Truly a sad day. I need a way to stream web music in my car now.

I hereby renounce terrestrial radio and its mind numbing commercial laden pop crack. Viva el independiente! Thank God I have Sirius…

KXLU in Los Angeles plays newer, weirder, edgier music than Indie 103 almost every hour of the week.

DJs like Jonesy (Steve Jones of Sex Pistols) and all the others and their unique programs are what made Indie what it was. They will not be online so I’m done. It’s so sad.

kxlu is a million times better, thank goodness indie 103 is gone

Bummer – This usually means that the parent company will be selling the signals (103.1) or changing the format to a more profitable format, while keeping a jockless version of the original station going on the internet. WLIR in NY did this too, as did Y100 in Philly. Both faded away. At least there is still WRNR-103.1 in the Baltimore / Washington area. They are online with the actual station too and are equally as good, if not better, than Indie 103.1. WRNR.com if you want to hear for yourself…

I literally wanted to cry! is there anything we as listeners, who tune in to stations OR NOT, can do about this??? i’m boycotting the 103.1 station as soon as INDIE is gone. INDIE SHOULD STAY!! why don’t the other crap pop stations go??? we need the indie revolution!

hahaha…loves it. kxlu rages harder on any given day. “indie” 103 raped kxlu’s programming from day 1. too bad so sad.

Call me crazy but I liked “the version of Indie 103.1 we are removing from the broadcast airwaves.” They were bringing forward some music that was new and that you don’t get to hear on the radio such as “Amazing Baby” and the new Prince album. I enjoyed their radio shows as well. Sad to see it go because KROQ is terrible.

Indie leaving really bummed me out. What is even worse is that they are replacing it with a rumba salsa station. Like LA doesn’t have enough of those already. I think this has something to do with it’s owner ClearChannel’s financial problems.

The Indie morning show was a staple of my every day life. Today, I literally mourn the station’s passing and curse my company’s policy to block streaming media webpages. What am I supposed to replace it with? KROQ? :::scoff:::

Anyone know if Jonesys Jukebox will still be on? I am sad, good stations in LA are going bye-bye.

Personally I hope they do well in the web-only format. Hopefully they have the listenership and staying power to make it work

WOXY went web only a few years back, ran some funding hiccups that forced them off the air, lala.com got in the mix and they’ve been going strong ever since. They do have an HD channel on WVXU in Cincinnati. I’ve gotten over that “not being able to listen to it in the car” phase. I download the podcasts and that’s how I get my fix in the car.

Best of luck. Indie rock fans in Ohio are behind you!

At least i have KXLU. Wait no i don’t. Where I’m located the frequency is picked up by Lord Almighty Radio. Damn this city. Crappy traffic and crappier music. At least the beaches are nice and burritos are tasty. In a way I’m not sorry to see it go. Like a grandparent slipping into senility, the stations character has quickly eroded over the past year. Im experiencing a weird emotion right now. Last time I felt this way was…..well, i guess it was when Travis killed Old Yeller in that soul crushing Disney flick of my youth. Indie, you are my Old Yeller. I pray that you give birth to a puppy.

On a side note, Henry Rollins and Harmony in my Head will be greatly missed.

best thing to happen to indie! they got to the point of having MGMT and CSS in hourly rotation – sheesh bury the disco!

hey, great job with bowing out of the “corporate game” brah! keep it INDIE! stick it to the MAN! if you’re so INDIE why don’t you go KEEP IT REAL in your mom’s basement on the HAM radio, or wait, howabout the INTERNET??

I am so sad. ‘Jonesy’s Jukebox’ was the best radio show I’ve ever heard. And I’ve loved/listened/studied a lot of radio shows my whole life. This is terrible. I think it’s finally hitting me after a couple hours of shock and the tears are coming. My only hope is that Steve gets to do the same show on another station.

Yeah, KXLU and the rest of the college radio in LA is solid, but try to pick up any of them more than about 10 miles from the station! And, while eclecticism is an important part of college radio’s mission, sometimes I just don’t want to listen to opera. This is really a bummer.

