Living in Maine has a lot of downsides, such as annoying weird weather, high taxes, an economy based around potato's( http://boilemmashmem.ytmnd.com/ : just in case your unfamiliar with what potato's are.) among other problem's but there are two things here in Maine that makes dealing with all that almost worth it, yes even dealing with a random snow storm in the middle of June. And the good thing for any of you out there want to enjoy these things even without living in Maine.
These two things are (1) a local radio station named WCYY, and (#2) The local rock scene hear in Maine.
WCYY: This Is a radio station up here in Maine that if you want to check out; you can actually listen to them on the net by going to http://www.wcyy.com/ its an alternative/modern rock station and it plays national and local music as well as new rock and stuff from as far back as the eighties.
I started listening to this station when I got out of the hospital back in 2003; I heard about it from one of the other people there and now I wish I had heard about it sooner. The first song I heard on this station was "What's My Age Again" by Blink 182 which was lucky because I was a huge Blink 182 fan at the time. And at that time - Blink 182 was the only thing I was listening too - So when I heard things like "Incubus" and "3 Doors Down" I was even more drawn in because there was all this great music out there that I had never heard before. I have listen to the station daily ever since.
Anyways enough about me, As for on air personality's they are five at this station and honestly I would never covert to satellite radio if I couldn't listen to any of these guys again. Here is a general description of each person for you.
Robin Ivy - Morning Show
Love listening to Robin in the morning because not only do I need my rock to wake up but she gives me important in site to my oncoming day via my horoscope on "Robin Zodiac Zone." Every hour or so she gives an update on how the stars are going to effect your day - she also briefs you on the color of the day - which is an important part of my day, and she is a killer DJ plays music that goes well together and then blends the good ads in when they need to pay the bills. She also often has a lot of random visitors that make it even more interesting to listen too and if that is not enough, you can call in and get your own personal horoscope for today - and its surprising how good she is at it - I mean she just starts talking to these people and can tell THEM all about their life it is amazing.
Rob- Day Show
Rob runs from early afternoon (Just before lunch time) to five a clock at night - he is hilarious a lot of the time and always has an interesting story to tell you either from his life or from the music world. He Runs two diffrent programs that only he runs which are "Lunch Bunch," which you guessed it (or maybe you didn't) is at lunch and "The Top 5 at 5". The "Lunch bunch is a program that plays exclusively eighty's and ninety's retro rock that is refreshing to hear because most of the stuff you have not heard in a while and rock never goes bad (unless your talking about the song "Video Killed the Radio Star" that thing keeps coming back from the dead even though its way past its expiration date - probably because they met your children wooohoooowoo.) And the Top Five at Five is the Top five requested songs of the day played in reverse order(#5 to #1) and how they determine this is by listeners voting either on the website or via phone (either Text message or Voice message.)
Mark Curdo - Evening Show
Mark Curdo is also hilarious especially when he first gets on and him and Rob are on together. He is also very knowledgeable of the local rock scene; His program runs form 6 to 11 and doesn't have a like daily special program but he does do The Local Music Announcements daily (Rave and Rage) and Weekly does a program called spinout which is exclusively music from the local, Inde and underground markets.
Joey Disco - After Dark with Joey Disco (aka Late Night)
Joey Disco is funny, and has the best music program but unfortunately most people can't listen to him because they are not like me and are like sub-insomniacs. But if you can't stay awake till 11pm you may want to check him out on the Saturday morning recovery program which goes from whenever he gets into the studio till 11AM - he is a great DJ so I indefinitely suggest at least listening to the Saturday morning recovery program.
Jason Stewart - Temp I think random times.
Unfortunately I don't have a lot to say about Jason because the times he is on the air I am busy or getting the limited sleep in that I actually do get. But the few times I have heard him he is really funny. I don't know much about him and can't even cheat off the website because it really doesn't have much on him :(
They have 94 min music marathons that are uninterrupted by commercial breaks and that's a good amount of time in my opinion. They don't plat a real lot of commercials and the ones that they do play aren't bad - I mean they are typically funny, or have some general entertainment value in some way other than the Jolly John Commercials which kind of creep me out or seem to over zealous to me; but all used car dealerships have those kind of commercials.
I mean I know I have pretty unique music taste that they don't play on this station things from like DMX or Snoop Dog - to Steve Burns or They Might be Giants but I am glad that they don't because then they wouldn't be them plus it's great to listen to something because you maybe yearning for something new but not getting it until you start looking for it. Plus they are a modern rock station and if they played any of those artist they wouldn't be really (though the newer "They Might Be Giants" song "I'm Impressed." kinda sounds like something that 9 inch nails did in the past.
And even though they don't play those artist - they do play some amazing artist that I love and wouldn't hear on any other typical rock station such as the, "The Beastie Boys", or "Depeche Mode". Also no one plays as much from the local music scence that this station does - and the Maine local music scene is killer, which brings me to my next subject I wanted to post about
The Maine Local Scene-
I am only going in depth on one group at the moment my absolute favorite local band but they're are many which; you can expect to see more post concerning the local music scene here in Maine and you if you can't wait for me to do that either check out WCYY (Which you should anyways; or go to myspace and search for bands within 50 Miles of the zip code 04043 or within the state of Maine.
But my favorite local band - is indefinitely a band called "HISS & CHAMBERS" which you can check out at their myspace http://www.myspace.com/hissandchambers or at their band website http://www.hissandchambers.com/ (as of right now its under construction. This band has an amazing sound and interesting lyrics my favorite song by them "The Kiss" has such an mesmerizing beat to it that I can just replay it for hours. On their Myspace they also have some remixes to their songs which are pretty kick @$$. This band definitely has the potential to be big if they get enough people listening to them, honestly their music is a lot better than quite a bit of the national based music out there right now.
End Note: As you can see I am definitely CYY
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