FM 88.1 KDHX is a fun little independent, community radio station that's been on the air here in St. Louis for around 20 years. The station is staffed almost totally by volunteer DJs who have their own blocks of time each day to play their chosen format of music. A co-worker here at the P-D does a family-oriented music show every Saturday morning, for instance. I've always been a casual listener but a couple of months ago I started tuning in more frequently. I hear music on their shows that I wouldn't hear anywhere else or that wouldn't get played on corporate commercialized radio.
Case in point: I was listening to Cat Pick's "Emotional Rescue" Monday morning drive-time show this past Monday. She played the song "Transatlantic" by a Polish pop/rock group called Silver Rocket. I had never even heard of them or any of their work. She had only heard of them via their MySpace page. I really loved the song and did some research on the band. Their CD "Tesla" is not in any record store but is only available for digital download. I downloaded the CD from Amazon .com for $5.99.
By the way, "Tesla" is, as you might imagine, a reference to the 19th century inventor/genius Nikolay Tesla. The CD is a concept album based on his life. How cool is that?
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