So, so sad to see indie go…and yeah KXLU is great in the 2 places in LA where you can pick up the frequency.

I was crushed this morning to learn that Indie was going off the air and exclusively online only. One of the first commercials that I heard on Indie 5 years ago was that they were giving your iPod a run for it’s money. To bad I have to resort back to listening to my iPod all the time because there is no way I am listening to KROQ, they just plain suck.

Dark day for LA. Mr. Shovel better make something happen and get on another frequency. The 103.1 frequency sucked anyways – you couldn’t even get reception in the valley.

Its ok, they just need to pull a few connections to feature Indie 103.1 on an iphone (3G), and voila – you’ll have the station in your car again or portability anywhere you go.

Last.FM and Pandora is doing this as well as a number of station. FM has been pointless for a while now.

I already desperately missed Joe Escalante in the mornings, but at least I just bought a new car so I no longer have to rock the cassettes in place of Indie.

Listen to 87.9 FM in S.F., L.A., and Berlin.
Pirate Cat Radio
piratecatradio.com
F eatured in the SF Chronicle.

Friday Mornings 8am – Noon
W/ Casey and The Notorious B.A.G.

yeah, cause i REALLY needed to hear morrissey and u2 and MGMT and bloc party 15 more times. they played fucking RAPE ME by nirvana at least once a day too. like any of those bands need anymore money. indie103 can suck my dick, good riddance.

What would be way cooler is INDIE 103.1 does a complete takeover of Alt-Nation on Sirus/XM. Alt-Nation sucks ever since they took over Ethel when the merger of XM & Sirus happend. Oh well, I can only dream of what ifs.

This sucks, I drive around all day in oc.
I wouldn’t even know half of the bands i listen to now if it weren’t for indie. KXLU must be great but we don’t get that down here. Maybe I should move to LA but then again I don’t wanna live in the shitpile that is LA.

Umph!

Suits!

RIP to the best station in the country. Just shows how much my hometown lacks, now add this to the list. Guess I’ll have to get an I-phone now to listen in the car.

I never understood why, outside of the Jonsie, H Rollins and a few other shows, why INDY had to go and pretty much parrot KROQ, that is, Kevin Weatherly’s playlist. He really sucks. I mean, i never heard of half those “new” artists, cuz they were the kind that never started out on college radio. Seems like daddy purchased thier record contract. You can’t call yourself INDY then play Blink 185 and Limp Bisquit 3/4ths of the day. They should of just gone all way and play the LEGIT “indy,” band that were pretty much ghettoized and played after 8pm. I mean, haven’t more people heard of the FALL and new artists like FUCK BUTTONS than the crappy major label cut outs?

I guess the lesson is, if a station PLAYS commericials, ultimatley it plays music that sounds good b’tween ‘em. Having ANY commercial radio on is like having the TV blarring in the background. It’s for people who don’t make music primary in their life.

Peter Choyce, KXLU dj (yes, 88.9 in LA and worldwide KXLU.com)

I’ll be having an on-air party tomorrow (friday) morning to celebrate the death of this lame beast.

Jonesy ripped KXLU’s Punk Rock Lunch hard, often not even bothering to change the order of the songs in the set.

Party with me tomorrow 6-10am on KXLU. The ONLY independent rock station in LA.

Love,
The International Voice of Reason

I knew they were going downhill when they started to play Veruca Salt’s “Seether” a couple of times every morning. What is this, a 90’s nostalgia station? At least they’re out of their misery now.

The station that gave us Camp Freddy, say no more.

This is horrible news. LA can’t seem to hold onto an interesting/cutting edge station. Indie played so many bands before anyone else. MGMT, Cold War Kids, Airborne Toxic Event, Xu Xu Fang, Amazing Baby were all heard on Indie first…then a month later on KROQ.

I think Xu Xu Fang would tell you that KXLU has been playing them since…1999?

