My goal is to stay off the phone.\u00c2\u00a0 But on one especially boring call, I clicked on the radio stations in iTunes, something I haven’t done for years, and discovered RadioIO Folk.<\/p>\n
I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a yearning for songs.\u00c2\u00a0 And intimacy.\u00c2\u00a0 And I find just about each and every cut on this station not only listenable, but fulfilling.<\/p>\n
Googling RadioIO I found out it was a complete service, a competitor to both satellite and Slacker and others I guess I haven’t yet discovered.\u00c2\u00a0 How these companies all plan to make a profit, I don’t know.\u00c2\u00a0 But I will tell you this, if there’s a future for radio, it will not be the Pandora\/LastFM model, it will be tracks handpicked by humans, like RadioIO.<\/p>\n
Radio isn’t an endless string of songs interspersed between commercials.\u00c2\u00a0 Radio needs to be a religion if it is to survive.\u00c2\u00a0 It can’t be the only alternative in the car, it no longer is, it’s got to be something people WANT to listen to.\u00c2\u00a0 And I’m even enduring the commercials on RadioIO Folk to hear what they’re playing, to see what the deejay has in store.<\/p>\n
Today’s big winner is the Weepies’ "Orbiting".\u00c2\u00a0 You can hear it here: <\/p>\n
\nOrbiting<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nAlso, RadioIO has made me a Ray LaMontagne fan, someone who I actively hated previously.\u00c2\u00a0 Incredible, if you think about it.\u00c2\u00a0 As opposed to being harangued by his followers, just hearing "Winter Birds" and other cuts on this streaming station converted me<\/p>\n
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