R.I.P. Indie 103.1, Welcome Indie Online

"This is an important message for the Indie 103.1 Radio Audience -

Indie 103.1 will cease broadcasting over this frequency effective immediately. Because of changes in the radio industry and the way radio audiences are measured, stations in this market are being forced to play too much Britney, Puffy and alternative music that is neither new nor cutting edge. Due to these challenges, Indie 103.1 was recently faced with only one option --- to play the corporate radio game.

We have decided not to play that game any longer. Rather than changing the sound, spirit, and soul of what has made Indie 103.1 great Indie 103.1 will bid farewell to the terrestrial airwaves and take an alternative course.

This could only be done on the Internet, a place where rules do not apply and where new music thrives; be it grunge, punk, or alternative - simply put, only the best music.

For those of you with a computer at home or at work, log on to www.indie1031.com and listen to the new Indie 103.1 - which is really the old Indie 103.1, not the version of Indie 103.1 we are removing from the broadcast airwaves.

We thank our listeners and advertisers for their support of the greatest radio station ever conceived, and look forward to continuing to deliver the famed Indie 103.1 music and spirit over the Internet to passionate music listeners around the world."





Damn the music/radio/television industries these days.
I blame greed, dollar sign eyes and most people in America these days who want to watch and listen to the same shit over and over again.

Great shows, such as Pushing Daisies, get canceled and now, an entire radio station, one of the like three really worth listening to (the other two being KCRW and KUSC), is forced off the airwaves.

It was a slow process.
Great shows were being lost from Indie.
Community Service with Scott and Ken (The Crystal Method), Feel My Heat with Brent Bolthouse and Danny Masterson, and Big Sonic Heaven hosted by Darren Revell were all lost around October of 08, and the station was slowly declining. The departure of Joe Escalante as host of "The Last of the Famous International Morning Shows...", the morning show on Indie, was just a sign that something bad was happening. I loved Joe in the morning and TK was great in the afternoons, and he was doing fine as Joe's replacement, but there was something changing with the station that I don't think anybody at the station could have done anything about. It was one of my primary stations, and probably the one I listened to the most, but now, thanks to the idiots of the industry and the majority of people who have absolutely no taste at all, granted, listen to what you want...but seriously, come on? The same twelve songs on rotation every hour of every day?

With Indie, everyday I would listen and everyday I would hear at least two songs I have never heard on the radio, or have ever even heard at all. It never failed. I loved it.
My car ride's will be lame now. I definitely need to buy a CD player for my car now...

But, I can only look at this in a positive manner and say it's for the best. I'd rather have Indie be what it is than it turn into something that I would hate. I don't need another KROQ. I don't even like the one we have now.

But, as mentioned up in the official message from Indie, they will continue to broadcast online, where they will have the freedom beyond freedom. It will be great, I know it, and everything will be improved. Maybe, if the world is ever ready, there will be another station on the airwaves that has the heart, soul and passion for music that Indie did, or maybe Indie will get another chance when people realize what they're missing. Unfortunately, they never will.

So please join the Indie revolution. The station that would play almost any request. The station that had DJ's and guest DJ's buying songs off of iTunes right on the spot just to play it for their audience.

Music Activism.
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I will miss this station on my travels.

.erick.