Indie 103 didn’t break ANY BAND. Stop fooling yourselves…

Uhm, they were in 38th place in the local ratings. They didn’t “abandon” the airwaves, they got fired. They were fired because they didn’t have a station that anyone wanted to listen to. But don’t worry- if you miss Steve Jones’ full 8-second silent pauses that seemed to happen four times a minute, you still have the internet.

Which hosts everything else that 100 people or less give a shit about.

indie was indeed a great station and i have a few friends who work on the Metal show for KXLU and even they admit that for the music they played it was a solid station…anyway here goes the man you guys can write to for the station being taken down

Jeffery Liberman
President, Radio Division
Entravision Communications Corporation (owners of 103.1)
jliberman@entravision. com

Tell him what you think!

It’s only starting to dawn on me how much I actually listened to Indie. True, KCRW is good, when it’s on, and when it isn’t Tom friggin Schnabel or the Tuesday night town meeting. But Indie was always on, always good, lots of cool shows, Jonesy, Henry Rollins…truly the coolest station LA has had in the 12 years I’ve lived here. I have no idea how I’m gonna keep up with the funky new music. I feel pretty lost. I’m totally bummed. Oh well, at least there’s the Internet, even though there’s no DJ’s and I can’t listen in my car… crap.

what am I going to listen to know when I go to sleep? Dave Navarro with Dark Matter, Suicide Girls Radio, Dj Paul V with Neon Noise on Saturdays, and in the Mornings? I was just getting used to TK in the mornings… Harmony in my head? Passport Approved on the weekends?… oh so much more… not even to mention Jonesys Jukebox!…. LA radio just lost another great iconic station to total crap… I’m disgusted

I’m sad, I have nothing left to listen to… LA radio is dead to me

Good radio is so rare. Not that Indie was perfect. How could it be? It’s a subjective medium. But Jonesy’s Jukebox alone made it the best station in the country – for me at least.

And it wasn’t JUST the music he played – the most ridiculous record collection on Planet Earth btw! But he got the best guests(because of who he is). And he was a fantastic interviewer.

God bless you, Steve Jones. Adios amigo.

KXLU is not the same as Indie 103.1.. all college stations are like KXLU… great music. small range.. Indie at least had OC and LA in it’s range.. hell, I can get the UC-Irvine station if I want “college music” they will never have Steve Jones at 12….
Peace.
DG

A sad day for radio in los angeles. Although the move to the center was noticeable it was still better than the payola crap other stations put on.

As someone else said, they weren’t perfect, but they really made a difference for me. I’m devastated.

Well IVOR, I have never heard Xu Xu Fang on KXLU, but I did hear them all the time on Jonsey’s Jukebox, so I don’t think it’s the same. They were on Gossip Girl after Indie played them. Maybe in 1999 they played a demo or something, but Indie certainly made Xu Xu Fang a known band in 2008. I do like KXLU, though.

Indie 103.1, going back more than a year ago, was the best radio station I’ve known in my natural life. I moved to LA from Baltimore, right when Indie hit the air and it immediately reminded me of 99.1 WHFS in the Balt/DC area pre-1992ish, when they were sold to a large company like Clear Channel and quickly deteriorated into a KROQ-like mess. Gotta say, I kinda saw it coming with subtle format & playlist changes and cool DJs being replaced by DJs who thought they were cool. This was the only place I could be surprised by hearing a great song on the air that I’d only previously heard on some album I purchased.

And for all you “Edgier” alt music listeners that are dancing on Indie’s ashes, you never had any taste anyway. Indie’s great gift was that it could discern between Alt for the sake of Alt, and Alt that washed warmly over the ears.

Hopefully I can recover from this horrible nightmare of a Crime.
RIP

Same thing happened in Atlanta last year, 99x started to fall in the ratings and turned into more of a 90’s nostalgia station. Then they went to Internet / Hi-def radio only. I am not even sure this is still on the air.
The climate for bands that play their own instruments and write and sing their own songs is VERY rough right now on FM.

