Sirius Radio - Besides Stern

Yeah, fair enough.

The rock stations all suck. The 'punk' channel is non-stop awful pop-punk and ska-punk, faux-college radio station is as bad as you might expect a CC-affiliated college radio station to be, and the rest are just uninteresting.

I don't know which I'd buy if I was getting it for my truck. Sirius sounds like the better choice for music, but that baseball package would be key on road trips.

If people are complaining that noncom radio interferes with their satellite reception, all they need to do is go to a car audio store (or maybe contact their sat radio unit manufacturer) and get a small switch box that will kill the external FM antenna when the sat radio receiver is powered on. This is pretty much required for car sat radio listening in areas with a lot of noncom stations.

It *doesn't* address the noncom listeners' occasionally getting interrupted by passing sat radio FM modulators. This was essentially the issue that kept XM/Sirius out of Canada until very recently.

Also, i mainly listen to XMPR whilst commuting now, for Bob Edwards' show in the morning(tho he's been talking to a disturbing preponderance of folkies lately) to Open Source on the way home.

The chill out station is rather broad - I've heard Boards of Canada and Isolee as much as Air and Zero 7.

I pretty much only stream Sirius here at my desk and in the kitchen over the laptop when I'm cooking. I bought my boyfriend a car stereo receiver and a portable he listens to in his office. I'm actually surprised I'm able to stream off the same account while he's listening on a receiver in his office. nice though.

Date: Saturday, February 16
Channel: Pure Jazz/72
Event: Guest DJ Donald Fagen of Steely Dan
Time: 10 pm ET

Tonight we turn the Pure Jazz controls over to Donald Fagen. A jazz fan since his early days of sneaking into the Village Vanguard, Fagen puts on his late-night-jazz-DJ hat and spins the records that have meant the most to him as a musician and a fan.

An independent station
WJAZ
With jazz and conversation
From the foot of Mt. Belzoni
Sweet music
Tonight the night is mine
Late line 'til the sun comes through the skylight

The chord change before that leads into that last line gets me every time.

Or whatever I meant to say. You get the idea...

Nah, fuck me. What it boils down to is the great part in the middle of that last line...around the part where the background singers break into the "till the sun comes through" part...

Basically, that entire chorus is some great mu-chord orgy, I'm thinking, anyhow...

I haven't turned on my Sirius receiver in a while, but that show Rude Jude did on Shade 45 was fuckin great.

o man I want donald fagen's playlist. Do they put them on a site?

I don't know where to put this so I'm putting it here:

http://pando.com/2014/11/25/why-sonys-deal-to-collect-royalties-directly-from-siriusxm-could-be-terrible-news-for-musicians/

how is sirius xm these days

i like it a lot! its def for boomers. theres "extra" channels now for deeper cuts. the prince channel is cool. but when you listen to the same stations you do start to hear the same shit after a while. dr laura is good for road trips.

Free through June 5! I love 50s music, but their 50s channel is remarkably lacking in rock, rockabilly, jump blues, doo wop etc., and heavy on Perry Como, Patti Page, Mitch Miller, and novelty hits like “The Chipmunk Song” and “Purple People Eater.” And songs I heard this morning were repeated this evening.

As Kurt says above, the deep cuts channels (mostly streaming-only off of the app) are pretty good, Indie 1.0 ('80s-'90s 'college radio' rock) and First Wave Deep Cuts especially. Still surprised after all these years they've never tried a dedicated prog channel, even on the app.

re: my comments above from '06: most car manufacturers aren't even bothering to put SXM transponders in these days as everyone just runs through their phone. SXM will definitely play ball with you on any renewal agreement, so by all means don't pay list price; call 'em up and see what deal du jour (or probably deal du individual sales rep) they're offering.