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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: XM Question |
| Date | Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:46:41 -0400 |
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From: "Chip Bell" <cbell10@columbus.rr.com>
>I listen a lot to 52 - The Verge. They play "New, emerging and
>recently
> discovered Canadian rock artists" A good place to hear The New
> Pornographers, Sloan, Tegan and Sara, and The Arcade Fire.
Enthusiastic seconds on The Verge: I'm constantly discovering great
new indie stuff on there. Other favorites in regular rotation include
Magneta Lane, Controller.Controller, the Organ, Cinderpop, most of the
bands in the Broken Social Scene orbit (including Jason Collett, and
also Emily Haines' utterly fantastic new solo album), Sam Roberts, the
Weakerthans, etc.
> Lucy 54, Ethel-47 and Fred-44 all play alternative music. I tend to
> spend
> more time on Fred than the other 2.
We have an XM receiver in our bedroom, which is almost always tuned
either to Fred (imagine the best '80s college station ever) or ESPN
Radio so I can listen to Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann in the
afternoons. We're members of a car-share service, Zipcar, that has XM
in all its cars. I'm usually tuned to The Verge in the car, or Soul
Street (#60, vintage '50s/'70s soul and R&B), or the surprisingly
solid '60s station at #6. The jazz channels could use some more
variety, but there's a solid bluegrass/trad folk station, BBC World
Service and a pretty good downtempo/abstract electronica channel
called XM Chill that I'm fond of.
Spin the dial and explore. XM's good for that.
S
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