As internet streaming for the car and satellite radio becomes standard in all cars,FM will just go away (or at least have so little to do with music that nobody will care)

XM / Sirius is the only way to go – hopefully they will continue to expand their music stations.

It was December 16th and my birthday. I caught the grehound from Austin and was seriously baked on some cookies. I was able to catch my connection from El Paso when I explained my girlfriend made them. I get picked up by the Grandparents at the LA Station w/cd on and playing Frusciante. I was ready. Later that night after settling down and laying in bed i turn on the radio and scanned through the crap LA turned into, I oouldn’t be too upset, it has happened everywhere, right? it was around midnight and there she was, in her glory and I felt my skin burn and heart palpitate – “Los Angeles” by X .

Welcome back, Shane.

That was 2003 and I accepted the IPOD begrudgingly (thanks, ex-girlfriend) but Indie, you were only good when the DJ had a voice.

KEXP in Seattle has been able to be non-corporate on both FM and internet for several years now so apparently it can be done.

“I am sad as hell, cause I’m not going to be able to listen to it anymore!”

Howard Beale

I started listening to Indie 103.1 after I moved to LA from Ohio a couple of years ago. CD101 in Columbus is completely independent and plays much better music than Indie 103.1 did. Everyone I know in Columbus listens to CD101 and loves it, you can have indie radio as long as you put in the hard work to build up a community (something I never got from Indie 103.1).

I am a born and raised Angeleno and Indie 103.1 was a great station. 103.1 had many lives. I’m a dance/electro[nic] fan, so I remember JAMMIN 103.1 when it USED to be Groove Radio back in the ’90s with Poorman and all that. Used to be my JAM after school. Lime, Connie “Funky little Beat”, Acid & Deep House, Freestyle, electro, Groove Radio 103.1 in the ’90s is still my favorite L.A. station of all time, too young for KDAY 1580am, but yeah, Indie 103.1 was cool for this era and I will miss it. They jammed Calvin Harris and Presets when none of the other stations were on top of it. I’m gone.

I am streaming it now and they are saying some of the jocks are going to work for free out of dedication to the fans of the station. I work for a different radio company but even I love indie. By the way, sending the mail to Liberman is misdirected. Send it to the head of corporate. I am certain his name is walter ulloa; Entravision Communications; 2425 Olympic blvd., #6000 west; Santa monica, CA 90424. I looked up their phone number; 310-447-3870 and 323-900-6100.

Something big is about to happen

Radio stations are supposed to serve the public and yet I’ve never been able to find music I like on FM radio!

I am one month away from moving to L.A. and when I visited there recently and heard 103.1 I was sooo excited!- there are no good rock stations anywhere I have lived in Florida- Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, or Tallahassee (except college rock station V89).

There are a million great options for listening to music on the web, but for me, there was something really special about finally being able to just turn on the radio.

Breaks my heart…

kxlu is great when you can drive more than 10 min in los angeles before the station starts breaking up and sounding like chit, the crappy reception alone would drive me insane and was reason enough to keep my dial on 103.1.(i could drive all the way to the I E sometimes and it would still come in)
i have always loved kxlu but it was easy to love indie too cause we felt indie was part of los angeles, we felt like it was our baby cause we were there when it started, and in the beginning it was beautiful…slowly but surely though you could sense it was changing, the corporate commercial music money monster was progressively getting its claws deeper into the stations embodiment and squeezing out the one thing that made it truly a great station, its independent spirit. deep down i knew it would not last
right then, what up with the indie haters saying indie was biting the kxlu style…NFW, I recognized a few similarities between kxlu and indie but i never thought indie was copying or imitating anything that was going on at kxlu, and if they did BFD… kxlu is a good example of what a station should be all about, and if someone else wants to model theirs after it thats a good thing. Los Angeles needs more stations like Indie and KXLU.

