Radio

Phoenix Lifeguard-Diversity Program was "Mischaracterized" by City Employee, Says City

A week after being battered on the blogs for its lifeguard-diversity program, the city of Phoenix has responded by throwing one of its employees under the waterbus. Kelly Martinez, a recreation coordinator for Phoenix, "mischaracterized" the city program in a local National Public Radio report, say ... More >>

Andrew Jackson Jihad Song Closes Out New This American Life Episode

After the first Presidential debate this last Wednesday, much ado was made about Mitt Romney's gleeful pledge to stuff and baste Big Bird by cutting federal funding to PBS and other pinko commie media outlets. Phoenix folk-punk heroes Andrew Jackson Jihad are clearly fans of the monstrous alphabet ... More >>

Chasers Sold to New Owners and Becomes Pub Rock, A Music Venue With an In-House Radio Broadcasting Studio

See also: KUKQ Phoenix Launches Online; We Speak With Nancy Stevens, Craven Moorehead, and Jonathan LSome heavy-duty changes have been taking place behind the scenes at longtime local music venue Chasers over the past week. The dive-like Scottsdale rock bar, which has hosted big concerts and local s ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Radio Show and Its Potential Legal Problems

The most interesting item to drop from the lips of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce at Mesa's Red Mountain Tea Party meeting on Monday was not the fact that he's running for state Senate in Legislative District 25. Rather, it was something Pearce said to me as I buttonholed him ju ... More >>

KWSS' The Morning Infidelity Expands to Afternoon Show on Skapunkradio.com

​Since spiraling into the seemingly imminent demise of all Valley radio stations into a "classic" rock format, X103.9's trademark shows have had the choice to go extinct or find a new way to get the alt out. Former X103.9 DJ Craven Moorehead, who hosted the popular Ska Punk Show for nearly 15 ... More >>

SkaPunk Radio: Former X103.9 Program Now Online

​Last week, Valley alternative station X103.9 became My103.9, shifting its focus from alternative and punk to a "Gen X" format, with a playlist heavy on '80s hits and an open call for listeners to request songs. Dave Pratt Live, the divisive morning show that launched in August of 2011 was t ... More >>

Henry Rollins on Occupants, the Occupy Movement, and the Radio

​There aren't a lot of middle-of-the-roaders when it comes to Henry Rollins. You love him or you hate him, and he gives you plenty of chances to do either: He hosts a radio show on KCRW (doing remarkable things like following up a Curtis Mayfield cut with a jam by Japanese drone-rockers Boris ... More >>

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Arizona Music Historian Johhny D. Back on the FM Dial : "It's All About Freedom."

Johnny D​I'm embarrassed that I didn't get to this story sooner, but Arizona music historian John "Johnny D" Dixon is back on the FM dial. Mostly Vinyl with Johnny D aired it seventh show Sunday night, on indie station KWSS 106.7. The show runs for three hours, and during this previous Sunday nigh ... More >>

Audie Cornish, NPR Reporter Partly to Blame for Errant Gabrielle Giffords Death Report, Gets a Promotion

Falsely reporting a congresswoman's death is apparently a great way to move up in the world of journalism -- just ask NPR's Audie Cornish. ​Following the January 8 Tucson shooting rampage, during which Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot through the brain, her husband, astronaut Mark ... More >>

Christopher O'Riley on Ultimatums from Nuns, NPR, and the New Radiohead Album

​ Christopher O'Riley is a classical musician who creates piano arrangements of modern rock songs. He has released tributes to Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, and two Radiohead albums. His latest album, Out of my Hands, features the versions of songs by Nirvana, Portishead, Tears for Fears, The Sm ... More >>

Lessons in Congressional Morality -- Compliments of Christian Radio, Jon Hulburd and Ben Quayle

James KingBen Quayle​About a week ago, Democratic Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd made listening to Christian radio somewhat tolerable. He began running ads on Christian radio stations bashing his opponent, Republican Ben Quayle, for hit ties to "The Dirty" -- a Web site some argue has a (ahem ... More >>

J.D. Hayworth Calls on John McCain to Pull "Sheriffs" TV Ad Because Paul Babeu Appeared on Neo-Nazi Radio Show

