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Here's an article on popular radio stations in Sweden:

Radio Stations in Sweden: A Guide to Popular Channels

Sweden is known for its love of music and the country has a diverse range of radio stations that cater to all musical tastes and interests. From pop and rock to jazz and classical, Sweden has a radio station for everyone. Here is a guide to some of the most popular radio stations in the country:

SR P1: This is a public service radio station that focuses on news and current affairs. It has a mix of talk shows, news, and documentaries. SR P1 is popular with those who want to stay informed about the latest news and events in Sweden and around the world.

NRJ: This is a commercial radio station that plays pop music from around the world. It's known for its high-energy music and lively presenters who keep listeners entertained throughout the day.

Bandit Rock: This is a rock music radio station that plays a mix of classic and modern rock music. It's popular with rock music enthusiasts who want to stay updated with the latest rock releases and concerts.

Sveriges Radio P3: This is another public service radio station that focuses on popular music, news, and entertainment. It's known for its lively presenters, entertaining shows, and mix of pop, rock, and dance music.

RIX FM: This is a commercial radio station that plays a mix of pop and dance music. It's popular with young listeners who want to stay updated with the latest chart hits and dance music releases.

Radio Sweden: This is a public service radio station that broadcasts in English. It's popular with foreigners living in Sweden who want to stay updated with the latest news and events in the country.

Jazz FM: This is a radio station that focuses on jazz music. It's popular with jazz enthusiasts who want to stay updated with the latest jazz releases and concerts.

Classic FM: This is a radio station that focuses on classical music. It's popular with classical music enthusiasts who want to stay updated with the latest classical music releases and concerts.

P4 Stockholm: This is a public service radio station that broadcasts local news and events in Stockholm. It's popular with those who want to stay updated with the latest news and events in the Swedish capital.

Radio Viking: This is a radio station that focuses on Swedish folk music. It's popular with those who want to stay updated with the latest folk music releases and concerts.

In conclusion, Sweden has a diverse range of radio stations that cater to all musical tastes and interests. Whether you're a fan of pop, rock, jazz, classical, or folk music, there's a radio station in Sweden for you. So, tune in and enjoy the music!

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Roxette - The Look 1989

"The Look" is a song by pop duo Roxette; Sweden's second-best-selling music act after ABBA. It was released in early 1989 as the fourth single from their second studio album, Look Sharp! (1988). The album was an immediate commercial success in their home country, spending seven weeks at number one on the Swedish Albums Chart. "The Look" was written by Per Gessle as an exercise while learning how to operate the Ensoniq ESQ-1 synthesizer he had recently purchased, using a repeated A–G–D bass line as the song's core. The track's sixteenth-note rhythm was inspired by the work of ZZ Top. The original title was "He's Got the Look", with the lyrics using male pronouns. Gessle said this was done because he initially wanted Marie Fredriksson to sing the track. Both he and EMI Sweden had chosen to highlight Fredriksson as Roxette's lead vocalist. However, when recording the demo, Gessle realised the song "didn't fit her style that well, so I had a go and it sounded OK."

The singles from Look Sharp! at the time were only released in Sweden, Germany and France. However, an American exchange student from Minnesota named Dean Cushman returned from Sweden and gave his copy of the album to his local Top 40 radio station, KDWB-FM in Minneapolis. The station's program director Brian Phillips initially ignored Cushman's request to play a song from the album, leaving the CD unplayed in his office for several weeks. Phillips eventually listened to it after learning Cushman had come to the office requesting the return of his CD. Immediately impressed by the album's opening track, "The Look" was played by the station for the first time on US radio less than an hour later, and the response from listeners was overwhelmingly positive; the station immediately began receiving phone calls to replay the track.

KDWB began distributing the track to their sister radio operations, sending 500 copies to other stations throughout the United States. EMI America promptly signed the duo to a recording contract as a result of the airplay. The label had previously rejected Roxette as "unsuitable for the American market". The song had already entered the top fifty of the Billboard Hot 100 before official promotion began, peaking at number one on the chart eight weeks later. This made "The Look" the third number one single by a Swedish act on the Billboard Hot 100, following Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling" (poll #152) in 1974 and ABBA's "Dancing Queen" in 1976.

The track went on to top the charts in 25 countries. It spent three weeks atop the New Zealand Singles Chart, and six weeks at number one in Australia, where it was certified platinum for sales in excess of 70,000 copies. It also topped the charts throughout Scandinavia. The song spent five weeks at number one in West Germany, and an additional five weeks at number two. It was a massive success in Spain and Switzerland, spending eight weeks at number one in both countries. It reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart.

