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You made my day *fish. Slacker.com is awesome! I always feel stupid when I haven't discovered stuff like this. ;)

Joe

I barely ever listen to "commercial radio" in the car. I can barely stand the music they play and the commercials make me want to puke. :sick: So in the car, it's my disc changer or NPR (104.1, Michigan Radio out of Ann Arbor - GRDad, I laughed out loud when I read "Christian station?"). Tonight driving home though, I thought I'd check out the new 96.1 and they were playing Counting Crows. Wow! They're so "alternative"! I won't have to check that station out ever again!

During the day at work I'm tuned into slacker.com. Those of you who are into pandora should check it out. I started out with Pandora and over time I've migrated over to slacker. Good new music on their alternative stations - stuff like Ryan Adams, Andrew Bird, Arcade Fire, Feist, VHS or Beta...and on and on!

*fish

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As a Detroit-area transplant, I am continually mystified that there is no good R&B/hip-hop station at all! I'm used to having a few choices, and now there is nothing. Is there a reason for the complete lack of an R&B/hip-hop station in GR? I find it hard to believe no one listens to that genre of music. I like all kinds of music, and WYCE and NPR are definitely my default stations, but it's so sad I can't get a R&B/hip-hop 'fix' every once in awhile.

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As a Detroit-area transplant, I am continually mystified that there is no good R&B/hip-hop station at all! I'm used to having a few choices, and now there is nothing. Is there a reason for the complete lack of an R&B/hip-hop station in GR? I find it hard to believe no one listens to that genre of music. I like all kinds of music, and WYCE and NPR are definitely my default stations, but it's so sad I can't get a R&B/hip-hop 'fix' every once in awhile.
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As a Detroit-area transplant, I am continually mystified that there is no good R&B/hip-hop station at all! I'm used to having a few choices, and now there is nothing. Is there a reason for the complete lack of an R&B/hip-hop station in GR? I find it hard to believe no one listens to that genre of music. I like all kinds of music, and WYCE and NPR are definitely my default stations, but it's so sad I can't get a R&B/hip-hop 'fix' every once in awhile.
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WGRD has some real issues with their play selection. In any given hour, you're going to hear Finger Eleven, Fuel, Nickelback (wtf?) and Pop Evil. They have a commercial that says something like, "Our corporate office sent us a list of songs to play, and we're playing this instead!" I think they're playing the list corporate sent them six months ago, because they haven't added anything new in that time. GRD is virtually indistinguishable today from a year ago, which is sad because there's a lot of great "alternative" music out there that people just aren't hearing.

The new 96 X station is better than GRD... I can't say I liked the few days of dead air clock-ticking they had before the changeover, but they're playing a lot, lot of stuff that I haven't heard around here in a while, and that's good.

Whoever said that WYCE is too ecclectic was right. GVSU has a student-run station called the Whale (www.thewhale.org) that you can tune into online, but I've never been able to get it off campus.

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As a Detroit-area transplant, I am continually mystified that there is no good R&B/hip-hop station at all! I'm used to having a few choices, and now there is nothing. Is there a reason for the complete lack of an R&B/hip-hop station in GR? I find it hard to believe no one listens to that genre of music. I like all kinds of music, and WYCE and NPR are definitely my default stations, but it's so sad I can't get a R&B/hip-hop 'fix' every once in awhile.
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