Subject: Radio

• More On-Air Al-Qaida

  Wonder how the KTLA weather team would have handled this story: according to a civil suit filed in Vista, a woman claims she was fired on the spot after her Irvine employer saw an Air America progressive radio bumper sticker on her car. The woman who was fired is the one bringing the suit, in case you're wondering. Linda Laroca says that on Oct. 8, three weeks after she started at Advantage Sales and Marketing, her manager, Beverly Fath, pointed to the bumper sticker and remarked that it promo

  March 12, 2006

• Notorious Pedophile Organized Youth Retreats in OC

  Earlier this week, National Public Radio aired a segment on Donald McGuire, a Jesuit who served as a spiritual director for Mother Teresa's religious order who just happened to molest boys. You know the rest of the story: ravaged kids, parental complaints ignored by diocesan and Jesuit officials, more rapes, lawsuits. But what hasn't been noted is that McGuire was a familiar face in Orange County for decades. The pedophile, described in a 1991 Orange County Register article as "feisty, blunt an

  November 1, 2007

• KCRW, Now with Even More User-friendliness

  Extraordinarily popular Santa Monica-based radio station KCRW 89.9 FM is introducing a new cutting-edge media player that, its publicist claims, “will empower online listeners to make KCRW their own.” (Does that mean we have to make the coffee, too?) KCRW’s Director of New Media, Anil Dewan, explains that “The player allows [listeners] to access playlists, subscribe to podcasts, embed content on blogs, buy a CD from an artist or a book of the author being interviewed, and share links

  January 31, 2008

• XM Merges With Sirius

  Earlier today, the Justice Department approved Sirius Satellite Radio's proposed $4.59 billion (!) aquisition of satellite old-schooler XM Satellite Radio. This decision created one single US satellite radio provider. In response to questions fearing a monopoly, the Justice Dept. said " the combined company won't be able to raise prices profitably because of competition from such forms of audio entertainment as broadcast radio and MP3 players." Read the rest of the article here.

  March 24, 2008

• Eric J. Lawrence Interview: Director’s Cut

  The Fall: Lawrence's—and John Peel's—favorite band. In this week’s Sprawl of Sound, I feature KCRW DJ/librarian Eric J. Lawrence. As is often the case, there was not enough space in the print version of the paper to run the entire interview. However, I think that this one is interesting enough to publish in full on the generous expanses of the intraweb. So here it is, Q&A-style. What are your criteria for determining what you play on any given show? Do you strive for a balance of old

  April 4, 2008

• What's Humming Through the Skulls of Orange County?

  June 8, 2000

• A League of His Own

  December 5, 2002

• Vanishing River Songs

  February 27, 2003

• Indie 103.1 Goes Off The Airwaves, Lives On Online

  Edit: As you can see, the shock of this news has affected more than one of us here on staff...Acclaimed LA/OC radio station Indie 103.1--which attracted nationwide attention due to their deep playlists and unconventional specialty shows in the face of increasingly uniform FM radio formats--is abandoning terrestrial radio today, in favor of broadcasting solely online.A statement on their official site says, "Indie 103.1 was recently faced with only one option --- to play the corporate radio game"

  January 15, 2009

• 100.3 The Sound Responds to Indie 103.1's Departure

  People from all over are reacting to the departure of Indie 103.1 from southern California airwaves, including the folks over at Bonneville-owned, LA-based triple-A station 100.3 The Sound, who sent these words over from their general manager and program director:"We have always had respect for Indie's stance on music and the overall independent feel of the radio station. In a sense we too have tried to foster that spirit of independence at "The Sound" by playing a wide diverse musical playlist

  January 15, 2009

• A sad day for radio: The demise of 97.1 KLSX

  By now I'm sure most talk radio lovers have already got their big box of Kleenex handy. In what may be one of the most tragic losses in FM history, our beloved stable of KLSX jocks will be officially out of a job at 5 p.m. The owners of CBS radio have chosen to dissolve the hit L.A. radio station in favor of a "360 degree audio and visual experience" known as AMP radio. Great, more top 40 slop. After 13 years of broadcasting the only FM talk station in town, it appears that we're all just going

  February 20, 2009

• Gay-Bashing, Jew-Trashing La Voz de Aztlan Rushes to Defend Anti-Semitic KPFK Show

