Mostly, I’ve been listening to Sirius XM as we drove down the coast from Seattle to San Diego. Not that satellite radio is so much better than broadcast. I just like to be able to count on having my classical, jazz, and BBC World Service and NPR channels everywhere. As you can see, I don’t follow pop music anymore, haven’t for years. I must say, when I’ve tuned FM radio — for a while in SF, LA, and SD — I’ve been impressed with the technical quality of the sound. I’ve heard nothing fresh in production or personality. Today, we took a drive around SD, and I switched to FM and surfed, looking for something listenable. I settled on a light jazz mix — not “smooth jazz”; this was actual songs played by artists who were actually improvising, not playing SJ’s basic licks on alto sax against electronic piano and synth. The music stopped, and I was hearing a laid-back jock speaking Spanish. A Tijuana jazz station. Which also played Arabic pop, later. And John Mayer. At least it was a fresh mix.
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