Sad, but we knew it was coming well over a year ago when Clear Channel was told they had to divest of some of their Los Angeles properties because they had too many. So, which were they going to divest of–the immensely profitable KFI, or the little alternative rock station that could only be heard around Santa Monica and Newport Beach (where its two transmitters are located because it is really two stations, both of which were too small to survive alone)? For all its faults (one of which was they played almost no actual independent label music, so it wasn’t actually indie anything) it was the best thing that came on my car radio (when I drove in Los Angeles or OC). I can’t get it at my house, but I also can’t get KSPC and KXLU there either. I will miss it because I listen to radio in the car. I can not get the internet in my car. I can listen to any music I want at home. I don’t need somebody feeding me their choices for my home–which would be the only place I could get the internet indie 103.

They should have ended with “Mexican Radio” by Wall of Voodoo instead of “My Way” by Sinatra. Much more prophetic, IMO. Bye-Bye TRENDIE 103.1!!

I feel like I’m having a bad dream but will wake up eventually. Damn!

Just listening to Jonsey’s rambling made my day.

I am mourning the loss of a close friend. I don’t know how I will learn about great new bands like Amazing Baby, MGMT, CSS, and, oh well, the list could go on forever. Thanx for exposing me and my two sons to fantastic music. I need to figure out how to get the internet in my car now. I pity the morning traffic now.

I am mourning the loss of a close friend. I don’t know how I will learn about great new bands like Amazing Baby, MGMT, CSS, and, oh well, the list could go on forever. Thanx for exposing me and my two sons to fantastic music. I need to figure out how to get the internet in my car now. I pity the morning traffic now.

When I heard the announcement this morning as I was driving off to work, I initially thought it was a joke. If only. Indie 103 is quite literally the best radio station Los Angeles has had in years, if not decades. KROQ isn’t bad, just too programmed and “corporate,” though Kevin & Bean are terrific. But having Jonesy do his thing from noon to 2 every weekday was a blast. Where less could you hear radio like it was back in the ’70’s, when D.J.’s played what THEY wanted to hear, when spontaniety and inspiration guided the song selection, not focus groups or payola? Losing Indie is a shame; it truly was the one and only place to really hear an interesting, adventurous, tasteful selection of new and older tunes, artists and sounds. Indie, thanks for the good times while they lasted. You will be missed. A lot. See you (make that hear you) on the web.

Hi:

Yet another example of why I option to webcast on the net at Live365.com. Here fans who like any particular station/dj can show support by signing up for low priced subscriptions, the higher interactivity, etc. Commuters who sub can hear us on wi fi with the new mobile devices now available… Don’t whine, choose!
! Enjoy!

I’ve been listening to 103.1 on the internet for awhile. I live in a crappy town that plays lots of country and metal. No in between. I’ve had XM in my car for 4 years because the stations here suck. I’m used to listening on the internet so it’s okay for me. Good for 103.1 for not letting themselves suck like all the other stations.

Good luck Clear Channel!
You have no idea the harm you are doing to this country. Your time will come, when you too become just another in a long line of bankrupt corporations, and thankfully, a fading memory.
I will truly miss the sound of Steve Jones voice, and his sometimes under appreciated wise musings on life. I am truly heart broken.

You tools who are comparing KXLU to INDIE should go study harder, instead of worshipping at the alter of tin-can college radio.

And that’s the POINT — KXLU is a frickin’ COLLEGE RADIO STATION. Indie was a commercial radio station – that, yeah – had to make a profit to be able to exist. KXLU? Not so much.

It’s the equivalent of bragging that being the 10th grade homecoming queen is more valid than someone with a master’s degree – it’s not even in the same league. And – it’s not supposed to be!

Let me tell all you Indie 103.1 haters something: You can all bitch and moan how “corporate” Indie was, or how they were “not really indie” – but you ALL LISTENED. That is, if you actually cared about the MUSIC.

So tell me, with a straight face, that there’s ANYTHING that sounded that good on a FREE FM radio station in LA!

…tick….tock….tick.. ..tock

Like Joni Mitchell sang – “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”

So please shut your “indier than thou” pieholes. This is a sad loss for music lovers everywhere, and you know it too!

kxlu and indie are different and good for what they each do. I listened to both and enjoyed each. Losing indie from the terrestrial waves is truly sad though.

