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Tiny Desert, Big State: A KJZZ Concert Series Lures Arizona Bands Out Into the Wild

By Jason Keil
Mar 5, 2020

Tiny Desert Concerts make public radio sound good.
Beef Vegan Leaving KWSS for Tucson Radio Station KFMA

By David Accomazzo
Aug 26, 2016

A longtime voice of and advocate for the local music scene, KWSS morning show host Brad Pfirrman, a.k.a. Beef Vegan, is leaving local airwaves. Friday morning, August 25, will be his final show. "It's bittersweet," Pfirrman says. "But I'm excited to start this new chapter in my life." For almost...
KUKQ Is Dead (Yet Again) as Both Its Internet and Terrestrial Radio Revivals Are Off the Air

By Benjamin Leatherman
Oct 10, 2014

Stop us if you've heard this one before: KUKQ is dead and its demise is due, in part, to the influence of a bigger and more powerful local alternative radio station. No, this is not a rerun from the mid-1990s. And by the way, we're referring to both KUKQs --...
KDKB Switches Formats to Alternative Rock

By Benjamin Leatherman
Sep 17, 2014

If you tune into KDKB right now -- 93.3 on your FM dial -- you'll hear something a bit different from the classic/hard rock station's usual offerings of Ozzy, Metallica, Judas Priest, or AC/DC. At this exact moment, the local radio institution is broadcasting nothing but wall-to-wall Richard Cheese, including...
Alternative Station KWSS to Switch Frequencies, Moving From 106.7 to 93.9

By Jason P. Woodbury
Feb 13, 2013

Local low-power alternative station KWSS has announced that it's moving to a new home on the FM dial, shifting from 106.7 to 93.9 on Sunday, March 10. Home to shows like TMI (which I call into once a week to discuss music news and play selections), Mostly Vinyl with Johnny...
ASU Radio Program The Basement Celebrates 30 Years of The Blaze 1330 AM With Ladylike

By Anthony Sandoval
Oct 25, 2012

A couple of cool things made their way onto the planet in 1982. USA Today went into circulation, the first permanent artificial heart began beating, Michael Jackson dropped Thriller, and Arizona State University's student radio station went live. The Blaze 1330 AM celebrated its 30th birthday last week, and to...
Can KWSS' Beef Vegan Bring Rock 'n' Roll to the West Valley?

By Anthony Sandoval
Sep 6, 2012

You don't need us to remind you that the Valley is a massive piece of land. Phoenix alone is a whopping 517 square miles, according to Wikipedia (which is never wrong, right?). That dwarfs metropolises such as Chicago (234 square miles) and Seattle (142 square miles). Even Los Angeles is...
Westley Allen of Erratic! Radio on Three Years of Punk Rock Madness on the Air

By Jason P. Woodbury
Aug 23, 2012

See also: Best Rock Radio Personality, 2011: Westley Allen See also: Erratic! Radio Discusses Yus, Eastside Jets, and Muddy Moneys With Up on the Sun See also: Review: Plainfield Butchers, Hard to Be HumanWestley Allen, Phoenix punk rock DJ, bartender, guitarist, and host of KWSS 106.7 FM's Tuesday night punk/noise/shoegaze/whatever...
Tim and Willy Let Go From KMLE; Danny Zelisko Presents Dropped By KDKB

By Jason P. Woodbury
Jul 26, 2012

See also: Dave Pratt's Out, MasterChef Contestant Monti Carlo Is In at 103.9, Plus More Radio News It's been a strange week in Valley radio: On Sunday, July 22, KDKB-FM (93.3) personality and local concert promoter Danny Zelisko announced that his program, The Danny Zelisko Presents radio program (also known...
Underground Hip-Hop Program The Pulse on Power 98.3 To Air Last Show in Phoenix Tonight

By Anthony Sandoval
Jul 13, 2012

See also: The Pulse on Power 98.3: Broadcasting Underground Hip-Hop to The Valley (Video) See also: Dave Pratt's Out, MasterChef Contestant Monti Carlo Is In at 103.9, Plus More Radio News They say bad things come in threes. First Steve Nash decides to bolt from the Phoenix Suns (although, it's...
Dave Pratt's Out, MasterChef Contestant Monti Carlo Is In at 103.9, Plus More Radio News

By Christina Caldwell
Jun 21, 2012

Welcome to Radio Roundup, a new series in which we'll occasionally check in with the ever-shifting world of the Phoenix radio (FM, AM, Internet). Read on for June's news regarding changes at My Phoenix Music 1039 (goodbye, Dave Pratt; hello, Monti Carlo), Magic City Radio on Power 98.3, and why...

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