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• Beef Vegan Leaving KWSS for Tucson Radio Station KFMA

  Friday, August 26, 2016 at 4:03 a.m.

  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

  Friday, October 10, 2014 at 2:30 p.m.

  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

  Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 11:40 a.m.

  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

  Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 9 a.m.

  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

  Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 4 a.m.

  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?

  Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 7:45 a.m.

  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...