"The Look" received a total of 80,5% yes votes!

[honeyspawn]

Something that I think is underratedly hilarious about everyone knowing the lyrics to "I'm the Best of You", is that in Killer Track, Needy Beast is a local band. The fact that everyone at this high school, including the Swedish foreign exchange student, knows all the lyrics like its a Taylor Swift song implies either:

1) Everyone in Hatchetfield religiously listens to the local hits radio station

2) In this timeline, Needy Beast is so famous and popular that everyone knows them, so I can only assume Thrash actually went through with his promise to sell his soul to the devil.

And I don't know which of these is funnier to me.

[klanced]

we have joked about MCR keith. we have cried about mitski keith. but i firmly believe the True Keith Music Characterization(TM) is that keith actually has no discernable music identity at all. keith lists his top 5 favorite artists and they're all so completely different in genre and vibe and decade and sometimes even language that you're just like ???????? was this kid synthesized in a swedish lab or something

in my HEART i know that keith has the most eclectic taste in music known to mankind. i think keith grew up in the middle of bumfuck nowhere where his only sources of music were 1) his dad's extensive collection of cassette tapes from the 1970s and 80s (note: keith's dad did NOT carefully curate his collection of cassette tapes, he actually just bought a random box of tapes at a yard sale and then tailored his personality around them accordingly) and 2) their ancient clunky boombox that permanently resided on the wobbly picnic bench behind their house. said boombox specifically picked up only 11 radio stations: 5 different Christian radio stations, 3 stations devoted entirely to Christian country music, 2 stations that played nothing but static, and occasionally, when the stars aligned, whatever music the radio station at the local community college three counties away would play.

[annoyangle]

You know what? It's late, my energy right now can't even go to the anonymous button, so oops. Oh well. I'll deal with consequences later. You probably already know I lurk anyway.

Anyway, speaking of David Lynch, I'm in the mood for some truly weird and freaky things to peruse this weekend myself. Do you have any personal recommendations?

WEIRD AND FREAKY, HUH... HOW ABOUT: 130 WEIRD BUT TRUE FACTS TO KNOW? POP SOME OF THESE ON YOUR FRIENDS AND BLOW THEIR MINDS! OR 25 SPOOKY SCIENCE FACTS! #10's A FAVORITE: 90% OF CELLS IN THE HUMAN BODY AREN'T HUMAN!

CHECK OUT AP NEWS'S "ODDITIES" SELECTION - ALL REAL! NO FAKES!

LEARN ABOUT NUMBERS STATIONS- AND THEN GO LISTEN TO REAL RECORDINGS OF THEM AT THE CONET PROJECT! SPIES AND MILITARY FORCES COMMUNICATE IN CODE OVER ANALOG RADIO - AND IT'S STILL A TRICK IN USE TODAY! YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD SWEDISH RHAPSODY BEFORE, IT'S GOTTEN PRETTY POPULAR AMONG THE ENLIGHTENED.

DIG AROUND ON JEFFIOT'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL - I RECOMMEND CALL OF THE VOID! THERE'S PLENTY OF FUN STUFF THERE TO POKE INTO.

GET INTO DEAD MALLS! JAMESTOWN MALL IS A FUN ONE TO START WITH. IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHERE CAPITALISM LEADS AND HUMAN CIVILIZATION ENDS THIS IS THE WAY! LET SOME BRAVE DOOFUS STUMBLE OVER EXPOSED WIRING, BROKEN GLASS, NAKED REBAR AND BLACK MOLD TO ENTERTAIN YOU! THERE'S TONS OF THESE VIDEOS AND THEY'RE ALL GREAT!

OR GO READ ABOUT THE HIGHWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION MAKING 'EDUCATIONAL' SNUFF FILMS FOR KIDS AND RIDE THAT ""HIGHWAY OF AGONY"" INTO THE AMAZING WORLD OF SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FILMS OF THE 50s-80s! (MANY OF WHICH ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE TODAY, A CHEAP WEIRD HOBBY THAT WILL RETURN MASSIVE DIVIDENDS!) LEARN AND LOVE THE NAMES OF SID DAVIS! CENTRON! CORONET! EB FILMS! YOUNG AMERICA! MCGRAW HILL! IS CORN GRASS? IS GUARDIANA A CHEAP WONDER WOMAN RIP OFF? ANSWER YES!!

THAT OUGHTA KEEP YA BUSY, KID!

[omarera]

I see a lot of confused comments on what “Sommarprat” is. Is it an interview? A podcast? Can you watch it? So, here is some info on what “Sommarprat” is.

