Internet Radio Rocks

I got Sonos last month and now I can listen to Internet Radio (meaning any radio station in the country delivered via the Internet) on the multi-room audio system in my house.

And guess what?

I am listening to a ton of Internet radio.

WEHM - East Hampton, New York

KEXP - Seattle, Washington

KCRW - Santa Monica, California

Indie 103.1 - Los Angeles, California

Until now, radio was a local thing.  But now, its a national thing.  The best programming wins. I can listen to whatever radio station I want!

So please send me your suggestions for other great stations to add to this list (and the URLs of the streams if you know them).

Comments

[C. Maoxian]

WNCW out of Spindale, NC is the best radio station I've found in the United States; they have a 128K stereo stream to boot. Enjoy!

[Steve]

Love your blog. If you haven't checked it out before, be sure to give a listen to WOXY.com. I like the other internet radio stations, but WOXY is far and away my favorite. Best DJs, best music, best everything, and they're doing it without serious private funding.

[candice]

WWOZ in New Orleans! Best jazz station on earth. http://www.wwoz.org/ for info, http://wwoz-sc.streamguys.com/listen.pls -- that's a standard stream. They also broadcast a lot of jazzfest on there. It's not perfect yet, they are still in temporary studios since Katrina. (As is the rest of public radio down there. One of the stations was broadcasting out of a coffeehouse for a couple of months -- WTUL, also worth a listen, for more independent music. http://www.wtul.fm, http://129.81.33.31:8000/listen.m3u )

WBER up in Rochester used to help keep me sane, too, that's at http://wber.monroe.edu.

[Scott Walker]

Minnesota Public Radio launched The Current last year: absolutely fabulous indy music, publicly supported.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/

[Karen E]

WERS in Boston has a live stream. Emerson College Radio is fantastic at all hours of the day. Highlights include 6 am to 10 am weekdays, 'The Coffeehouse', featuring new and old acoustic and singer-songwriter selections, very tightly edited for a not-too-folksy sound.

[Cem Sertoglu]

Sitting here in Istanbul, and listening to my favortie NYC radio station, I felt the urge to correct: Radio is a Global Thing :)

[Charlie Crystle]

kqed san francisco. best npr

[Nico]

KFOG in San Francisco.

[Frank]

Check out mob-me.com

It is a simple web site with dynamically updated URL's. Save a playlist to your portable streaming MP3 player, and the playlist updates everytime you connect.

The site has playlists for the most popular Genre and is growing everyday.

[Aaron Quint]

Living in the Boston area for the past 5 years, Id second that WERS 88.9 is really great. Really eclectic programming.

My favorite though is WZBC 90.3 Boston College Radio. They have a crazy array of programming, including a really great show of dusty lesser known records from the 60's and 70's. Check the programming list, though, as they have something for everybody.

[druce]

Radio Paradise -
http://www.radioparadise.com/

Bill & Rebecca play pretty much everyone you mention, like those linked on the left.

The 192K feed sounds great, although 128K more reliable on my SqueezeBox.

[rick gregory]

As I sit here listening to KCRW's music stream, I've gotta pipe up for Radio Paradise. One of my top few streams...

The site is at radioparadise.com. They have a variety of streams including a (are you ready?) 192K MP3 stream! That's right, 192k!!

Here's the link to that stream.

Of course, now I've gotta check out the other streams people have chimed in with.... Sundays are SO tough...

[justin]

I have to throw in another vote for WBER, http://wber.monroe.edu . I have the benefit of living the area so I can listen at home and in the car too.

My current favorite is http://soma.fm its a pure net station and their selection is great.

http://di.fm is good if you are into the techno scene.

Honestly I prefer pure net stations since they have more streams to select from.

[simon]

heya Fred,

If your up for some aussie radio. You can listen to the station i work for which is 4BC Brisbane's News Talk 1116. You can view our site at www.4bc.com.au (by yours truly). Our demographic is 45+ and are essentianlly a News Talk station. I hope you enjoy

Thanks again
Simon

[Marc James]

Another vote for RadioParadise.com. Love it! 192K sounds amazing on my Sennheiser headphones.

[B.]

Maybe I'm biased, but I like my little low-budget offering. Eclectic, and kinda off-beat. Hey we even play Zappa.

But, no sales pitch. Try it and decide for yourself.

www.eargazm.com

Hope ya like us.
B.

[Jim Griffin]

Fred: If you had the choice between access to Internet radio, satellite radio, HD radio, AM/FM radio or various "pull" forms of digital media (MP3 player, Rhapsody, etc.), how would you rank your choices? To which would you turn first?

[cm]

http://www.wxrv.com/

The River from the north shore of Boston... i guess you call it Adult Contemporary.

[Geoff]

Has to be www.di.fm for me

[Nick Patience]

Fred - Based on your musical tastes, you should check out BBC 6Music. I think you'll like it.

[Mike]

SomaFM from San Fran, great great indie station. Fantastic blend. Give it 20 minutes, won't let you down.

http://www.somafm.com/

[Andrew Schamess]

I'm so glad you're writing about internet radio. I love independent radio, and browsing the net for new stations is a great hobby.

A few of my favorites are WKCR in your home town of NYC (fantastic jazz programming), KBCS in Bellevue, Washington (jazz and folk) and Concertzender in the Netherlands (classical, world music).

You've actually inspired me to post my whole collection of streaming internet radio links - if anyone has the same taste I do (jazz, classical, country, roots music), I think they'd enjoy browsing the streams.

All my best, and happy listening!

[Ann V.]

FolkAlley.com for acoustic and folk music and WXPN.org for when I want to rock. Also, there's great stuff from the BBC (www.bbc.co.uk).

[kiki]

WWW.KROCK2.com
amaazzzing blend of indie & rock music
check it out.. i listen to it everyday at work!