  Mere moments after the Jewish Journal published an éxposé of the anti-Semitic KPFK-FM 90.7 show "La Causa," the Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate website La Voz de Aztlán rushed to the defense of the only publicly broadcast radio show in the United States that has ever considered it anything other than a embarrassment. "Pro-Israel Jews attack a popular Los Angeles Chicano radio program," screamed the headline, and writer "Ernesto Cienfuegos" (really La Voz publisher Hector Carreon,

  March 20, 2009

• Moyers Picks Brain of Last Socialist (and Weekly Pal)

  Saturday Night Live had this skit years ago where they presented a Fugitivesque TV show called The Last Liberal. With all the talk on Fox News and conservative talk radio about the rise of Socialism in Obamerica, Bill Moyers decided to go out and find The Last Socialist to get the other side of the story. It turns out the subject of the host's recent Bill Moyers Journal interview is an old pal of the Weekly to boot!Moyers jokes that when it came to locating a socialist, his show "consulted the E

  March 23, 2009

• [Sound Guy] KOCI-FM Brings Low Powered Radio to the People

  February 5, 2009

• [CD Review] Various Artists, 'Free Yr Radio' (insound.com)

  February 5, 2009

• Sound Salvation

  November 13, 2008

• Hole Lotta Love

  September 4, 2008

• [Aural Reports] KUCI DJ Belle Otero Warms to Freeform

  February 21, 2008

• Earth Angel

  September 7, 2006

• Royalty Pains and Net Prophets

  As online radio faces possible financial doom, Pandora thinks outside the box

  June 21, 2007

• You're On With Jesus

  Neil Saavedra brings God down to Earth

  March 22, 2007

• Hall of Records

  Kyle Olson, Music Director, KUCI-FM 88.9

  January 18, 2007

• The Year in Pretending to Break Stories

  The OC Registers New Motto: You didnt read it here first

  December 28, 2006

• Dopey and Sleepy

  October 5, 2006

• Watch With Your Ears

  TV on the Radio

  September 21, 2006

• Garbage a Go-Go

  May 4, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 16, 2006

• Aural Reports

  February 9, 2006

• Aural Reports

  January 12, 2006

• Wanted: The Next Interpol

  November 3, 2005

• Why Does Daystar Hate Jesus?

  The religious broadcaster fighting for KOCE is already under federal investigation for abuse of the airwaves

  July 14, 2005

• Stuck In Dramaramaland

  April 1, 2004

• That Voice Goes Silent:

  March 25, 2004

• Rally Round the Racist

  March 4, 2004

• Stuck in Thee Garage

  January 22, 2004

• Radio-Free Little Saigon

  January 15, 2004

• Fence Offense!

  September 11, 2003

• Sound Salvation

  May 22, 2003

• Organic Culture

  May 15, 2003

• A Rivers Runs Through It

  February 6, 2003

• The Egil Has Landed

  November 28, 2002

• Radio Ga-Ga

  May 16, 2002

• Sound Salvation

  March 14, 2002

• The Other

  August 30, 2001

• New Music

  July 5, 2001

• Microphone Maestro

  November 16, 2000

• Bunny Moseley of the Moseleys

  January 13, 2000

• (One Day Ago) Live from Coachella: Day Two Pictures!

  Thank goodness for Beth Stirnaman. If not for her, our Coachella coverage would consist of my blah blahing and iPhone pictures of stages from the crowd, many yards away. Thankfully, she's got a bundle of great images from day two here, so you can put a face to my inspid ramblings. Remember me raving about  TV on the Radio doing songs like "Wolf Like Me"? Well, there's a bunch of TV on the Radio pictures, including this one here of fetching frontman Tunde Adebimpe. She also got Calexico, Fle

  April 19, 2009

• Tuna Does Vegas

  April 30, 2009

• Rev. Wiley Drake Leads List of OC's July 4 Teabaggers

  Just call him Rev. TeabaggerThe Rev. Wiley Drake, last heard from praying for President Barack Obama's death, leads the list of Orange Countains who have stepped up to lead the "Official Tax Day TEA Party" in their communities on July 4.TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already, by the way. Besides the controversial pastor at First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, teabaggers and the towns they represent include: Greyson Peltier, Aliso Viejo; Roberto Guererro, also Buena Park; Barbara Smyth, Dana

  June 15, 2009