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...oldies, a touch of Top 40 and a tiny bit of rap. It has surgically removed everything that is annoying about radio. In most markets, Jack is just music--no weather, no traffic, no song IDs--and is completely automated, so there aren't even any wrongheaded DJs to endure. At 1,200 songs, the playlists are three times bigger than average, so it doesn't grate with repetitiveness, and the commercial breaks are noticeably shorter. If families still sat around the radio in happy little nuclear units, they would spend the night rocking out to Jack. In the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: You Don't Know Jack | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

...belt buckle two-stepping his ass off." The pair shared broad musical tastes, became friends and kept in touch, but Coleman rapped mostly at local bars as "a party trick" until 2001, when he quit his job and made two independent albums that left him $25,000 in debt. "DJs would say, 'This is pretty novel, really cool,'" says Coleman of his early efforts. "'But no way is my boss going to let me play it.'" With his consultant job filled, Coleman started working at Foot Locker. He was a few months away from getting a store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of Troy | 5/24/2005 | See Source »

Loud, low, and tumbling, the duo pummels audiences with a variety of noises that are all so disorienting that they find a place all their own, breaking rules for the sake of breaking rules. “We were both DJs on Record Hospital,” says Leanse, referring to Harvard’s own late-night radio show devoted to noise and hardcore b-sides from Korea, and other things you probably haven’t heard...

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: Harvard: School of Rock? | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...concept of more music, fewer commercials and no DJs was birthed in Vancouver, B.C., in 2003 and later spread stateside with the formation of the first Jack FM station, in Denver, in April 2004. Last August, Dallas--Fort Worth radio listeners were baptized in the new Jack format during their 8 a.m. commute, when the former occupant of the dial space, Wild 100.3, suddenly went jockeyless and played a selection of movie theme songs and sound bites that said "Jack." The station ranked 20th in its debut, then skyrocketed to No. 1 four months later. It has been there ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media: Radio's Last Hope? | 5/4/2005 | See Source »

...Auburn St. came alive last Saturday when James F. Collins ’07 and his fellow DJs threw “Signs” by Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake onto the stereo. The infectious hook filled the wooden house and the crowd of kids slumming by the punchbowl finally poured into the main hall to dance...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HRO Comes Alive | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

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