Stupid radio station

[Jason13]

I was just on my way home from somewhere and I heard The Lighthouses Tale come on the radio so I turned it up and then the DJ cuts in and says, what would you like to hear? and then I hear my voice say Nickel Creek. The radio station has something called the all request nooner for the noon hour and I called in to hear This Side on Friday! The DJ said he would play it. I listened over 3 hours after I requested friday and it didn't play. S today the DJ played The Lighthouses Tale and cut me off saying This Side. I thought it was stupid I request a song Friday, they play it today (Wednesday) but cut off the song I request and play a different song. I have nothing against the song Lighthouses Tale, it is one of my favorite NC songs, but I just moved and can't find my This Side CD so I want to hear that song BAD!!!! But it still is nice hearing NC on the radio :D

[Adyn]

Ack! You lost it? I would be at the store purchasing copy #2 in a heartbeat! [lloll] I am rather addicted, I must say ;) Besides, it'd help record sales, hehehe. Good luck! Too bad about the radio... I think I have heard WYCBD once on the radio here... which is too bad. I have yet to hear This Side on the radio, no one ever said the masses have taste, I suppose ;)

[OrnotMajestic]

A few weeks ago they were playing This Side on the main speakers in the local mall....

[kokomo88]

darned you all, they don't play them at all here in boston....too into jammin' and all that junk....no fair!! that's cool though that they are getting airplay, thats wicked cool, they're getting more and more and more popular, but um...not in Boston!!! Lani and I will spread the word bout them!


p.s
( jammin is the hip hop radio station up here 94.5 (it's terrible), not what chris does when he's clucking around on the stage)

[pencefan]

Hey.
You're lucky that your radio station even plays NC. All of the ones where I live only play NC during there countdown. It absolutely SUCKS. I hear them on my NC cds but there's just something better about hearing them on the radio. You get that sense of pride that your favorite band is being heard by all tuned in. These radio stations need to get their acts together and play GOOD music instead of country-pop crap all the time.

[Jimmie]

Radio doesn't play Nickel Creek because they fall through the crack. Even though they've started out in the country market, it's very clear that they are not a country band. They don't sound anything like anyone else in that market.

Similarly, they are completely out of place on a typical rock station, too. This problem has come up for a lot of bands through the years - a good example might be the Roches about 20 years ago, they had the same exact problem.

Radio program directors don't want anything on the air that abruptly changes their sound. They want a steady progression of music that all sounds the same, so that a listener won't be tempted to change the station and miss out on all the commercials. If Nickel Creek doesn't sound like the rest of what's on the radio (thank god), then they are going to have trouble getting played. And that's equally true in both pop and country markets.

For now, you're most likely to find Nickel Creek being played on folk radio shows down in the non-commercial part of the dial, where eclecticism is the norm. In fact, they get played a lot down there. I just checked some statistics and saw that This Side was the number 2 most played album for August. House Carpenter was the most played song.

And in July, it placed in the mid-30s, which is pretty amazing considering that we didn't get radio copies until close to the end of the month.

But it's clear that NC recognizes the problem, and is attempting to move away from the country market and to catch the attention of the rock/pop stations. With luck, they may succeed.

I hope they do succeed. I think NC would be the best thing that happened to pop music in many years.

Jimmie Wilson, WRUW, Cleveland