This sucks. An eclectic, forward-thinking rock station gets booted off the air and an unlistenable piece of garbage like KROQ which caters to 14 year olds and hasn’t updated their playlist in 15 years (seriously, does anyone care about The Offspring, Papa Roach or Bush anymore??) remains. I’m so sick of all the homogenized, lowest-common-denominator B.S. on LA radio. KXLU is great (REAL alternative radio) and I’ll always support them but I can’t pick it up in my car, man! Indie might have been just as corporate owned and operated as any other mainstrean FM station but hell…they played The Buzzcocks, X, The Stooges, Black Flag, Early Bowie, all kinds of bands that fans of honest rock music love but other big FM stations won’t touch. Guess it’s back to Leykis(when he’s not being a misogynistic a**hole), NPR(if they’re talking about anything halfway interesting), or The Sound(if they’re not playing Jack Johnson or old-guy rock) on the way home from work….great.

WFNX IN BOSTON! AND 103.1 THE BEST SATIONS IN THE US! ALL THE REST IS CRAP!

well swell… just what los angeles needs, another spanish speaking radio station, in place of indie. i will miss you indie, stevie, and all. you served the radio waves so very well. i miss kxlu, as well, weak radio waves.

Whenever I mentioned Indie, I would always get blank stares in return. Nobody knew about it. Even with all the good press and hardcore fans, it was still so underground. The first problem is that there are a lot of people who were already turned off by corporate radio, so they just listened to CDs or their iPod or internet radio anyway. Those people were never exposed to it. Then there are people who were “raised” on bad music like Britney Spears, so they have no idea that there is better stuff out there. But the main problem is that nobody really believed in it. If they did, they would have advertised it heavily and made sure that people were at least aware of it.

Good for you. Radio has been held hostage for far too long and too many incredible bands have been overlooked and unrepresented because of the stranglehold the RIAA and corporate radio have over the industry. Terrestrial FM radio is dead. Satellite radio was still born…but one day there will be a renewal, a rebirth…and radio will represent real music once again. It just takes one person with a vision.

A sad day. I turned on 103.1 today on my way to work and someone was singing in Spanish . . .

Will somebody please get a hold of the people at KROQ, and tell them how much they SUCK?

They have 4 bands in rotation:
The Offspring
Sublime
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Linkin Park

Peppered with all those asinine “screamo guy” bands.

WHO THE F’CK CAN LISTEN TO THEM FOR EVEN 10 MINUTES?

Not me…RIP INDIE 103.1!!!!!

Okay… here’s the real story.

Yes, ratings from the new PPM system killed the station, but it was slowly dying before that from misguided programming. Once Steele was let go and Tolkoff was brought in, one mans vision was to take the station to a more traditional Alt-Rock format, sort of like KROQ, but no, there was no Limp Biscuit or Papa Roach or emo garbage, and if you think so, you didn’t listen. The biggest problem with the station is the signal. All formats have done poorly on 103.1, because it has little reach, and for a commercial station, that’s death. All the wonderful KXLU Indie haters are hilarious. Indie stole your programming?? Like AltRadio did in the 80’s? In the 90s? Isn’t that what they’re there for? To start these bands? What, you don’t want them to get popular so more listeners can buy their music and keep them going? Are you so selfish that you want to keep this music to yourselves? Silly…

Online version has every show, aside from the full time weekly jocks, Jonesy, TK, Shovel, Darren and Kurt, and iTunes @ 2. Rollins, Navarro and all the weekend shows are still on the interweb version. No, this doesn’t make it Indie… but it’s nice to know you can still listen to a few of the shows that made Indie what it was, and I must admit, the music now streaming on the web sounds way better than it did recently… plus I heard some new stuff that wasn’t ever on the FM dial, like Yo La Tengo! Dinosaur Jr and Swervedriver as well… I am hopeful, but it won’t be Indie without EVERYONE.