It’s so much more than a podcast. It’s Swedish core and has a long tradition and is like it’s own prestigious institution. Sommarprat at the radio station P1 (no you can’t watch it) on Sveriges Radio is broadcasted during every summer on P1 starting at 1:00 p.m. The presenters are specially invited "summer hosts" (or "summer speakers"), who are responsible for each day. They introduce themselves, talk about freely chosen topics and play music of their own choice. The “talk” is 90 minutes including music of the “speakers” choice.

The first show was aired June 29th year 1959 so it has been aired for over 60 year’s. It is a show that I would say most Swedes are aware of and some listen to all episodes. It’s very honorable to be selected and some/many compare it to as it is almost like getting ennobled/knighted due to the honor.

All “talks” are not just aired but also reviewed in media. The ones that get most attention are usually very emotional or surprising showing new sides to a person or when people talk on specific important or fun topics. There is a mix of “speakers”and different storylines over the summer and some are more experts talking on their subject like climate change etc or people picking one topic that has impacted their life as Edvin talked about how YR. It can also be more of a light hearted humor talk people telling anecdotes from their career and life. It can be anything really, but people get to tell their story on something that is important to them in a way they have had the time to prepare to do.

All “speakers” gets a producer that they plan and create the Sommarprat with so they are all usually very well made. So glad Omar got Mark Levengood, perfect match.

[mannymuc]

Radio Pirates of The Baltic Sea in 1965

The Rolling Stones pay a promotional visit to Swedish Radio Ship SYD, which beams pop music and commercials into Scandinavia.

Radio SYD broadcasted until 1966 from the ship Cheeta 2, anchored in international waters near Malmö in Sweden.

(Private commercial radio stations were not allowed in most European countries until the 1970s/1980s)

[asterionhex]

Finding some wild shit on Swedish radio station sites

[penrose42]

One of my comfort pastimes is listening to horror game OSTs and lately I've been delving into both the music and secrets of P.T. since I wasn't really on the pulse when it was in the zeitgeist, and I gotta say I love the implication that either

The Order, which has fully operated a wholeass town and drug ring for years and has worked with government officials, believes the 'War of the Worlds' prank broadcast was real and that their only salvation was their God OR

The 'War of the Worlds' broadcast was real, and it was later placated to be a prank by the successful Martian invaders to subdue any and all resistance while they took over covertly and politically, meanwhile this cult in bumfuck Maine knows somehow.

Regardless this further implies that the Order sent out the radio message in Swedish because they believe Martians can't understand Swedish and that somehow the average American can, or that Martians legitimately cannot understand a lick of Swedish at all and have no means of understanding it faster than the average American, even though the Martians would have regulations over all radio stations and would be able to detect a pirate signal and circumvent it before the whole message would be able to get out if they controlled the government.

I'm just saying I know the Order isn't presented as the most competent group of people on the planet, but for the sake of any and all preservation of face they either gotta be right and playing 4D chess with the Martians or just high as giraffe pussy on their own supply at all times.

[pie-bean]

4, 8, 17, 24, and 99 for Spotify Wrapped!!

Hello! \⁠(⁠ϋ⁠)⁠/⁠♩

4 is Fire Escape by the Sea by Sea Power

8 is The Swedish Rhapsody, a recording of a numbers station collected by The Conet Project (I highly recommend looking them up if you enjoy cold war era radio history, very interesting and a bit unsettling)

17 is Volkiano by Remi Wolf

24 is Who Will Know from the movie Shin Godzilla

99 is Summer Magic by Enjoy Music Club

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 Sure, here is an article about all radio stations in Sweden:

Sweden is home to a wide variety of radio stations, catering to a diverse range of tastes and interests. Whether you're into music, news, sports, or talk shows, there's something for everyone in the Swedish radio landscape.

One of the most popular radio stations in Sweden is Sveriges Radio (SR), a public service broadcaster that operates several channels, each with its own focus. P1 is SR's flagship channel, offering news, current affairs, and cultural programming, while P2 is dedicated to classical music and P3 is focused on contemporary music and youth culture. SR also operates channels like P4, which offers regional news and programming, and SR International, which broadcasts in multiple languages to reach Swedish expats and others around the world.

Another major player in the Swedish radio market is Bauer Media, which operates several popular commercial radio stations. Among them are Mix Megapol, which plays contemporary hits, and NRJ, which specializes in dance and pop music. Bauer Media also owns channels like Rock Klassiker, which features classic rock music, and Svensk Pop, which plays exclusively Swedish-language pop music.

