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By Cliff Hicks
Staff Reporter
CD player on the fritz again? Left your
tapes in your hot car long enough until they’ve all
melted enough to sound like “The Best of Queen?”
There’s always radio.
Depending on what you like to listen to,
there’s something on the airwaves that should sate
your appetite, no matter what your thing is —
“alternative,” real alternative, bubblegum pop,
country or whatever else.
90.3 KRNU is a game of Russian
Roulette. The campus-based radio station can play
whatever they want, so you’ll find anything from
dream pop to techno to chant music to jazz to old
rock. It’s hard to find a station where the Rolling
Stones, Louis Armstrong and Nine Inch Nails can
all share an hour, but KRNU may just pull it off. A
lot of times you may need to
101.9 The Edge is the mainstream alterna
tive. Whatever is going around as popular for the
older crowd, this is where you’ll find it. The
Chemical Brothers, Depeche Mode, Sublime, Nine
Inch Nails, Bush — contemporary rock, as they call
it. At one time they were only playing the harder
edge stuff (and they still won’t play the real poppy
stuff), but they’ve loosened up a bit so you can
catch some lighter stuff too. They also typically
have the local shock-rock jocks. Many of them will
do whatever it takes to get your attention.
92.9 The Eagle plays the more classic
rock. Led Zepplin, Blue Oyster Cult, The Eagles,
Rolling Stones — it’s seventies stuff, for the most
part. The DJ’s here aren’t as loud-mouthed as on
other radio stations and the focus is on the music. If
you were listening to the “Dazed and Confused”
soundtrack over and over again, here you’ll find
your home.
98.5 Sweet 98 is bubblegum to the point of
sticking to your teeth. The majority of its listeners
have to have an adult sitting in the passenger seat
when they drive. The Spice Girls are played once an
hour or so. This is the kind of station that plays the
Billboard music chart in its entirity. It’s pop music
uncut.
95.1 KNET plays lighter “alternative”
rock, or “adult rock” as they call it. A good dosage
of eighties mixed in with some ninties. Culture
Club, Donna Lewis, Duran Duran — that type of
music.
102.7 KFRX walks along the same road
for the most part. You get the lighter side of alterna
tive here also. Jewel, Counting Crows, Toad the Wet
Sprocket, The Verve Pipe — none of the hard-edge
stuff, really, just the lighter side. U2 is about as hard
rock as they get.
106.3 The Blaze plays rock is its older
form. The Cult, Van Halen, Judas Priest,
Queensryche — the more classic type of rock, plus
the hard edge of the modern stuff — Local H,
Smashing Pumpkins and the like. It’s the type of
station where you might think a lot of listeners have
their leather jackets on with a ton of chains hanging
from it.
98.1 Froggy is the one-stop country super
stop. From Shania Twain to Blackhawk, if country’s
your thing, chances are Froggy will be your station.
So you have your choices when it comes to
music if you want to turn on, tune in and drop out —
pick that station that suits your fancy and hang for a
while.
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