I fondly remember a trip to the USA in 2007. I was visiting a friend in Phoenix, only to find out that the KDST channel in GTA SA wasn't entirely parody.

Got those who don't know, GTA had a bunch of parody radio channels, KDST was the rock turned channel where Guns and Roses front man, Axl Rose was the voice actor for the DJ.

Turns out there was a rock station in Phoenix KDKB 'everything that rocks' where Alice Cooper hosted a show a couple hours every evening. If was really surreal driving around in America, for the first time, with a channel on that would occasionally play one of the songs in the GTA playlist.

Anyway I listened to them back home for a while, via internet radio, because we don't have dedicated rock radio. Unfortunately they got sold off... Rip

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well if you brunch at a typical retirement home, won't you get that type of radio?

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah I only got the community name after posting and decide to keep it up regardless. The difference in radio culture is quite notable.

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Up next we have 15 minutes of ads

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Love to listen to three hours of car ads on a five hour drive, while cruising around in a 2004 Honda Civic that I plan to keep driving for another decade.

[–] voodoocode@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I bet you still have a CD Player in there so why bother

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I do have a player, but I no longer own a burner

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Kids these days needing 21 pilots. Back in my day we only had 4, and they were all of them were from Stone Temples.

[–] iamericandre@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

21 pilots, in this economy?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Right? Even inflation adjusted since the Stone Temple Pilots debut album "Core" release in 1992, the 137.4% inflation rate they should only be asking for 9.496 pilots. So asking for an additional 11.504 pilots for a total of 21 pilots is just greedy.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

"What if I explained the Green text joke as a tweet?"

[–] FryHyde@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Sklar brothers had a bit about KSHE-95, a very real and ridiculous classic rock station out of St. Louis that is still doing this shit. I love it.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Q: What even is an "imagine dragon"?
A: Imagine dragon deez nuts across your face.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Bad dragon!

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

spicy food at a restaurant be like:

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

spicy food at a restaurant be like:

One consistent exception to this in my experience is Indian food. If you ask for your biryani to be "spicy" then say goodbye to your loved ones and make peace with your maker before the first bite.

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

Tell them "Indian Spicy" and enjoy!

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I like to send it back and tell the chef he forgot the spicy.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I just tell them I don't want white people spicy.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm white, my wife is Desi. When we go to Indian restaurants, we have to order each other's food. She asks for mild and gets hot, I ask for hot and get mild-medium. So, when I ask for mild for her food, she actually gets mild.

She's someone who finds pepper spicy, and I often struggle to find the spice in a habanero.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Would your username be in any way related to your appreciation of spicy food?

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Unrelated, but it does get me a little more power behind my name

[–] mpdarkguy@piefed.world 1 points 4 days ago

https://youtu.be/28HkXoCghm8

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

local rock stations

yeah, Im not convinced that is still a thing. The vast majority of terrestrial radio stations are owned by large corporations. "Local" is a big stretch there.

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Interesting question. How is it with traditional FM am in the us? In Germany (and I thought more country's) DAB is taking over. While it is still broadcast it has lowered to bar for smaller players. But You still have to pay for a slot you can broadcast on. Although you just send a data stream to the actual broadcaster.

With the Internet being a thing for a while I am asking myself why you would run a broadcast channel (FM am dab) anyway. High cost in equipment, licenses and energy are a high barrier for normal people. And if You have a cooperation behind you then you won't have full control over content.

So why are there still normal stations around and even new ones popping up? Because we have these receivers in our cars?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Digital radio in the US almost isn't a different service; it's kind of weird, digital is broadcast alongside the traditional analog, you tune the radio to the analog signal first and then digital subcarriers are available if you have a compatible receiver. Find me an American who isn't a broadcast engineer or ham that has any idea what the fuck I'm talking about; nobody uses that shit.

In my area (and the following paragraph will narrow that down to about 17,000 square miles), there are a lot of iHeartRadio affiliates like WDCG and WRCQ. You've got some locally owned conglomerates, like Capitol Radio that owns several prominent TV and radio stations chief among them is WRAL-TV and WRAL-FM. The biggest independent station, as in "one company, one transmitter" I can think of is WKRR transmitting a classic rock format on 92.3, home of the Two Idiots Named Chris show.

I'm not counting the public/college stations like WUNC, nor 88.1 Jesus FM WGOD.

The entire industry seems propped up by the drive time morning shows. The vast majority of Americans forgot about radio when they bought an mp3 player and now everybody uses Spotify. Or that one weird guy who's still got Pandora. Broadcast radio is mostly ads, so unless you're looking for news, weather or traffic you're better off with streaming services.

[–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Five Finger Death Punch is an emo band

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Why they're so Hard to See on the radio

[–] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why is this so accurate.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They played shit like Candlebox for two decades to wear down any resistance to crap music. The people that still cared are long gone from radio listening I imagine.

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Woah woah woah, let's not bring grunge into this

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

I would never have classified them as grunge, they were just around during the same time period.

[–] protist@retrofed.com -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Because like 3 companies own nearly all radio stations in the US, so they're all the same

[–] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Except I'm in Europe. I think it's just a common thing of those kind of radio.