​If we were running for political office and our chief opponent was airing a TV ad featuring someone who'd appeared on a neo-Nazi radio show, we'd say "go for it, pal!"The logic being: It will only hurt the oppoient's chances.But Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth, with the wording of his ... More >>

Indie Music Fans Beg for Some Play on Phoenix NPR Station KJZZ 91.5, Get Smackdown from Music Director

KJZZThis is the woman who doesn't want you to hear Animal Collective on the radio.​There's an interesting facebook battle shaping up over the future of Phoenix's NPR affiliate, KJZZ 91.5.The instigator is a guy named Greg Ensell who likes to listen to . . . well, umm, pretty much what I listen to: ... More >>

BBC 6 Music Radio Station To Be Canceled, David Bowie Speaks Out

Bowie doesn't like this. Not at all.​The BBC is going through a huge financial overhaul and will be redirecting tens of millions of pounds to produce better-quality programming. One of the changes involves shutting down BBC 6 Music, and according to Twenty Four Bit, people, including David Bowie, ... More >>

Radio Phoenix: Is Phoenix's Only Community Radio Station Tuning In or Fading Out?

Last month Neba, Underwater Getdown, Kinch, Black Carl, Kirkwood Dellinger, and Lisa Savidge all donated their time to the grassroots, DIY, volunteer-based, non-profit organization that is beginning to fill a void that Phoenicians so desperately crave. They call it Radio Phoenix, the only communit ... More >>

From the Top With Christopher O'Riley Live

Alan Cheuse

Tom Moon @ Changing Hands Bookstore

The Glass Menagerie

NPR personality presides over a cast of odd characters

The liberals' problem with Freedom of Speech: Why Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Michael Savage are correct on the Fairness Doctrine.

The Price of Payola

Someone's listening after all

Ms. Manager

A Phoenix power player

After Shock

Howard Stern's switch to satellite means a whole new world for Phoenix radio. And for me

We Be Buggin'

Frog One, Bugz in the Attic's Daz-I-Kue, and the scrumptious Sy Smith tear up the club at Mythos' Symposium

Straight Outta (Bill) Compton

Radio Free Phoenix takes the city's ghost radio to the next level

Radio Gaga

How to ride the airwaves

The Conservative Rap

Radio's Bruce St. James: hip-hop GOP?

BEST ROCK RADIO STATION

KCDX-FM 103.1

B.S. Enterprises

Former radio guy arrested for forgery – again

Sonic Bloom

Rick Bloom's got a mike, and "funny" has a whole new meaning

Out Foxed

Radio killed the liberal star. Now the lefties want their airtime back.

Ghost Radio

Who's behind Arizona's nonstop oddball rock time capsule?

TV on the Radio

Young Liars (Touch & Go)

Shortwaving Radio

Proposed legislation by the U.S. Senate aims to deter the spreading radio empire. Good luck.

To Err on Air

Letters from the week of October 24, 2002

Best Radio Station -- Alternative

www.knotradio.org

Radio Active

The Piersons' Patti Sedillo finds a kinder, gentler life on the AM airwaves

Dinero at $8

Valley radio station's low-cost money transfer service will benefit United Farm Workers

Shearer Delight

The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

Glass Ears

Radio Ga Ga

Once a week, skaters and fetishists take over the studio

Radio Daze

Three specialty shows are sneaking underground music on the Valley's moribund airwaves

Beware of the Dogma

When KFYI radio host John Dayl spews mindless hate, David Winkler listens

Howard's Blend

Stern shows off his Private Parts, and they're really quite nice

Stern und Drang

The King of All Media exposes his Private Parts

The Crenshaw Redemption

Marshall Crenshaw goes back to the drawing board and comes up with a shiny new Miracle of Science

The Real Alternative

A FAKE IN THE LIFEFOR DRAMA'S SAKE, NPR NEWS EMBELLISHES A PHOENIX POLICE DISPATCHER'S WORKDAY

THE BLUE BLUEGRASS OF HOME RALPH STANLEY PLAYS MUSIC CLOSE TO THE ROOTS HE NEVER LEFT