If you listen to a noncommercial college radio station long enough, you'll hear a break between songs similar to one I heard tonight. A DJ said, "(So-and-so) and The Birthday Party will perform at...Oh, it's actually (So-and-so's) birthday party, so that's exciting...Let's see...What are we doing next? Meat Puppets?" After a bit of giggling, off-mic conferring with another DJ, and what sounded like a stack of CDs being knocked over, the DJ confirmed that she'd be playing a Meat Puppets track after a track by another band and said, "Thank you for listening."
When I was in college radio, it was in a different era and a different city. It's nice to be reminded, however, that three decades later, the unpolished nature of student-run radio remains the same.