In addition to these larger radio networks, there are also a number of smaller stations that serve niche audiences. For example, Radio Viking broadcasts primarily in the Swedish region of Östergötland, focusing on local news and music. Radio Lidingö, meanwhile, is a community radio station based on the island of Lidingö, near Stockholm.

Many of Sweden's radio stations also offer their programming online, making it easy for listeners to tune in from anywhere in the world. This has allowed Swedish radio to reach a global audience and share the country's unique cultural offerings with people around the world.

Overall, the radio landscape in Sweden is vibrant and diverse, with something for everyone. Whether you're a fan of pop music or classical, news or sports, there's a radio station out there that's sure to satisfy your listening needs. So why not tune in and discover all that Swedish radio has to offer?

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La Squadra's reaction at this year Eurovision's finale:

Risotto ✂️:

He is the type of fan that if his faves aren't even in the top 5, he is not that bothered. He was rooting for Germany, so whoever won wasn't his business. He just hopes in the future there'll be more metal performances, cause he think this genre is VERY underrated

Prosciutto 🍖:

Prosciutto is annoyed af! He had a completely different top 5 in his mind and seeing the results made him chew his bottom lip in frustration, smoke more cigarettes than usual and tap nervously his foot. Sicilian daddy is not happy at all, in his heart Australia won the game... also his gf was rooting for Norway, so no " celebratory s*x " for him tonight, that makes him even angrier lol

Illuso 🔎:

The only one happy cause he was team Israel and Team Sweden, so in the end he is the only one saying " winner winner, chicken dinner ". He has a smug expression on his face and is parading around the lair with the swedish flag around his neck, mocking his teammates like " i told you so~" or " awwww, why so mad? Did you lose? Oh wait, yes~"...He is the absolute worst about it.

Melone 🍈:

He was the only one actually rooting for italy this year lol, you may think is for the song but of course this purple tuscan idiot did it for the meme.

He spent MONTHS since Sanremo joking about stuff like: pesci asking him if he wanted a chip and him answering " SE QUESTA È L'ULTIMAAAAAAAAAAA..." or even making fun of Risotto's sleep habits chanting " TANTO SO CHE TU NON DORMI, DORMI DORMIIII MAIIII!!"

In the end he was kicked out of the lair cause ENOUGH IS ENOUGH MELONE!!

SO yeah, another chill dude who didn't care about the final result, he just wants to annoy people lmao.

Ghiaccio 🧊:

NO NO NO NOOOOOOO!!!

Ok here we have the real deal everyone, Ghiaccio is a BIG eurovision fan and maybe the only one who truly cared about the winner.

He blasted Finland's song while racing with his red Mazda through Napoli yelling " CHA CHA CHA D*IOCANEEEEEEEE!!"

He was even ready to bet about Finland's victory and when he heard the final results...chaos: broken chairs, smashed bottles, angry phone calls to vent about it!!

He even planned to invade Sweden to avenge his green jacket pal, but in the end he'll just curse blasphemies for a week and change the radio station whenever the winning song is put on.

Formaggio 🧀:

You see this? This is the level of support Formaggio had for Croatia. Lil cheese man went in every single bar of Napoli to teach their song and even tried to organise a rave party with a " Tractors " theme!! He felt utterly outraged when he saw the level of " disrespect " ( in his mind of course ) shown to his favourite eurovision's group and now is planning to go to a concert while riding an actual tractor. Is he exaggerated? Yes. Do we love him for this? ABSOLUTELY!!

Pesci 🐟:

This guy drink his " respect women juice " ever since he was a lil kid. His mamma and nonna raised him good, so his goal for eurovision was to support all the women that walked on the stage! He tried to stay neutral and show them all the appreciation they deserved, but 2 of them stole his heart: Lithuania and Portugal. He was so moved bu their songs that tears run down on his face during the performances, in that moment he didn't even cared being the laughing stock and called " una femminuccia ", he just wanted to enjoy those beautiful voices and he did!! He was also really happy about sweden's victory, in the end another great artist was cherished in the difficult music industry.

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

KissFM Flashback: Best of Love 1998 R&B / Adult Contemporary / Pop / Soul / Arena Rock / Pop-Rock

Funny thing about this pretty anodyne and somewhat random assortment of love songs from the Warner Elektra Atlantic catalogue that span between the late 70s and late 90s is that, had you not recognized the radio station logo that's on this album's cover, you'd probably have no idea that this was actually a Finnish release. And that seems to be because of two intertwined things: one, naming your radio station Kiss FM is like the equivalent of naming your American town Springfield; like, I'm pretty sure it's the most popular name for a radio station in the entire world, which also makes it the most generic. And because it's the most generic name for a radio station, it also then makes sense that its own tracklist would not provide a single clue as to where this particular Kiss FM station itself was actually located.

