Halcyon Magazine

BY DANIEL HARJU

Mixing rhythm’n'blues with social satire, the Kinks wrote songs that were as quirky as they were brilliant pieces of Marxist commentary. Today, when that unregulated shit of free-market capitalism keeps hitting the fan and more and more people risk loosing all they’ve got, we all need some comforting confirmation of our anxieties. Ey? This might not be a better time for existential reflections than the less turbulent era of yesteryear but this song by Ray Davis can perhaps help us find some solid land to ground our feet on. That Dead End Street the Kinks sung of was located in England, but we all know this place. The video is really great too.

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So, I’m like 10 years (or so) late on this, but what the fuck? I saw Buffalo ‘66 for the first time a few days ago and pretty much Christina Ricci does a tap dance to King Crimson. Like, what? I thought I listened to progressive rock? How could I not know of such genius? I think I’m going to go start a progressive rock dance troupe, but like, its going to be a mix between this and that laser show they used to have at the Griffith Observatory that was set to Pink Floyd and ELP, only my shows are going to have a fog machine and they are only going to be set to King Crimson and I’m not paying Robert Fripp a thing for the use of his music even though its awesome.

As a further sign of the impending Apocalypse as predicted by the Popul Vuh in 2012, Indie 103.1 has now decided to close its doors. Or rather, air their show via extraterrestrial digital waves rather than from a brick-and-mortar FM broadcast station. It is a dark time for good music. Let us rise up despite the dismal times and do our best to create music that shall serve as respite to the hostile and challenging soundscape.

Indie’s goodbye message:

Indie 103.1 will cease broadcasting over this frequency effective immediately. Because of changes in the radio industry and the way radio audiences are measured, stations in this market are being forced to play too much Britney, Puffy and alternative music that is neither new nor cutting edge. Due to these challenges, Indie 103.1 was recently faced with only one option — to play the corporate radio game.

We have decided not to play that game any longer. Rather than changing the sound, spirit, and soul of what has made Indie 103.1 great Indie 103.1 will bid farewell to the terrestrial airwaves and take an alternative course.

This could only be done on the Internet, a place where rules do not apply and where new music thrives; be it grunge, punk, or alternative; simply put, only the best music.

For those of you with a computer at home or at work, log on to www.indie1031.com and listen to the new Indie 103.1 - which is really the old Indie 103.1, not the version of Indie 103.1 we are removing from the broadcast airwaves.

We thank our listeners and advertisers for their support of the greatest radio station ever conceived, and look forward to continuing to deliver the famed Indie 103.1 music and spirit over the Internet to passionate music listeners around the world.