Radio Without Borders

Philly radio's got a rangy new voice in town.

You want eclectic?  How about the danceable art rock of Glascow's Franz Ferdinand's followed by the raucous Gypsy punk of Gogol Bordello. Muddy Waters's blues followed by Joni Mitchell's "Blue?"

That's what was playing the first time I tuned into Dfireradio, the still-in-beta Internet station from Drexel University's Dragonfire magazine/blog/newspaper. It streams music from the tastes of its editors, producers and reporters. The station has some moves, New Grass Revival into Sufjan Stevens. It's like going into Tower Records and hitting shuffle, or Sirius Disorder on a good day, or that guy down the hall who was working hard not to be figured out. Plans are to add Dragonfire's audio projects - interviews, reports, investigations. They're calling it 360-degree journalism.

To make it work, you should have iTunes or winamp, realaudio, quicktime or xmms. You save the .pls file to your desktop. When you click it, tell it which music player to use, then it streams the must.

Just checked it again. Dean Martin singing "Sway" in a set with Duran Duran, Sleater-Kinney and El Mondil De Carolina. What, no polkas?

I've heard a lot about Dragonfire lately.  there was a piece on whyy *and* wxpn on them and it seems like a cool program.  These kids have *everything* digital, nowadays.  When I was a student a dozen years ago, the dorm had one phone on the entire hall, so needless to say our entire technological paradigm from that era is obsolete.
(p.s.right now on Dragonrire: New Order's Bizarre Love triangle.)