Which I guess just also goes to show how generic the market was overall for one of those hit European radio stations that played a mix of 'the hits from yesterday and today' in the late 90s, because not a single song on this release is actually Finnish-made itself, which would definitely lead you to think that it's not actually Finnish when it so totally is! 

But all that said, despite there not being anything to actually individualize this comp from any other similarly-scoped Euro comp out there, this thing nevertheless still manages to kick itself off with a pair of my all-time favorite big hits of 1996: the terrific Todd Terry remix of Everything But the Girl's "Missing," which was not just undoubtedly that year's single biggest commercial house hit, but was one of its biggest radio hits, period, too; and British one-hit wonder Donna Lewis' dreamy and ever-so-soft disco-pop-slow-dance smash, "I Love You Always Forever," which subtly built up all this tension with an unwavering bassline chug that smacked of the stuttering opening seconds from Survivor's own "Eye of the Tiger," and then suddenly released it all with a much louder and very catchy bridge that was outfitted with some handclaps and sharp, rich, and powerful keyboard chords. Sounds like a ballad that Cyndi Lauper might've made had she been born a decade later, and to that same end, a really lovely tune.

And another thing you might be interested in is that if you wanna hear iconic Swedish teen pop producer Max Martin's signature mid-to-late 90s sound applied to something before he managed to launch the Backstreet Boys into the stratosphere himself, there's Papa Dee's euro-reggae-pop cover of P.P. Arnold's "The First Cut Is the Deepest," which has that same smack-clappy backbeat sound that would define much of BSB's own output. Not gonna say that I particularly enjoy this song at all, but it's still intriguing to hear the Martin sound on something else prior to BSB.

And lastly, we have Lutricia McNeal's largely forgotten cover of Barbi Benton's "Ain't That Just the Way." If you dig that softly bouncy, hip hop-laced contemporary R&B sound of the mid-to-late 90s that made the careers of people like Mary J. Blige, Brandy, and Monica, this Oklahoma City native who ended up launching her career in Sweden and scoring this hit there is a good one too. After hitting big in Europe, "Ain't That Just the Way" crossed over here into the States and achieved moderate success as well, and while it never ended up earning itself the Grammy-winning plaudits of something like The Fugees' Lauryn Hill-led cover of Roberta Flack's own Grammy-winning "Killing Me Softly with His Song," I happen to think that the two tunes dovetail pretty perfectly with each other as 1996 R&B companions 👍.

So, a pretty lame Finnish comp of love songs with most of a selection that could fool anyone into thinking that it actually came from any one of a number of stations named Kiss FM in America instead, but nevertheless, some great intercontinentally popular hits from 1996 on here anyway 😌.

Highlights:

Everything But the Girl - "Missing (Todd Terry remix)" Donna Lewis - "I Love You Always Forever" Simply Red - "If You Don't Know Me By Now" Lutricia McNeal - "Ain't That Just the Way" Mr. Big - "To Be With You" Damn Yankees - "High Enough"

[arcticdementor]

The Iditarod arch has greeted Iditarod Trail race finishers for the past quarter-century. It collapsed the week before my arrival in Nome, Alaska. Wood rot, according to the local paper. Surveying the town center, it is tempting to see the collapse as a metaphor for an isolated northwestern Alaska town facing the cumulative impacts of outmigration, declining birth rates, and climate change. Dilapidated, single-story wooden homes with cluttered lawns scatter the snow-covered landscape (it was 20 degrees Fahrenheit when I visited in early May). Some wooden facades still resemble Old West saloons, suggesting Nome’s origins as a 19th century Gold Rush town, as if Tombstone had been transposed just 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Its face set toward the frozen Bering Sea, Nome felt unwelcoming when I arrived, out of season from the hustle and bustle of the famous Iditarod race. Appearances can be deceiving, though. If Nome seemed forbidding to me as an outsider from the Lower 48, its denizens and regular visitors were extremely welcoming. The next day, I met with Amanda Van Vliet-Snyder outside of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, where she is the pastor. Originally from California, she moved there six years ago with her husband, an Alaska Native from a small village 200 miles away, north of the Arctic Circle. Exchanging texts with Van Vliet-Snyder before my flight from Anchorage, I learned that her husband, Jordan Snyder, was also on my small commuter plane. When I found him in the waiting area, he told me he was headed home from a family member’s graduation. As we were speaking, the graduate in question passed behind us on a moving walkway, and the cousins exchanged friendly, casual greetings. He told me this kind of encounter is common, since in Alaska flying is a fact of life. Nome is only reachable from other parts of Alaska via plane, which cultivates a friendly atmosphere between staff and regulars at Nome’s tiny airport, and makes you realize the TV show Northern Exposure was probably closer to life than many viewers may have appreciated. Jordan drove me to my hotel, giving me an informal tour of Nome’s landscape and local characters on the short drive. Despite its unique history and atmospheric surroundings, in many ways, Nome is any other small town. But the remoteness is still an issue for many. “A lot of congregations are just feeling, I think, kind of frustrated that there’s no pastors that want to stick around,” said Van Vliet-Snyder, “because it’s not really an easy place to live.” She pastors a small congregation, and a big part of her job consists of traveling to the remote places, like the fishing island of Shishmaref, that lack pastors of their own. It’s challenging work, complicated by a larger dwindling of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) nationwide. The situation is a far cry from the denomination’s heyday in Nome, although a Lutheran legacy remains in two visible Nome institutions: the Lutheran Church and Christian radio station KICY.

