So, I've been seriously considering taking my love of music to another level of sharing it with all of you lovely souls out there...I've been considering creating an Internet radio station.  There are two main reasons for this: First, I like it when you people can actually get a taste of the music that I enjoy, especially when it allows you to subsequently find an artist or song that you enjoy as much as I do.  Secondly, and more importantly, I've grown tired of radio in general.  There is no station out there that appeals to everything...not necessarily everybody, but there is no station out there that encompasses great music from all realms.  For example, there is no station that isn't primarily hip hop that provides a real platform for some great hip hop bands.  Mars Ill, Deepspace 5, The Procussions, LA Symphony...just to name a few of the best artists you've never heard of.  And that's the problem.  The best artists you've never heard of should be artists you haven't heard of because they're poor artists, not because they're grossly underexposed.  Take another example in the hard rock genre.  Project 86...a band that's certainly a bit more well-known than the previously mentioned artists.  And yet their most recent disc, ...And The Rest Will Follow (One of my favorites from 2005), sold only 8,000 copies in it's first week...and this was the band's best showing in five discs!  310,000 copies sold total from all five discs.  Now yes, many artists will never make it to five discs or show that kind of consistency and continually grow their fan base.  Many bands will never even make it into Billboard's Top 200 or their Heatseeker list, let alone at #131 and #3, respectively.  And yet, many bands and artists with far less talent will sell three times the career sales of Project 86 in one week!  It is insanely frustrating to see great bands be outdone by terrible artists.



That is why I want to start my own station.  There is great music in every genre out there, better music than you could ever imagine hearing from your local radio stations.  And if people are willing to give that stuff a chance, then maybe (just maybe) these bands that are the best you've never heard can become the best thing you've ever heard.



Updates will be coming if I do decide to start up a station.  And I hope that you will take the opportunity to listen if I put it up.  I promise you, it will be worth your time.