Sirius Killed Punk Rock
So I’ve had a free subscription to Sirius radio ever since I bought my new Audi. It’s quite a nice service, no commercials and I get treated like an adult (i.e. swear words aren’t bleeped out). Some problems I have endured mainly come from the fact that I don’t hear commercials. For instance, I forgot sweetest day this year and I didn’t hear the advertisements for the Chili Cookoff this year.So now only tickets are available at the door.
One of the perks of Sirius is that they are constantly updating content… well it was a perk until this morning.
I’ve been dealing with the fact that the Punk channel has been AC/DC radio for over a month. I thought it was going to stop when the new album dropped… but it didn’t. Now that channel no longer exists and is replaced by some light “rock”. My favorite channel Boombox, is gone. No longer are there any stations that remix rock and pop songs. Only 2 dance stations, where there used to be 5.
There are more classic rock stations that I will have to check out over the next couple of weeks, but there are also more “single band stations”. One of which is Led Zepplin. So, that is awesome, but only Zep? At least it will be a constant source of good music.
They have also upped the number of Jazz stations from 2 to 5. And I found a station called “real jazz” which sounded good this morning.
Anyway, here is the new linup. It seems Zepplin station will be going away 01/01/09.
This is pretty annoying.
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November 12th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Wow, that’s really lame. I had no idea that they changed up the lineup like that. Glad I don’t pay for it! Not having commercials isn’t worth too much if the music they play instead still sucks…..
I like my current method for music right now; hit up last.fm to find some new stuff, download said new stuff, burn to CD and put it in the ride.
Anyway, maybe you’ll get lucky once they start merging the XM stuff in. Or did they already start that?
November 13th, 2008 at 10:51 am
The merge is what caused this mashup.
On the plus side I found a new rap section. But nothing can really replace my old lineup.
If this keeps up I will probably wait till my subscription is over and then hack in a jack for my mp3 player.