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The Lutherans were one of several Christian denominations tapped by Jackson to bring Christianity and traditional American values to Alaska Natives. “Carved up” is an often-used phrase to describe Jackson’s attempted cultural overhaul of the territory, but it’s hard to think of anything more apt. A map from Jackson’s tenure, included in a congressional report from Alaska on his reindeer scheme (of which, more to come), illustrated how different denominations had different areas of responsibility. The Swedish Lutherans had Nome, with Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Swedish Evangelicals operating in the territory right next door. The Episcopalians were even farther north, and the Moravians a few hundred miles to the south in the Yukon Delta. Since the relationship between religious indoctrination and public education was more porous back then than it is today, it is perhaps unsurprising that a general agent for education would concern himself with this sort of thing. What may be less intelligible is why this information was included in a congressional reindeer report, or what a congressional reindeer report was supposed to be.

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When he arrived in Unalakleet, Karlsson had already done a stint in Central Moscow Prison after a failed attempt to convert Russia. His presence in the Native Alaskan village on the Bering Sea was the consequence, a second foray into bringing Pietism to Russia, this time working westward beginning with Indigenous Siberians. But Karlsson soon switched his focus to Indigenous Alaskans after hearing there was a need for missionaries there. He had a rocky start, but Karlsson soon managed to establish a school for Native children (“the children all got new names and clean clothes and promised to wash their faces each morning,” Karlsson wrote in his journal on the first day of class). He was joined by more missionaries two years later, who helped establish a children’s home, and Karlsson started to garner financial support from Mission Covenant Church leaders in the United States. Karlsson’s missionary still faced challenges: financial challenges in the form of a depression in the Lower 48, theological challenges from the long-present Russian Orthodox Church, and moral challenges from the Gold Rush boom in Nome. Since the discovery of gold in the late 1890s, the population of 200 had ballooned by a factor of 100 by 1901. No less a personage than Wyatt Earp soon established a saloon in Nome to accompany the various other bars and brothels that had sprung up there to serve the new clientele. All the same, Karlsson’s efforts bore fruit. “In 1890, there probably was not a single Christian Inupiaq Eskimo,” according to a 1994 essay by anthropologist Ernest S. Burch Jr. “Twenty years later, there was scarcely an Inupiaq who was not a Christian.”

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While KICY reached the original Covenant missions that Karlsson and his successors had established, their signal also reached hundred miles away. Indeed, the U.S. government received a letter from the Soviet government complaining about KICY, which indicated to the ECC missionaries that they had finally attained Karlsson’s dream of evangelizing Russia. But devotional programming was only one part of KICY’s mission. At the time it was founded, many villages still lacked private home phones; it was not uncommon for a village to have one public phone for everyone. A nightly program called the Ptarmigan Telegraph became a vital communication link. According to the book on KICY’s history of the same name, “The Ptarmigan Telegraph (pronounced ‘tarmigan’) invited listeners to call or write in messages for family members, work colleagues, or distant relatives. These brief comments would then be read on the air so that the intended recipient would hear and respond in an appropriate manner.” The news and weather updates meant that, according to author Greg Asimakoupoulos, “[f]or the first time, listeners had up-to-the-minute forecasts and warnings of approaching storms, severe temperature drops, and low-pressure fronts moving in from the Bering Sea.” In a place scattered with remote villages where transportation was a challenge, such information could mean the difference between life and death.

