bottom Line in 1970
Jack Johnson - Upside Down
B52s - Love Shack
Led Zepplin - Kashmir
more live Van Morrison
John Mayer
Talking Heads - Naive Melody (i love that song)
One cool thing is this station is going to play lots of their live archives:
Perhaps the most unique aspect of WNEW.com is our incredible audio archives, featuring historic concerts and live performances from the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s, as well as timeless interviews with a remarkable roster of rock immortals. We’ve gathered and digitized hundreds of amazing moments from the airwaves of some of America’s great rock radio stations, most notably our namesake WNEW-FM, which ruled the airwaves in New York City for four decades. On-air visits were commonplace by members of the Beatles, the Stones, Led Zeppelin, the Who, the Dead and virtually every superstar you could imagine.
I listen to radio on the internet all the time and am always looking for station that play a good variety of music, I am still trying to tune in to this station with no success.
So as excited as I am about the possibility of great radio - it remains hearsay to me. Maybe you will have better luck
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