Sirius Radio - Besides Stern

I've never listened to XM so I can't compare the two programming-wise. However, since Sirius is an independant company and XM has Clear-Channel ties I have to say you are wrong, Jimmy.

C: Underground Garage (esp. Andrew Loog Oldham), Left of Center (although they jump on way too many major-label bandwagons, e.g. She Wants Revenge), Vin Scelsa (on Disorder)

still thinking about it: Disorder (good free-form radio is actually pretty difficult; these folks drive right into all the potholes that you'd expect 'em to)

D: Classic Vinyl/Classic Rewind, Spectrum

I also should try to tune in for Bam's show but the one time I stopped on the Faction channel and heard Korn, I was done.

On the non-built in receivers, you turn into an empty channel to listen (like with your iTrip). So proxmity to someone else doing so can give you a free listen. If it's on the house and I get in the car I can still pick it up for awhile.

There was a story recently how sirius channels were bleeding over into low-on-the band stations, which are usually christian or public radio. funny.

Also, i do have XM, but I live in Portland now, so I miss the CBC2/CBC3 reception I had in michigan.

On Sirius, I like the Young Turks on the liberal talk station.
I think most of the music stations are good to at least hit or miss. Though aside from Flipper's "Sex Bomb" being in regular rotation on one of the alternative stations, the playlists are pretty predictible, at least for music nerdz. The classic hip hop station (I think it's #43) is probably the one I can listen to for the longest stretch before needing to change the station.

Chaki, yes, the Canadian stations are decent. The Vault is OK but listening to it really drives home the point about how small the playlists are on commercial classic rock stations.

ALSO THE FRED SCHNIDER SHOW ROOLZ AND SO DOES THE PROG SHOW AND THE GOTH SHOW HOSTED BY FREDDIE SNAKESKIN

The talk channels have commercials but not the music. This really pissed me off with stern since I'm already fucking paying to hear him, why commercials too.

Beth, in post-2000 Bocephus is good old country. ;)

They actually DID play a decent song of his. He started out half-okay. Was it that rock-climbing accident when he scraped off his face and perforated his brain that marked a falling-off point? (I forget the exact injuries, but they were something along that line)

hahaha.

Disclaimer: the station I dj on is at 88.1FM and we've been getting listener complaints about Sirius constantly interrupting people's signals. I feel sorry for any of our listeners who work near a major commuter artery.

The Boston Globe wrote us with the same POV, that the station was somehow to blame for poor Sirius reception. We wrote back with our perspective on the situation, AFAIK an article was never written about it.

Sorry, sore spot with me. If I had a show on Sirius I'd probably take the other POV of course. :)

poly, do you mean you heard "Bleep Yo Couch"?

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.