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  • What are the best (eclectic, not so commercial) radio stations in the world? I've become a pretty big fan of the giant online-streams-of-terrestrial-radio link repository http://www.radios.com.br/, but am finding it hard to sift through the scads and scads of radio stations it lists. Given that I like radio stations along the lines of my city's http://www.kdhx.org/ (i.e. independently-owned, not cheesy or commercial, eclectic, good mix of nationally-specific music like blues, with new, interesting, and obscure rock/hip-hop/electronic/etc.), does anyone know of some particularly good, similar radio stations abroad (or in the U.S., for that matter)? Thanks!

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    If you haven't seen it before, check out http://publicradiofan.com. Some of my favorites are WWOZ, WNCW, KCRW, WYEP, WEMU, all of which have great blues and eclectic programing in general.

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http://www.kdvs.org/ is UC Davis' famously indie "you heard it here first-or-possibly-ever-at-all" station. If that sounds super-annoying it can be, but bear in mind that former DJs include Blacklacious, Lyrics Born, DJ Shadow, one-of-the-guys-from-Cake et al. If they ever dredge up the "Not So Siskel and Ebert Radio Hour" from the vaults and digitize it? It'll make my year.

fshgrl

8-milionth'ing . Nothing really comes close. They aren't annoyingly "eclectic" for eclectic's sake (i.e. Radio Paradise) or pseudo-"eclectic"--read BORING--and self-consciously hip (i.e., KCRW), and with a few rare exceptions, you can really tell that the music that each respective DJ plays is truly played out of a love and appreciation for the song or band. But you'll often even hear DJs second guessing some of their song selections, right on the air. The first time I heard an FMU DJ basically admit that one of the tracks they just played kinda sucked, I was an instant fan. There is a 100% chance that you won't like everything that a particular DJ spins at any given moment...in fact, there's a good chance that there will be times when you'll hate what you're hearing so much that you'll need to turn down the volume. But in not trying to cater to the lowest common denominator of listenership, you end up discovering some of the most wonderful, exciting music that you'll never hear on most other stations. And if reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFMU doesn't convince you that WFMU is truly something very, very special, then please don't tell me...because it will sadden me greatly.

melorama

http://www.wwoz.org/ontheair/programschedule/ in New Orleans is a great public radio station.

wsg

You might like BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/.

Luddite

I can't believe only bananafish has mentioned WOXY so far. Definitely my favorite. Eclectic but not annoying. Great mix.

radioamy

I love http://www.95bfm.com, Auckland's university radio station. It is rather eclectic, intelligent and (I think) brilliant.

teststrip

Seconding Radio Paradise.

kirkaracha

http://wmbr.mit.edu/, http://www.wmfo.org/. Boston has great radio. Sigh.

kuujjuarapik

Wow, great question, I am excited to check some of these out. I'll throw out a vote for http://www.kzmu.org/ in Moab, Utah. You can find several other similar community radio stations via the http://www.grradio.org/members.html, many of which have online streams.

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