Here’s are some Sunday tweets from our 1,753 Radio Survivor Twitter feed followers. Over at Radio Valencia in San Francisco, deejay @maledor celebrated his birthday and 200th show with a guest, Ben from the Humboldt Psychedelic label, Captcha Records. Captcha has a free sampler, BTW. Around the same time G-Town Radio (the Sound from Germantown) […]
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A Glimpse at Community Radio in San Francisco
The Exploratorium, the long-time hands-on science museum in San Francisco, just put together a short documentary about the plethora of community radio stations in the city of San Francisco. It’s a fun look at four different stations and it made me anxious to plot out more radio station field trips. The community radio stations profiled […]
Pirate Radio Round-Up: Welsh nationalists were pirate pioneers; protest broadcasts in MN; more
It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed what’s news in pirate radio. Here’s what’s up, including: 22 year-old N. London pirate stays true to drum & bass; Welsh nationalists were pirate radio pioneers in 1959; protest broadcasts in Minnesota, and more. Quietus writer John Doran pays a visit to long-running North London pirate station Rude […]
The forgotten BBC radio history of Teddy Bear’s Picnic
The other day I looked up the history of the song “Teddy Bear’s Picnic” and found an interesting radio related connection. Apparently the formative 1932 recording made by BBC band leader Henry Hall offered such fine tonal quality that the Beeb used it for three decades to keep audio equipment up to speed. One BBC […]
Whistling Prince Albert at Radio Valencia
Two Sundays ago I was hanging out at free form radio station Radio Valencia in San Francisco, and in walked jazz singer/guitarist Meredith Axelrod. Axelrod spoke with the Gramophoney Baloney show’s DJ McShmormac, then schmoozed some more with DJ Ferrara and Malderor and Dr. Junk. Of course we all wanted Axelrod to sing. As a bonus, […]
Radio Valencia: inside the new Mission Street digs
As promised, San Francisco community based radio station radiovalencia.fm has moved from Chicken John’s Chez Poulet hangout on Cesar Chavez to a swell new third story studio operation at 2390 Mission Street “on the northwest corner of 20th St directly across from Bruno’s,” as the relocation announcement put it. I dropped by on Sunday to schmooze […]
Radio Valencia: we are two years old (and moving!)
Radio Valencia in San Francisco hit the terrible twos late last week. I wrote to John Hell, the community outlet’s co-founder, to get an update on the station’s plans. He sent me this commentary, which is published below in full. —Matthew Lasar On Saturday, August 11th Radio Valencia celebrated its 2nd anniversary. That went by […]
Radio greetings from the Valencia Street fair in San Francisco
I wandered about the “Sunday Streets” Valencia Street Fair in San Francisco yesterday, and quickly ran into the Radio Valencia booth, where those denizens of the FM deep were holding forth: Malderor and Dr. Junk (that’s Malderor on the left in the photo below; Dr. Junk on the right; Dr. Sleepless in the middle). Malderor and […]
My favorite Radio Valencia blogs
I’ve been listening to Radio Valencia of late. It operates out of the Mission District in San Francisco, broadcasts on an unlicensed basis at 87.9FM, and streams off the web or via your mobile device of choice. “We’re open to all kinds of experimentation and community building, and our doors are open to anyone who […]
SF Mayor Asks Radio Stations to Play “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” at Noon Today
I love San Francisco. Today, in honor of the 50th anniversary of Tony Bennett’s recording of the classic love song to the city of San Francisco, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has asked all San Francisco radio stations to play “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” at 12 noon. In addition to that, there […]