No wrong answer, really, but to my mind the aforementioned artists where conceived either before the "alternative" label and/or just don't fit with what I see it as. I see it more as a marketing label for what was music that had a broad appeal, but was a little grittier and harder than the prevailing sounds that came before it (hair metal and other less edgy styles) so that it was an "alternative" to that. Artists that were a little quirkier than what was then on mainstream radio, but weren't the kind of heavy, stadium type rock of the grunge bands and stuff like Primus were considered more "indie rock" or "college radio" type music. I think of the idea of "alternative" as something that had its roots in agressive punk rock sounds, but was more palatable to a mainstream audience. I see it as a kind of commercialized version of the heavier, more underground music that came before it.
USC has two "college" radio stations: KUSC, which is the university run, classical music station. KXSC (formerly KSCR) is the student run radio station -- on AM.
But USC also owns has the FM license for KXSC in the SF Bay Area, and runs it as a classic music station -- simulcast with KDFC, which I guess USC also owns. /shrug
Thank Bill Clinton and Congress for the 1994 Telecommunications Act. It destroyed FM radio and blew up the music industry.
well go figure, i thought the only thing he messed up in office was a dress.
The Orlando station wasn't Wjrr, it was WORJ, out of Mt Dora. It was a really good station.
Yeah, the Station I listened to which Covered central Florida and the Space Coast was WORJ, they would play entire albums, and prior to playing them they would give you the titles and the time of the tracks, it was for those with good RTR's so you could tape them. They didn't have any hyped-up advertising, and very few commercials. They sounded more like the old PBS stations of the past which play hours of classical music at a time. Now they just play slanted news programs.
yeah, wjrr was out of cocoa beach. guess i was confused because wdiz was orlando and they merged.
I didn't realize that. KXSC must be too weak of signal to pick up from where I'm at, because I don't think I heard it when I scanned through the AM dial not that long ago just for the hell of it (something I rarely do). I'm guessing they probably stream though like the other hard to receive local college stations I've gotten that way.
