Favorite Internet Radio Stations

What are your favorite internet radio stations and why?

Beatles Radio from Los Angeles plays Beatles related songs 24 hours a day.

Nice.

 

myradiostream.com/wmtc

Nice live show DJ'd from vinyl almost every Friday night, good variety. Automated 24/7 when there's no live DJ in studio...

 

I don't like stations with such narrow playlists

 

I've been listening to this internet station called SCR Transistor Oldies that only plays music that was on the charts at this precise time of the year in time sweeps from the early 50's up to the late-80's or so. They do a weekend countdown show too. Pretty good -- but AM radio hits only with some nice surprises here and there.

 

105 Classics. They play a nice mix of everything.
Ascolta 105 Classics su Radio 105

 

Haven't listened to internet radio for a long time but when I was in my teens there was a KISS/Alice Cooper station I would listen to regularly.

 

Radio Paradise

 

KVKVI Flashback Favourites.

 

Midnight Cafe Radio

 

I miss running my old online station. For five years, it was all about music discovery for conseervative listeners who didn't even know they were burned-out on Adult Contemporary radio: a "de-programmer" station for office drone listening, if you will.

I probably spent about as much time combing the world for relatively-under-exposed tracks as much as I did editing music logs that fit the contours of older listeners who would find softer, unfamiliar-but-accessible music compelling. While the rest of the world tried to impress "experts" and hip listeners with cutting-edge, challenging, attitude-driven "music you're supposed to know if you're cool", I focused on getting novice explorers comfortable with folk, electronica, bluegrass, chill, foreign pop, and other styles that didn't really seem to go together on paper. I actually had to create categories of familiar and semi-familiar titles that could give a listener some semblence of vague recognizability, without tipping them off who the format was really for. You don't run into very many stations that mix "experimental" and "comfort zone" in their mission statements.

At peak, I was exposing audiences to "no more than" a 1,500-song palette any given day, and for all they knew I could have been broadcasting from planet Mars. But much cooler, and less swagger than your local college station.

 

I literally listen to Groove Salad (downtempo ambient electronic chill by Soma.FM) about 8 hours a day, as I have it streaming all day at work. Often I also put it on at home. Highly recommended!! They have a great app as well.

 

Oh boy do I ever miss Technicolor Web Of Sound. Which was a 1960s centric show streamed out of a Wisconsin basement.

But Beyond The Beat Generation is as close to it as we are ever likely to get.
http://www.beyondthebeatgeneration.com/
I've listened to this for hours and hours, and days on end, and it never ceases to amaze.
The home page bills itself as a museum of the obscure.

Here's what's playing now...
Played @ Song Title
06:58:54 Pullice - Little Girl (Unreleased) Santa Rosa, Cal. 1966 (From Master) Current Song
06:56:14 Graf Zeppelin - You're In My Mind (Orlyn 4588) Chicago, Ill. 196-
06:53:13 7th Seal - Mr. You're A Better Man Than I (Justice Recording Co.) Bridgewater Virginia 1967 (post-English Muffins)
06:48:37 Dizzy Satellites - Underwater Love (Music Maniac 007) Berlin, Germany 1986
06:45:55 Tracers - Gloria (Unreleased) Minot, N.Dakota 1966
06:43:42 Hungri I's - Hold On (Bee Jay Demo, Vol.2) Tener 1014 - Daytona Beach, Fla. 1967
06:41:39 Frankie and The Upsetters - The Kind Of Love I Need (University Artist 8801) Baton Rouge, La. 1965
06:38:59 Unrelated Segments - Story Of My Life (HBR 514) Mich. 1967
06:36:21 Hard Times - Can't Wait Till Friday (Gray Ant 107) Washington D.C. USA 1966
06:34:06 Stone Country - Mantra (RCA 3958) Hollywood, Cal. 1968
06:31:41 Ford Theatre - I Feel Uncertain (ABC 681) Milford, Mass. 1969
06:28:06 Pearls Before Swine - The Surrealistic Waltz (ESP 1054) NY 1967
06:25:18 Landlords - I'll Return (Reed 1069) Boston, Mass. 1967
06:23:42 Tracers - She Said Yeah (Solly 928) Minot, N.Dakota 1966
06:23:42 Spot - Tom Donahue - 1969 KSAN Newscast
06:21:33 Omen And Their Luv - Maybe Later (Daisy 4824) Tuscaloosa, Alabama 1967
06:18:08 Rock Shop - Is That Your Halo (Rowena 853) Monterey, Cal. 1967
06:15:05 Superfine Dandelion - I Can Never Say (Unreleased) Phoenix, Az. 1967
06:12:26 Roy Head And The Great Believers - Easy Lovin' Girl (Unreleased) Houston, Tx.
06:05:45 Them - If You And I Could Be As Two (Decca 12281) Belfast, Ireland 1965

