With all due respect to ruffianbandwidth
the University of Minnesota's Radio K is the classic model of the college alternative radio station The Current wishes it could be. (I still dig Mac Wilson's show tho). the Twin Cities is lucky enough to maintain more than one very cool radio station.
Radio K plays new bands who sometimes sound like old bands. An actual eclectic mix of genres. Random metal every now and again. College kids who, all these years later, keep spinning Jeff Buckley.
I'm always shazaming this station. It gives me hope that indie music still has a future.
My favorite thing is listening to the dj reading the top 5 songs of the week and feeling old because I have never heard of any of the bands but they all have hilarious names and song titles.
My other favorite thing is when a 20 year old dj plays Texas is the Reason followed by Braid in the middle of a "classic 00s emo" set.
Mar 23, 2024
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You might be 28 but the kids in college are still 20 and through college radio you can pretend that youβre still hip and with the new music. Also sometimes the DJs are clearly high out of their mind and talk about nothing for 7 minutes straight and it rocks. Radio K in Minneapolis is the best and you can listen to it online.
Jan 31, 2024
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I don't know if this technically fits the criteria you're looking for, but they're a great local radio station in the Twin Cities with some real awesome programming. It was originally college owned, then became the first fully listener-supported radio station in the US during the1920s, and was then eventually sold to MPR.
Mar 23, 2024
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I'm not talking about your local NPR affiliate, I mean the low frequency weirdo station playing ethiopian jazz, arabic synthpop, bootleg covers of motown classics sung in Spanish, and skateboarding music (whatever that is). My local station is KUAA 99.9FM, you can listen online! I also love CHIRP (Chicago), KMHD (Portland jazz station), and KXLU (Los Angeles).
Sounds good, feels good, no annoying commercials, and- best of all- it's not spotify.
Jun 2, 2025
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everyone can wait until it's my time to check the app. if we're friends, you can text.
Call it childfree elder millennial privilege. nothing an app can say to me -- work apps included -- is all that important. Nothing deserves immediate response.
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