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Streams (vaguely in order of my preference, but not really) this is not white text.
- Radio Paradise - mostly a great variety of eclectic stuff, a good source of material I don't hear anywhere else, or to hear things first. I listen to this constantly. (32k) (128k)
  There's also a Listener Review Channel, where users rate songs to guide their inclusion in the main stream. (128k)
- DJ Pie -- my former housemate Rachel. She does a weekly thing called Live From Rachel's Bedroom, wherein she DJs live from, uh, her bedroom. She's an outstanding chill DJ, and I highly recommend her stuff. (live occasionally) (re-broadcasts from rachel's bedroom) (LFRB Archive)
- t-spigot radio - from one of the guys behind T-Spigot. The music is all over the map, the more so because much of the time it's being programmed by people talking to a bot in a MOO. (128k)
- Monkey Radio - I just discovered this, and it's rocking my socks with goodness. The site is worthless, but you get what you pay for. (128k)
- OEM Radio - downtempo/ambient. (128k)
- BUZZOUTROOM - Sweet mix of downtempo with some crunchiness mixed in. (128k) (playlist)
- WEFUNK - It's funktastic, baby. (64k)
- culture failure - usually nice mellow electronic, from downtempo to ambient, but with occasional alternative and pop selections through the decades. (128k)
- Radio XY - usually uptempo. tends toward non-mopey indie rock (now playing). (128k)
- radioioEclectic - another eclectic stream, which used to have its moments of resembling real radio, but has been consistently very good recently. (64k)
- Radio David Byrne - every month David Byrne programs a three-hour playlist that goes on repeat; on reading his website, it's almost all music he's had a hand in making. (If you're playing catch-up like I had to, David Byrne was the leader of the brilliant and weird 80s band Talking Heads.) (128k)
- Folk Alley - all folk music, all the time. a little sleepy sometimes, but nice if you're in the mood. (128k)
- SomaFM -- various streams of chill, indie, and lounge music, run by a friend of ours. my favorite used to be Groove Salad, though I burned out on it a couple years ago. (Groove Salad 128k) (Indie Pop Rocks 128k)
- Sleepbot - ambient. (56k)
PublicRadioFan - The end-all and be-all for public radio streams: they've somehow scraped the schedules and URLs for hundreds of public radio stations. (music now | non-music now) (All Things Considered) (Morning Edition) (Marketplace) (Fresh Air) (Thistle & Shamrock)
Radio Stations
- KQED -- the lumbering behemoth of Bay Area public radio, since 1954. (mp3) (list of programs)
- KALW -- the mellow underdog station (really cool history). (Windows Media ) (RealPlayer)
  - Home to Hearts of Space, Tangents, and Echoes.
- KCMP The Current -- Fantastic music out of Minneapolis. Sort of alt-rock-eclectic like Radio Paradise, only different. (128k)
- KGNU -- Boulder/Denver non-commercial community radio. Mostly all-over-the-map music with some interesting talk. Like good college radio, but better. (128k)
- KXCI - Arizona Community Radio. I'm not sure how to describe this; it appears to be "every type of music ever made by white people". (128k)
- KEXP - Tacoma/Olympia. Pretty unusual in being listener-supported and almost entirely music. (128k) (32k) [playlist]
- KRCL - Radio Free Utah! I listened to this station all through Utah and part of Nevada (they have a huge range thanks to some relay magic) when I moved out here, and it was so wonderful I even sent them some money and a thank-you note. Finally they have a stream online. (128k) (32k)
- KUNC -- public radio in Colorado, broadcasting Echoes Mon - Thurs, 10 PM - 1 AM MST (mp3 .pls) (mp3 .m3u) (playlist)
- KCRW -- NPR in Santa Monica. (RealPlayer) (mp3) (music mp3)
- KPIG - Weird and wonderful little station in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Oink! (wma)
- KPCC - Public radio in Pasadena. (64k)
- KYRS -- Thin Air Community Radio, Spokane. (mp3)
- WFCR -- Five College Radio in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts. The station I grew up on and still one of the best. (mp3) (HD mp3)
- WAMC -- New York State public radio. (mp3) (Windows Media) (other stuff)
- WSPN -- the radio station of my alma mater, Skidmore College. (mp3) (Shoutcast page, since the stream URL keeps changing)
- KUT -- public radio at UT-Austin. (mp3)
- KALX -- 90.7, Berkeley. (RealPlayer)
- KAZU -- 90.3, Pacifica. (RealPlayer) (more stuff)
- KZSU -- 90.1, Stanford University. (128k) (RealPlayer) (other options)
- KFJC -- 89.7, Foothill College. They have 20k, 40k, and 128k streams in a variety of formats.(128k) (32k) (many other options)
I listen to all of these (when I have time) via podcasts now, which are pretty awesome.
National Public Radio -- (hourly news) (24-hour program stream)
A Prairie Home Companion
DNA Lounge -- a San Francisco club run by former longtime Netscape/Mozilla employee, and diehard crank, Jamie Zawinski. Part of the contract for playing a concert there is allowing the music to be webcast.
- live webcast (various bitrates--128k, 96k, 64k)
- concert archive
Other radio station listings: these are taken from an old Stanford site and many are defunct, and I will eventually reorganize them, so bookmarking these pages is inadvisable.
Places to look up concerts:
- Ticketmaster
- Musi-Cal