This is the best station I have found in Nashville for talk programming…read more They have local shows from 5 am through 7 pm. Great caliber of hosts. Also good choices for syndicated shows. However I would recommend some other station for weekend listening. The daytime weekend shows, except for Kim Komando are basically hour long paid advertisements. I want to hear talk over the weekend too, not some real estate, mortgage loan, or chiropractor show. I feel they let the listener down in this. Overall at least for weekday listening they're great.

Despite working for a tech company, I am a bit of a Luddite -- purposefully so. There's an art to…read morethe written word over pictures, cursive over type and non-reliance on digitized electronics for ever part of one's life. Don't get me wrong: tech is great and has afforded much ease and innovation. But I think having it seep into every portion of our lives can be destructive. Case in point: getting up in the morning. I can count on both hands the number of times I have used my phone as my alarm clock. I know the capability is there but a.) I don't like having my phone on 24/7 and b.) I don't sleep with my phone in my bedroom. I use an alarm clock. Still. Well, I'm not completely part of the stone age. It's a radio alarm clock, not the shrill type with the bell that forces you awake with a jolt and a rapidly beating heart. I ease into my morning/day with music. At least, I like to do so. Nashville being Nashville, I was a bit surprised (initially) at my lack of radio options. I could wake to NPR (I enjoy listening to it but the dulcet tones of Ari Shapiro aren't likely to wake me and get me out of bed). I could listen to country (the genre has grown on me but I can't admit to being a fan). Sports radio (in my world) can only be taken in very (very!) small doses. Even finding adequate pop/r&b options on FM was a bit of a challenge. I found myself switching wake up options every few months. And then I heard it: the Pixies. Followed by Ella Fitzgerald. When I heard Bela Fleck I knew that I had found my station. To my ears, WXNA is an extension of the college radio I remembered with rose-sounding headphones. It's a diverse, volunteer station helmed by people who love music. Plain and simple. There are all manner of shows and I have taken to listening to it far beyond what pops up on the display at early o'clock. Some of my faves: The Jazz Connection, D-Funk, Highs In the Mid 70s, The Inconsiderate Mixtape, Soul Of The City, and Nashville Jumps. Of particular note is when I woke up to 'The Goonies 'R' Good Enough' shortly before the Academy Awards broadcast. WXNA showcases exactly what music should sound like in The Music City. It's diverse. It's eclectic. It's organic. It's really good radio. If you have solely locked on to satellite offerings or playlist-only music to get you through your day, might I suggest a change? Might I suggest a locally-minded street-level-curated journey into the days in which you discovered your musical tastes and how they would be informed? 101.5 was a happy discovery for me. I hope it will be the same for you.

I switched over to this since we dont have a WRVU anymore. It fits my needs but still doesn't quite…read morefill the void.

Loving country music, keep playing a mix of established and new artists, new music can surprise us…read moreall...

I write this review knowing full well that this used to be Vanderbilt's WRVU college radio station…read morebefore they sold it. But that was before my time by a few months. So there. I have only been listening for a few weeks, but it's been wonderful. I really don't listen to much commercial music -- pop, country, hip-hop, or otherwise. And even though I'm a Berkeley grad, I still never listened to their KPFA station and their indie music. Just not my thing. I'm also not an NPR fan. A former coworker played it all day. While it didn't drive me nuts, I was always playing podcasts in my cubicle next door to keep me from hearing most of it. I personally don't want to be emotionally invested in news -- I like it in short bursts. Having just the top news played for a few minutes at the top of the hour is more my style. So, this station has just the perfect blend of classical and news for me. Of course, your mileage may vary.

I still listen to the radio. In fact, I listen to the radio at night as I am winding down from the…read moreday and preparing for bed. You know what? I'll go one further: I use the radio as my alarm. Yep. At night I turn my phone off and ignore it until I have to turn it on for the day. Until then, it's off. I don't charge it. I don't check it during the night. And, looking at it is not the first thing I do when I wake up. So, without a phone for distraction and an alarm, what is someone to do? Use a radio alarm and start the day in a good mood. I 'discovered' 102.1 (The Ville!) by accident as I was tuning my radio away from a nearby station. As I did so, I heard 'Doo-Wop (That Thing).' I hadn't heard that for a minute, so I stayed on the dial. Then I heard 'Real Love.' By the time 'If' played, I knew I had a new favorite, local station. As odd as it is to write, '90s R&B is now a part of 'old school.' Sigh. As generations have noted before, these kids don't know what music is, so to have a station that plays everything from Sam Cooke to Earth, Wind & Fire to Amy Winehouse and can go six songs deep without the first 'let me step away and do something else before the next song comes on' is a modern day mass media miracle. But, The Ville doesn't *only* play (90s) R&B. There's plenty of funk, soul, pop, and melodious hip-hop (not the one-track mumble nightmare the chirrun listen to these days). Nashville radio can skew a bit one-sided (shocking, I know). It's beyond refreshing to find a station like 102.1 The Ville. It puts a pep in my step and a smile on my face. From The Supremes to Stevie and from Chaka to Ciara, I'm so glad to know there's a station that can keep me engaged from morning until night. I don't even mind the incessant station identification. Even *that's* a bit of a refreshing callback.

I called in to request a song That Backroad Bounce and the man I spoke to was very nice and said he…read morewould play my request by M.C. James. I can't wait to hear this song on the radio.

The best Country radio available! I listen to it all day and night. I never was to change…read morestations.

thank you for your excellent broadcasts,i live in south Ga.and extremely enjoy your christian…read moremessages and your courage to broadcast Alex Jones thank you so much and i speak for an immense amount of people.LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD!!!!! It is my passion to spread the word of wwcr

"Nashville: Love Life. Love Music." -WRVW…read more I was tired of listening to the music from Youtube and turned on the radio to get something local. I landed on WRVW for a while and enjoyed the tunes as I drove through Nashville's awesome traffic. It's amazing how many highways join up and split as they pass through this big city! Dua Lipa, Eminem, Linkin Park, Miley Cyrus. It's not rock and it's not adult. It's Top 40ish pop and they seem to play a LOT of Taylor Swift. 107.5 is part of the iHeart radio conglomerate and they're happy to advertise for themselves and the big iHeart music festival that you can catch on other stations or win tickets. *eye roll* [Review 20072 overall - 428 in Tennessee - 1048 of 2023.]

On Sunday, I woke up screaming when the non-news segments of NPR came on instead of classical…read moremusic. It was my first Sunday listening to radio in Nashville. Before I could find out if "A Prairie Home Companion" is part of this lineup, I quickly turned the dial. After half a dozen country music stations, I came across something that reminded me of home: a Top 40 station. Granted, the playlist will repeat itself after a couple of hours. And I was saddened that there wasn't a morning show. The music is solid, but not risky enough to try new releases unless other stations in other markets do so beforehand. But at least I won't be chewing my arm off if I had to endure "A Prairie Home Companion".

"All the Rage" used to be a little pamphlet sized music-centric publication and a couple of years…read moreago, they morphed into a full entertainment guide with articles as well as listings. It's good to have another source for finding entertainment. Although they cover the same events as the Scene, there's a more fun, less judgmental spin and the emphasis is on fun. They cover events and have party coverage and a celebrity "you were spotted," which I admit to reading and enjoying.