The Death and Life of Free Radio

Austin microradio lived fast and died young -- can the movement live to broadcast another day?

"...willing to let you in." The recorded voice of Free Radio Austin's last broadcaster. "Just show me your search..."

June 22, 2001 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Microradio Contacts

A list of Web sites and information contacts on microradio

"...Prometheus Radio Projectwww.prometheus.tao.ca..."

June 22, 2001 News Feature

Preachers and Pirates

The FCC proposes LPFM stations as an alternative to microradio, but that political process also generates static.

"...After Free Radio Berkeley was shut down in 1994, the FCC..."

June 22, 2001 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Media Watch: Shiver Me Timbers

Pirate radio station tells FCC to go walk a plank

"...Com­mun­i­ca­tions Commission moved to shut down an unlicensed Austin radio broadcast, the pirate station is still on the air,..."

Aug. 6, 2010 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Whither Rock?

ii.

"...moment in time when it seemed like everything -- radio, MTV, the music industry in general -- would change...."

Oct. 17, 1997 Books Feature by Gina Arnold

Postmarks

Yoga and Starbucks. Karaoke and republicans. Squirrel rifles and Al Gore. Together for the first time in this week's letters to the editor!

"...corporate monsters, how would we ever know about the free day of yoga in Austin last Labor Day Monday,..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...poll you cite KUT's Eklektikos for "Best Locally Produced Radio Show." You rightly give a tip of the hat..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column

Sxsw

"...rock but audiences are not: Their popularity on the radio and the packed club gigs are testament to Breedlove's..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Postmarks

"...An all-news format is the most expensive format in radio. It was a ballsy decision by KVET management to..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Column

The Death of Brad Will

An American reporter films his own murder in Oaxaca, and Mexican and U.S. authorities look the other way

"..."¡Si ves a un gringo con cámara, mátalo!" the radio chattered: "If you see a gringo with a camera,..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Feature by John Ross

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Our readers talk back.

"...how the people who criticized Clinton were just exercising free speech, while those who bash Bush are un-American?..."

March 28, 2003 Column

The Kingdom of Heaven

Psychedelic pioneer Powell St. John, on the Right Track Now

"...raised in Laredo, he went to college to find freedom. In Laredo, his father had been principal at Powell's..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

2005 ACL Music Fest Preview

All 'picks' no 'sleepers' for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, one blurb at a time

"...duo known as the Ditty Bops. They're ragtime-loving, Busby Berkeley-copping, washboard-playing, slide-whistle-wielding raconteurs, and their self-titled debut spans the..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature

As Charlie Jones Exits C3, He Traces His Journey From College Station to Founding ACL Fest

Leaving the music promotions empire he helped build, Jones begins his new events company, Four Leaf

"...KLBJ deejay, that a moment with him on the radio here made me know I was home. I was..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Vinyl’s Tin Cup Chalice

Finyl vinyl thoughts from the stacks of Antone’s Records

"...substance abuse either. The Dead got high same as free jazz: cut all moorings from the physical for the..."

Jan. 15, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Gay Place: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GLENN!

Spank Glenn Eaddy one time for us!

"...6, 6-8pm. Whole Foods Market, 525 N. Lamar, 476-1206. Free. www.asaustin.org...."

Sept. 7, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...same hundred or so folks who got the album free in 1988. Only a real showcase might have broken..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

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Contradictions Exposed

"...or no, it remains true that ARCC cannot provide free counseling to as many victims as it formerly did,..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Column

The Basement Tapes

The Netherworld of Iconoclastic Music

"...with a foul-mouthed outtake from "Casey Kasem's Top 40" radio show to create the 1991 12-inch "U2 Negativland." While..."

March 28, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Static Interference

KOOP Ponders An Ally's Anti-Union Stance

"...The Pacifica Radio Network and Austin's KOOP (91.7FM) would seem to be..."

Feb. 28, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

Friday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...year's eponymous debut has been making waves on regional radio. – Christopher GrayFIRES WERE SHOT8pm, Copa John Wilkins and..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...rarefied musical collage that recalls both the Red Krayola's free-form freak-outs and Joe Raposo's Sesame Street songs. Michigan songwriter..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

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Emory & Young Not Conservative

"...office. Mr. Young has been a longtime supporter of freedom and liberalism not only in our town, but around..."

May 16, 1997 Column

ACL Music Fest Preview

"...of Bob Wills alive and well during their irrepressible, freewheeling, and undisputed reign as the kings of Western swing...."

Sept. 15, 2006 Music Feature

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...kind of mood or movie. Summer is light and carefree, aimed at all the kids out of school with..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wednesday Picks

The 'Chronicle' says see these SXSW acts now

"...9pm, Continental Club Born in Chicago, raised in Berkeley, and now living in Austin, Love possesses a soul-shaking..."

March 9, 2007 Music Feature

The Final Act

The Texas Documentary Tour hosts Robert Stone's 'Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst'

"...the SLA's missives, those audio tapes dropped at a Berkeley radio station, the youthful voices of the group (identified..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...RADIO 4: The Primal Scream elements are tough to miss..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

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Death Penalty Violates Constitution

"...religious schools operated independent of public schools, by religious freedom, citizens morally or religiously opposed to executions by the..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Column

Wallet and Spirit

Sickbed Fortune

"...the kin, daily home prayer, mandatory listening to Lutheran radio programs, family reunions that always opened with a religious..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

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