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But the ELCA still has clergy, and a tech evolution in rural Alaska 2023 has complicated their mission. That’s when Starlink first appeared in the state and in 2021, Alaska’s largest telecommunications company brought fiber internet to Nome. Until recently, provider caps on data usage were common in rural Alaska. As broadband access has increased and data limits have decreased, Van Vliet-Snyder told me how technology has created challenges as she works to bring up the next generation in the faith. She said that she had had to cancel the church’s summer camp this year, which she estimated has been running for about 60 years, when the church recognized Nome’s young people were underoccupied in the summer. The church purchased some land near Salmon Lake, Alaska, to start a youth camp. “Gorgeous place,” Van Vliet-Snyder said, where she had led a junior high camp and a high school church camp the previous summer. She brought the weeklong junior high and high school church camps back in 2023, after COVID suspended them in 2020. But something was different. At one time, the church had attracted kids and pastors from around the Seward Peninsula. But Van Vliet-Snyder said that she partnered with only one other pastor for the revived camp, and he in turn could wrangle just two adult chaperones. She ended up calling her own husband in a panic to take time off work and come lend a hand with the logistics of feeding and entertaining the campers. “The thing was, the kids didn’t want to be there,” she said. “The kids that were from villages that have technology were so bored. Because our camp has no electricity, no running water, no cell, you know, no data, no Wi-Fi.” A proposed Alaskan baseball game deteriorated into a fight for the limited outlets to plug in their devices. “They all refused to get out of the car,” Van Vliet-Snyder said. “They all had their devices loaded up, and they all downloaded stuff that they can do online.” A trip to some nearby hot springs didn’t yield much more interest. By contrast, she said, the kids without electronics “were having a grand old time.”

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KICY General Manager Patty Burchell sees it differently. “Radio is still king here,” she said. “For six weeks of the summer, people are out at their fishing camps. So the culture here is still very much subsistence.” Shipping costs drive up prices in rural Alaska, and according to the state’s labor statistics, unemployment in the Nome census area in July 2023 was 6.8%, almost twice the national average. Because locals in the region still augment their groceries with seasonal fishing, moose hunting, and even berry picking, they still rely on radio when they go out. Internet is “spotty” (a truth I can personally verify), and a 2023 Federal Communications Commission report stated that Alaska ranked 55th out of 56 states and territories in broadband availability coverage for fixed and mobile service, even after a 2016 FCC program to expand broadband access over 10 years. And while more people in and around Nome are adopting Starlink, it can be expensive to get started. According to a 2023 Nielsen study, Alaska remains one of the top AM-listening states in the nation, ranking seventh for its percentage of AM radio listening. Although Burchell said there is a radio “on the table in every home,” KICY also broadcasts online, as well as over AM and FM channels. It is one of two radio stations in Nome (the other, KNOM, is affiliated with Catholic missionary work), and it operates out of a small, unassuming building, not far from the World’s Largest Gold Pan at the center of town. KICY is no longer staffed by career missionaries as it was at its founding. Today, the station is operated by part-time staff and by volunteer missionaries who raise their own support to come work there, usually for one year. Covering the Iditarod race is a big part of their job, but so is Native-language programming featuring locally produced Native singing, and a Russian-language program that reaches Siberia.

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But Joseph is not that different from other young adults from the Lower 48. A conference on outmigration from the state at University of Alaska Anchorage concluded that the state’s demographic problem isn’t young people leaving the state, but that the ones who leave aren’t adequately replaced by new arrivals in their 20s and 30s. Research chief at the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development Dan Robinson said that for the past 12 years, more people have left Alaska than moved in, something he said was unprecedented. Some of the demographic change is due to college-age Alaskans opting to attend college in the Lower 48. But Robinson thinks there are other factors keeping young people from moving to Alaska—a reduced military population at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, for one thing. The other factor is less quantifiable—“Alaska is an adventurous kind of place,” Robinson said. It would appear that the call of the wild that has long beckoned young people north no longer holds the same allure.

