Hey kids,

I would like to hijack this post to say, Hunt Down you're local college stations!! People often over look the abundance of free-platform radion that's available to them by way of college (and sometimes even high-school) radio, especially in more metropolitan areas!!

To find: "Seek" to you highest strong radio signal, 107.5 or similar, and then "Tune" all the way through to the lowest strong FM signal and save stations along the way. I do this in every town/city that I spend any measurable amount of time in and I'm nearly always delighted surprised. Yes, even NPR and the jazz stations are solid, but there are often many more!

Bonus: If you stumble into NJ/NY here are some goodies: 88.3 (jazz 88, get that knowledge of the classics you didn't know you needed), 88.7 (Rutgers college, Free-platform music, sometimes Rutgers sports team games on weekends), 89.5 (Seton Hall "Pirate" Radio, metal punk, free-platform), 89.9 (Mostly NPR/Jazz), 90.3 (Piscataway Highschool, sponsored by Rutgers, Free-platform), 90.7 (Fordham University, folk/rock/folk-rock) Irish Trad and Reggae on weekends!!), 91.1 (if it comes in, free -platform), 91.5 (morning show during week is usually a nice mish-mosh of new and upcoming bands), 91.9 (when it comes in, free-platform), 93.9 (NPR, all things considered, etc)...oh and if you want some more avant garde Princeton, at least used to be higher up on the dial at 103.3. Phew that's just one-ish state worth of awesome "non-commercial" music and radion program to enjoy!! Anyone else care to share?

TL;DR; For more great free-platform radio, plug through the low end of the dial, enjoy the splendor of college radio.