 

Techweb of Sound was incredible. So many psychedelic gems. Used to record that on my computer a bit.

Your link to that station sounds great, just wish they told you the artist and song name.

 

Pinguin Classics on the Dutch Pinguin Radio app.

Pinguin Radio by Pinguin Radio ‎Pinguin Radio

 

They do list artist/song/label/country/year in the stream if you get the stream through, say iTunes or Shoutcast.

So true, about TWOS, but TWOS was also tad a bit more mainstream, late 6o's playlists than Beyond The Beat Generation is.
Beyond The Beat Generation while awesome and still great, does tend to not ever, ever play any hits from the time period, at all, and the better known artists are often represented by the more obscure songs from their catalogs, though not exclusively.

 

WFMU
It was, may still be, a great, great terrestrial FM college station out of northern NJ for decades. But the college went bust a few years ago, and the station went international.

WFMU-FM 91.1/Jersey City, NJ; 90.1/Hudson Valley, NY – We're an independent freeform station broadcasting at 91.1 fm in New York, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, and with gobs and gobs of online offerings.

 

I don't really have a favorite, but if one is looking for a meat & potatoes oldies station, you can't go wrong with KSRF, which is terrestrial here in Los Angeles, but also streams on the web (Click HERE). Their format is quite straight-forward. They play anything that charted in the 20 year period from late 1954 to late 1974. The oldest thing you'll hear on the station is probably "Earth Angel" and the newest is probably "Black Water."

 

ClassicOldies.co.uk Plays just 50's & 60's 24/7. Just what I like!
The daft thing is that I can't get it through their web site because I have a MacBook Air. Their site won't work with Apple, I have to get it through I-Tunes Internet list, Crazy!

 

Oui FM Alternatif
Our FM Rock Indé
ByteFM
La Grosse Radio Reggae
...are on heavy rotation here.

 

We have Sirius at work. It was always on some Top 40 station that made me suicidal. Recently, I stumbled upon Little Steven's Underground Garage. They always play a healthy dose of Beatles plus lots of garage rock both familiar and obscure. Some of the kids I work with "get it", some don't. I'm trying to educate them. At least I'm a lot happier now.

 

Choice Classic Rock- nice deep tracks station
Beatles-A-Rama
Morow- prog radio
America’s Ultimate Oldies Channel- mainly 60s and 70s but hits the 50s and some 80s too and not the usual stuff

 

Thanks for all the recommendations.

As an aside, do you use an app to listen? I use the Simple Radio app for iPhone, which works really well. My only complaint is that it doesn’t show details of the song being played.

Are there apps that do show song details?

Currently listening to GD Radio (24/7 Grateful Dead). Good sound quality. Recommended for all you Deadheads.

 

jazz88 - KSDS San Diego 88.3
https://www.jazz88.org/Listen.asp

Straight up jazz with DJs that know jazz.

 

I like the McIntosh radio station. Good mix, high bitrate. Mostly classic rock but not afraid to mix some modern stuff as well as jazz/blues in on occasion.

McIntosh Music

Blue meters on my PC are cool.

 

I use Tune-In on my HT Receiver, when at the computer I just navigate to the page. If they don't have their own player it opens in Foobar.