Monday, March 23, 2020

Now More Than Ever - Listen To/Watch Radio Studios Live & Recorded 23Mar20

With congregation ill-advised during C19 outbreaks, many will be wanting for live music. If the radio industry can keep it up - they've got a great format to solve our issues. As long as their engineers and hosts, and their guests can practice great aseptic behaviors and "socially distance" themselves from each other, then they'll deliver a great service through a fabulous infrastructure I've come to adore. Many of the best music radio studios in the US are public radio stations ~ so if you are so inclined, as with PBS, keep building. A few great ones like Paste and BBC are not public, per se, and they are insanely great too. There's of course national public radio, NPR - typically spectacular ~ especially Tiny Desk. It is easiest if stations publish on YouTube but not all do - some have alternative renderers that work within browsers. Here are my top live/recorded radio streams based on my assessment of quality of recordings and the capability of guests - no duh, biggest urban markets are the best. I do have CPR/Denver high as they publish local/Colorado band stuff. All are searchable and seemingly still being updated often. My links click through to the "top page," if I found it.
  1. KEXP - Seattle
  2. NPR Tiny Desk - Washington DC
  3. Paste - NYC
  4. BBC - London
  5.  WGBH - Boston
  6. CPR/Indie 102.3 - Denver
  7. WXPN - Philadelphia
  8. WFUV - FordamU/NYC

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