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[rts] Jonc's 2012 Music List
Dec. 23rd, 2012 08:17 pmI know y'all have been waiting for this, and to be honest, I'm actually a bit early with it! Usually I wait until the very last week of the year before I build up this list, just for completeness' sake, but I figured it's safe enough to put out the list right about the same time everyone else is.
This has been quite an interesting year musically...this was the year in which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emmalyon and I continued to listen to a lot of bands on the Sirius alternative rock stations on the upper end of our TV dial, but we also found AOL's Spinner, which features a good dozen or so new albums every week that you can stream. From about June on, I picked up a hell of a lot of new music that I hadn't heard anywhere else--not on the radio and not on satellite stations either, and I was rarely let down. There's a lot of new stuff hiding out there that's worth checking out, and I believe that in the next year or so we'll be seeing a change in playlists because of it.
The year has definitely been one of change, of endings and beginnings. In the early summer we saw the demise of WFNX, a Boston radio station that had been around since 1983, and was New England's answer to KROQ in LA--it was the only station out there, for the longest time, that played alternative music early on, and also featured local music in its regular rotation rather than just on specialty shows. Three of its best-known DJs--Henry Santoro, Julie Kramer and Adam 12, as well as the stations music director Paul Driscoll, stayed until the bitter end...and resurrected the airwaves digitally at Radio Boston.com, where they're still going and getting stronger. Again, a lot of changes in the air, but I'm sensing a move out of stasis and towards the positive.
This past year has been memorable musically for me, probably one of the best years in the past decade, and I'm looking forward to more.
SO! Without further ado...
( All kinds of tunage and linky goodness below this here cut )
Catch you on the flip side, kids!
This has been quite an interesting year musically...this was the year in which
emmalyon and I continued to listen to a lot of bands on the Sirius alternative rock stations on the upper end of our TV dial, but we also found AOL's Spinner, which features a good dozen or so new albums every week that you can stream. From about June on, I picked up a hell of a lot of new music that I hadn't heard anywhere else--not on the radio and not on satellite stations either, and I was rarely let down. There's a lot of new stuff hiding out there that's worth checking out, and I believe that in the next year or so we'll be seeing a change in playlists because of it.The year has definitely been one of change, of endings and beginnings. In the early summer we saw the demise of WFNX, a Boston radio station that had been around since 1983, and was New England's answer to KROQ in LA--it was the only station out there, for the longest time, that played alternative music early on, and also featured local music in its regular rotation rather than just on specialty shows. Three of its best-known DJs--Henry Santoro, Julie Kramer and Adam 12, as well as the stations music director Paul Driscoll, stayed until the bitter end...and resurrected the airwaves digitally at Radio Boston.com, where they're still going and getting stronger. Again, a lot of changes in the air, but I'm sensing a move out of stasis and towards the positive.
This past year has been memorable musically for me, probably one of the best years in the past decade, and I'm looking forward to more.
SO! Without further ado...
( All kinds of tunage and linky goodness below this here cut )
Catch you on the flip side, kids!
