Archive for September, 2004

New New Releases - U2, REM, Tears for Fears and more…

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

Please take a look at this post in our listener forum to find out about 14 new songs added to our new releases category after midnight last night.
http://80sxchange.com/forums/showthread.php?p=469631#post469631
We’re still trying to find a new Duran Duran song that someone might actually like…
-pjc

The Quest for Vertigo

Sunday, September 26th, 2004

While U2 officially released their new single, “Vertigo” late last week, best of luck to any U2 fan hoping to buy it. We spent the better part of our afternoon at the local (Exclusive Co.) and chain record stores (Best Buy & Sam Goody) attempting to find this CD single but to no avail. […]

Johnny Ramone Dies at 55

Thursday, September 16th, 2004

After losing Joey in 2001 and Dee Dee in 2002, the music world lost another important brother Wednesday afternoon when Johnny Ramone lost his five year battle with prostate cancer. His true name, John Cummings, was not known to most. What he is known for is being a founding member of the Ramones […]

I just killed “Mickey”…

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004

Toni Basil’s “Mickey” is purely an annoying song. The video for Mickey is the one of the cheesiest to come from the 80’s. Maybe that’s good for some people and bad for others. Ultimately, I couldn’t stand hearing it on our station any longer. For some reason I’ve got no problem with […]

And the Winner is…

Sunday, September 12th, 2004

We would like to thank EVERYONE who stopped by our little booth at Chilimania on Saturday. It was really amazing to meet so many people so excited about a station dedicated to the 1980’s. We hope a few of you will check out our new radio station and become regular listeners.
Those of […]

A New Transmitter was just sent out…

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

Be sure and check your email if you’ve subscribed to the Transmitter. The September issue just went out, so if it doesn’t show in your normal mailbox, look for it in your junk mailbox!
Patrick

New Streaming Server Location

Friday, September 3rd, 2004

As mentioned earlier in the day, this afternoon we moved the stream server from the garage off-site to an actual hosted location with redundant bandwidth and redundant power. http://www.mia.net
More importantly, we should have zero drop-outs from this point on. I know I’ve said that before, but now that we’re paying an extra $100 […]