Archive for the 'Music' Category

Another one bites the dust

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Just this year Y100 disappeared into the radio netherworld. Today 94 WYSP made that same journey, never to return.
I don’t normally listen to commercial radio these days except in the morning, but when I got in my car to go home for lunch, 93.3 WMMR was on and Pierre Robert was talking with two other [...]

Podcasting from Real and Windows Media Player sources

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

So I’ve had an iPod for a few months now, and it’s been absolutely great. I use it all the time at work and in the car. I’ve brought it along on a couple trips up north and it was quite useful for the car rides. I also got a little use out of [...]

iPod, uPod, we all scream for iPod

Friday, February 25th, 2005

Yes, I finally bit the small, white bullet.
I really shouldn’t have, but in light of y100 disappearing from the landscape, I felt the need to do something to combat the dwindling number of choices on the air. When I turned on my car this morning, I heard yucky urban music instead of the Preston and [...]

Exit y100

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

As of noon today, Philly’s only alternative rock station is gone, to be replaced — again — by 103.9 The Beat, the new programming that replaced 103.9 WDRE back in 1997. At the moment y100 is still playing alternative rock, but I could tell for the past week or so that something was up, because [...]

A bit of nostalgia

Monday, February 14th, 2005

(Two and two are four
Four and four are eight
Eight and eight are sixteen
Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two)
Inch worm, inch worm
Measuring the marigold
You and your arithmetic
You’ll probably go far
Inch worm, inch worm
Measuring the marigold
Seems to me you’d stop and sing
How beautiful they are
— music and words by Frank Loesser, sung by Danny Kaye