The best radio station on the planet! And no commercials!…read more You can give them money through Amazon charities or PayPal.

I found this gem of a radio station years and years ago on a trip from Seattle to Portland. Now I…read morelive in the Midwest but I can still listen to KBRD on the internet.

Came to KEXP just to get a Caffe Vita Del Sol and walked into a space that did not exist the last…read moretime I was around. It's gorgeous/huge and people are actually using it. I'm genuinely glad it's here. Brazil vs. Japan is on FIFA, my coffee is perfect, I grabbed a new Sub Pop tee because my old one is basically a thread, and my friend and I somehow scored the good leather seats. I walked straight into bliss and found myself in one of Seattle's best places to just exist for a minute.

Bay Area music radio sucks. To a certain extent, most music radio sucks these days, but when you…read morecompare the Bay Area's selection of stations (corporate, college, NPR, etc.) to, say, what you can hear in L.A. County, it's not even close--L.A. wins every time. I grew up and went to college in L.A. County, and I spent way more time driving and, thus, listening to the radio in the 1990s and very early 2000s than I do in the Bay Area. Put another way, when I lived in Southern California, I had radio presets on my car. I've lived in San Francisco since 2003 and have had three cars over that time, and I've never bothered with radio presets, because aside from KQED, KALW, and KPFA (none of which are really music stations), it's generally not worth listening to the radio for music here. Until 2024, that is. I was running errands for an upcoming weekend trip, and I happened upon 92.7 FM, which is technically KEXC but which is just a repeater of 90.3 KEXP in Seattle. Whatever show I caught was really cool and eclectic, a combination of a college-radio station and Santa Monica's KCRW. The music was familiar and new at the same time, and the DJ sounded like a very polished college DJ. Over the next few months, I continued to listen KEXP whenever I drove, and then, when I wasn't driving as much, I started streaming it. It's an amazing station with a long, interesting history in Seattle. Its current iteration is nonprofit, but it's not an NPR affiliate, as far as I can tell, and while it is still somehow connected to the University of Washington, it's not purely owned by the university. If they play anything other than music, I've never heard it. Not all the shows are the same, and some DJs are more interesting than others, but it's generally worth listening to at any time of the day. They have some Bay Area sponsors and ads as well, and while I generally abhor ads, most of them are for small businesses both here and in Seattle, so it feels like real community radio.

The Sound! This college radio station serves University of…read morePuget Sound in Tacoma Washington. I love listening to college stations, and they broadcast on TuneIn! I listen to it all the way in San Antonio, and love it! They're apt to follow a Bob Marley song with a synth pop song. They play grunge polka, flaccid jazz, retro fusion pop, and all the hits! They have award winning talk shows, all put on by students, and DJs who know their stuff. There are no commercials, since it's a community radio station. Instead they play public service announcements about how lobsters have feelings too! Super varied music, with funny weird DJs!

Great when on! Usually, off! However, this June past students time around classrooms someone, or…read moresomebodies, have upgraded the programming to mimic a real commercial radio station! If it had regular dependable hours, I would be overjoyed. See if this diverse programming lasts through the summer and into next fall and beyond. One day at a time is the best hope, or, more likely one hour at a time without deadtime.

I have always been a 'smooth jazz' fan, and I accidentally tuned in 102.9, and when my alarm went…read moreoff at 6:00am I thought OMG! That music if so good, and the DJ's voice was just as good as the music....and no constant interruptions! What a great way to start my day! I didn't get out of bed till the music stopped (it was actually the alarm that stopped, but I just turned it back on) Kudos for the great music choices, and its bye, bye 88.5! Katye

This station is great! Has a local South Sound feel and is based right out of Tacoma. It is family…read morefriendly. You will see the staff out in places like Shelton, Olympia, etc.

I went to BTC. In the way back machine when times were rocking in the free world. This station is…read moreno longer at Bates as it was sold. I really loved that radio station. We were the wheels of rock n roll!

OK, I'm biased because I have a show on KAOS - No Talking Heads, Sundays at 5pm. We do a review of…read morethe weeks news, starting local and expanding out to regional, statewide, national and global news. Amazing schedule that probably holds something for everyone. Check it out at kaos.evergreen.edu. 89.3FM

Love all of the folks on this station. I wish they could put out…read morea stronger signal as I lose it going into downtown Tacoma, but other than that it beats the other stations from Seattle by a ton!!

Country Music for the South Sound! KAYO 96.9FM is broadcasting from the Olympia,WA area and plays…read moremostly Country Music from the 1990's but does play some newer Country songs. Very good morning show, and probably the best Country Music station around!

I love KMIH 89.9 FM "The Bridge." Their over-the-air signal doesn't reach very far, but I can hear…read morethem in the car on Mercer Island and around south Lake Washington. Sometimes I stream them at home on my phone or laptop at 889thebridge.org. The on-air hosts, who I presume are high-school students, sound young and enthusiastic, and they seem to play a variety of music from various decades. Like a breath of fresh air after listening to commercial FM for a while.

What is the call sign.. most unprofessional Yelp page I've ever seen and I can't even tell if the…read moremusic is good or bad LOL