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Originally Posted by iFreezeTime
Congrats on your first show =)
haha. That's a list, but worth going through to see if you dig any you haven't heard of. Only ATDI, SDRE, and No Knife are now broken up. The rest are newer and could use the extra exposure.
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Could they really? Seems that list is already pretty tired on the run-of-the-mill college radio stations that have (small "c") catholic listening tastes.
What brick-and-mortar media such as radio (and even online radio) needs are DJ's and hosts who are courageous enough to rise above the morass of mediocrity and shoot for greatness. Dig deep every week for new stuff even you haven't heard of. The trick is to find a good spot to mine so that you don't burn yourself out listening to a buncha crap. But once you do, you'll find that you as a DJ will have become a fruitful mine for other people who are tired of the same ol' thing. It spreads like a disease. Very slowly, but it's more impactful to your few than overhyped middling college schlock/indie rock is to the casual barely-surface-scratching music fan.
As for those records in WRUI's library, I recommend taking a weekend when you have nothing better to do and listening to
every single compilation in the genre of your choice from A-Z. Keep a listening journal and write a one-sentence review of every song you hear that especially interests you. It won't take too long even if their library is as big as ours at KDVS (approx 300,000 volumes, taking up about 10,000 cubic feet). It only takes about five seconds to realize when something sucks...then just skip to the next song.
After you're done with that, you will have amassed a journal of hundreds of new bands you've just discovered, and now you can use that as a map for further exploration of the rest of your library, from A-Z, not including the compilation section. Many of those artists you just discovered will have other records there.
Your next radio show will make you sound like an absolute guru.
If ten years from now, you still haven't given up, hopefully you'll still be scavenging for new discoveries. But once you've run outta that fire, you might as well quit.