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The Seward Peninsula Indigenous culture “just loves music, loves singing,” said Burchell, “And from the early days translated hymns into their language, as well as created their own music, sacred music.” Even today, she said musical get-togethers still happen in the spring, “when a village will invite the three or four surrounding villages and anybody else who wants to come, to come in for a weekend of teaching, Bible teaching, and testimony, and song.” These gatherings occur in late winter and early spring, when longer days and a hard snowpack makes snowmobile travel over the hundreds of miles between villages doable. In the summer, there are no roads, and around the Norton Sound, there are no rivers to facilitate travel. Burchell said KICY sends representatives to record the testimonies and music for later broadcast, and a remote unit to broadcast the evening services live. The hymns, many of which are translated into Native languages, have a unique sound all their own. Burchell describes it as reminiscent of Southern gospel with a “distinct flavor.” Southern gospel is popular and in heavy rotation at KICY, she said. But Van Vliet-Snyder said there is little in the way of syncretic pre-Christian practice mixed with Christian worship at her church. It is a legacy of Sheldon Jackson’s twin senses of cultural supremacy and agrarian paternalism. Unlike the Russian Orthodox Church’s earlier presence in Alaska, which was a more-or-less organic process that embraced cultural syncretism, the Lutheranization of the Seward Peninsula had a more compulsory edge. Van Vliet-Snyder’s husband told me that his own last name, Snyder, was given to his Native Alaskan forbears by missionaries.

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Her challenge, however, is not to present herself as a new kind of progressive white savior, a 21st-century Sheldon Jackson trying to reform the Indigenous people according to her own view of what right looks like. “Who am I to come in and say, ‘Let’s look at your Native values, and then look at what the missionaries were teaching you back then, and then look at how they came in and completely changed the way you think’”? said Van Vliet-Snyder. “How can I be a learner? How can I not be seen as, ‘There’s just another white person who’s going to come and tell us about her white Jesus.’” She says her congregation post-COVID is only about 40 people, and “the next generation of kids, they’re like, ‘eh, whatever.’” But she said it’s still the place Native Alaskans turn for funerals or in an emergency, and Our Savior’s Lutheran Church is a popular place of worship for local Native Alaskans on Christmas Eve. “They still see that as their church,” said Van Vliet-Snyder, “even if we don’t see them every week.”

[lboogie1906]

Albert Ayler (July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer, and composer.

He studied at the Academy of Music in Cleveland with jazz saxophonist Benny Miller. He played the oboe in high school. His understanding of bebop style and mastery of standard repertoire earned him the nickname “Little Bird”, after Charlie “Bird” Parker.

He began playing bar-walking, honking, R&B-style tenor with blues singer and harmonica player Little Walter, spending two summer vacations with Walter’s band. He joined the Army, where he switched from alto to tenor sax and jammed with other enlisted musicians, including tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine. He played in the regiment band, along with future composer Harold Budd. He was stationed in France, where he was exposed to martial music which would be a core influence on his work. He tried to find work in Los Angeles and Cleveland, but his increasingly iconoclastic playing, which had moved away from traditional harmony, was not welcomed by traditionalists.

His recording career began, leading Swedish and Danish groups on radio sessions and jamming as an unpaid member of Cecil Taylor’s band. (long-rumored tapes of him performing with Taylor’s group were released by Revenant Records, as part of a 10-CD set.) The album My Name Is Albert Ayler is a session of standards recorded for a Copenhagen radio station with local musicians including Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and drummer Ronnie Gardiner, with him playing tenor and soprano on tracks such as “Summertime”. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[coolblackmetal666]

Long rambling story, sorry

When I was in my early teens, I was such a music snob. I mean, I still am, but not to the same extent.

Like, in Sweden, we have commercial radio and government owned radio. Those are the only two options. Commercial radio has ad breaks and only play big hits. The only station to play indie and alternative music is the government owned P3.

Nobody listens to radio anymore, but back then I was SUCH a fiercely loyal P3 listener and felt like superior to everyone else because they maybe thought that the commercial channels were the cool channels and the government owned one was too "socialist" or whatever, but I knew. I knew what the actual cool channel was lol. Like, you got really cool swedish indie artist that were played only there and not anywhere else in the world. I thought it was so awesome.

In the early 2010s, radio started playing this song called "Du Måste Flytta På Dig" by Alina Devecerski. She was only ever a one hit wonder, but for like an entire spring and summer, her one hit was EVERYWHERE. I've later found out that this song was a big hit in the entirety of Scandinavia, not just Sweden. It was huge.

It was basically this pulsating, uptempo electronic song about how much better she was than some other person. Like, very much a "you suck, I'm the shit" kind of anthem.

Again, this was a huge song and I fucking hated it. Because, on P3, they played this really cool, hip indietronica duo who's songs I really, really liked and I particularly liked one song of theirs that was basically the exact same vibe as "Du Måste Flytta På Dig" but, imo, a thousand times better. But only P3 played that song and that made me so frustrated, that Alina Devecerski could completely dominate the airwaves like that with the clearly inferior song. Nobody paid attention to cool indie music like me, and that was so, so sad.

Anyways, that cool indietronica duo was Icona Pop and the song was I Love It. Lmao.