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There hasn't been a single good album in the past 5 years!

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in fairness to the radio, I really love the low end of the dial... college radio, small non-profit stations, etc.

I hear a shitton of good music on the radio station out of Rutgers - New Brunswick and 91.1/WFMU out of Jersey City is pretty much my favorite station in the history of radio (though I don't get reception down here in South Jersey)
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFMU

Programming

WFMU's programming ranges from flat-out uncategorizable strangeness to rock and roll, lots of "alternative", psychedelia, experimental, obscure 50s-60s blues, unpopular jazz, R&B, soul, reggae, garage rock, hot-rod music, 78's, 8-tracks, twee, indie pop, schlock-a-billy, hip-hop, electronica, hand-cranked wax cylinders, punk rock, exotica, downtown art music, radio improvisation, cooking instructions, Old Noise, classic radio airchecks, found sound, comedy, call-in shows, anti-fascist lectures, off-kilter kids' music, interviews with obscure radio personalities, interviews with notable science-world luminaries, spoken word mish-mashes, Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtracks in languages other than English, Gospel and Country and western music. The station also hosts a "Listener Hour" every Saturday morning, where any WFMU listener can try their hand at DJ'ing live on the air.
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WFMU was named "Best Radio Station in the Country" by Rolling Stone magazine for four consecutive years (1991-1994), and has also been dubbed the best radio station in either NYC or the US by The Village Voice, New York Press, and CMJ, among others. The station also won three awards ("Best Specialty Programming", "Most Eclectic Programming", and "Music Director Most Likely To Never Sell Out") at the 2006 CMJ College Radio Awards.

A New York Times Magazine feature article called WFMU "a station whose name has become like a secret handshake among a certain tastemaking cognoscenti", and cites Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and playwright Eric Bogosian as avowed fans of the station.

Other notable fans and supporters of WFMU include Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum, Kurt Cobain[4], screenwriter/director Ethan Coen, MAKE magazine editor-in-chief and Boing Boing co-founder Mark Frauenfelder, Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant, musician Suzanne Vega, artist Cindy Sherman, indie rock superstar Ted Leo, Sonic Youth guitarists Lee Ranaldo[5] and Thurston Moore, comic book artist and writer Evan Dorkin, film director, producer and actor Kevin Smith, musician Moby, The Cars vocalist/record producer Ric Ocasek, musician Max Tundra, television talk-show host Conan O'Brien and Blixa Bargeld, singer of the German Band Einstürzende Neubauten.[6]
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they have archives of like everything ever on the internet and I still make a point of listening to Cherry Blossom Clinic every Saturday, but it's just not the same without it in my car.
 
The selection (or lack thereof) of music that gets played on the radio these days is nothing short of atrocious. I keep my sanity by not listening to the crap that's pumped over the airwaves, but instead listening to my personal music collection, which, by a long shot, is infinitely better.

I would say that there have been quite a few excellent albums that have come out in recent years... but unfortunately, none of it gets played on the radio. Here are some of my personal favorite albums of today:

"Red of Tooth and Claw" - Murder by Death
"The Weight Is a Gift" - Nada Surf
"Classics" - Ratatat
"The Question" - The Slackers
"Our Endless Numbered Days" - Iron & Wine
 
Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Originally posted by: Champ
no one plays good music anymore...Franz Ferdinand, The Bravery, Wolfmother
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The alternative station in Sacramento got axes a few weeks ago. Now, it is another "90's top hits" station.
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KWOD? Yeah, that sucked.
 
In no particular order:

Carrie Akre
Vienna Teng
Grant-Lee Phillips
Venus Hum
Decemberists

and Tori Amos is still sending interesting messages from her home on Planet Daffy
 
There are some bands out there that deserve more playing than they're getting, but they're not "good looking" enough to be popular. There's some bands that slip under the radar and get some airplay. Being a musician, I can tell right away if they have talent or not.

A couple of underrated performers right now are Jet and the White Stripes. These guys rock like nobody's business.
 
Trail of Dead - So Divided
Porcupine Tree - Blank Planet
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
The Plastic Constellations - We Appreciate You
Melvins - (A) Senile Animal
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Baroness - Red Album
Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One
Dr. Octagon - The Return of Dr. Octagon

Anyway, I could go on and on. There are a tonne of good albums that have been released in the past 5 years.

KT
 
Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: CKent
Originally posted by: buck
I feel sorry for the kids who have to listen to the shit on the radio today.
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Is anything I listed getting airtime? I haven't listened to the radio in about a decade, I'd have no idea if it was 😕
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There is the problem. New music doesn't get airtime because so many stations just replay Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and The Eagles over and over and over.
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the crime of stations oriented toward music of the 60's and 70's playing music from the 60's and 70's

anywyas around here we have somethign like 8 country stations, a classic rock station, a new rock/metal station, a generic top-40esque rock station, 2 pop stations, a dedicated classical station and npr, but i can never get npr to come in steadily
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: loki8481
Originally posted by: buck
I feel sorry for the kids who have to listen to the shit on the radio today.
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kids today don't listen to the radio
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I haven't listened to an AM/FM radio for more than 30 minutes total in the past 3 years.
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Without NPR I would never listen to the radio.
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I use last.fm to find new music.
From the last year I've been listening to a lot-

Sigur Ros- Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
I like the new Coldplay album but it's been over played
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Dig Lazurus Dig
Brian Eno & David Byrne:Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Girl Talk- Feed the Animals
Keane Perfect Symmetry
 
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