… and that comment about Jonesy ripping off some noon time punk show is hilarious!! You idiot, he barely ever PLAYED punk! He didn’t even care for most of it! It was soul, funk, world music, glam rock from the 70s, indie electronica and really great new indie rock. You have your head so far up your own ass, you can probably see your own teeth, those which you are lying through. So funny to see these kids get their backs up when they feel that someone is challenging their “coolness” factor. Grow up, children.

Who even cares about the radio anymore?

Put a cd player in your car already.

It sucks that 103.1 is over, but its better off this way. WBCN Boston was a legendary rock station. Some BCN concerts included Social Distortion/Sebadoh, Foo Fighters/Ben Harper/At The Drive In. Now its pretty much the same station you would hear in Tallahassee or Buffalo. They actually hosted a contest w buckcherry. Youre better off with the station ending how you loved it.

As if Satellite radio is any less boring than FM radio was? I’d sooner have listened to Indie 103 than Alt Nation on Sirius or Ethel for that matter. Left of Centre (RIP) was brilliant but it’s gone too.

As for those talking about this LA college station. No comparison. Sorry. College radio is dead

103.1 now plays Spanish language music. The redio signal was always weak and haphazard, for instance, as soon as I got over the top of the pass, the signal punked out. But often I would drive up the PCH, and the signal would stay beyond Neptune. I could hear Indie down in San Pedro.

Fist of all ,indie 103.1 was an oasis in the in seas of bullshit that’s passed off for radio.now ,here in LA,we goin have listen to all those phoney hollywood ass kissers with their stupid radio voices.Joney was the man who could and did it for 2 hour ,the Sire of Wilshire,the Liker of lichenstien.GOd Save the Indie

seems like this indie 1031 webstream keeps playing all their songs in a rotation…..this is the third time today ive heard magic by ladyhawke

I guess i understand why they did it but that doesn’t mean i’m happy about it. i only listened to 103.1 and now i’m constantly searching again. I could aleady listen to 93.1 chicago’s finest radio online (which if i had to guess is where 103.1 came from because they had almost the same play lists). What i and most of Cali needs is a good radio station that they can get for free in the car.

it is a sad day, lets hope they can pull it together and have a play list that makes us want to listen. i have enough music on my computer to go for over one year solid without ever hearing the same song twice and i don’t do it for a living. someone over at the new old station must have at least as much as me. i guess it is time to get that ipod!

the loss of indie 103 is sad, indeed, but A LOT of the bands people are claiming to have “discovered” on indie 103, actually got their first airplay on KCRW. LA radio isn’t dead, KCRW has always been THE station for new and cool music. why such a big deal over indie? haven’t you people ever heard kcrw’s programming?

The way the station has functioned for the past year or so, I’m actually glad they’ve decided to go off the air. When I first started listening to indie, about 5 years ago, they were fresh and cutting edge. Lately, they’ve been really lame and uninspired. I hope this new chapter takes them back to their roots.

This is a sad day. 103.1 is gone! That was the only station that I listened to on the radio. The only one worth my time. Please say you will be back!

This is definitely sad news. We were psyched to have DJ Paul V from Indie’s Neon Noise guest DJ for our dance game. Thanks for playing some great tunes!

Indie was the closest to my favorite WZBC radio – Boston College Radio – and I’ll miss it. The thing I’ll miss the most is all of the free tickets I won to great shows like X, The Sex Pistols at the Roxy (yes, I was one of the lucky ones), and so many others I’ve forgotten how many… Now it’s either learn Spanish or get that satellite radio I’ve been thinking about for a long time. I am sad.

kxlu is true indie radio in los angeles. the weekends are salsa and the day time weekdays are really good indie music by bands that are actually signed to independents or not even signed at all. i can’t understand how even in the beginning indie said they were “indie” and still played majority major labels.

Its ok people , 89.9 KCRW. Look into it!

look it sucks that any station playing good music gets canned in L.A.— KCRW is and was the truer indie station and hell, the music is always great and nothing you’ll hear on other stations- KXLU is great for the harder edge sounds that weren’t even played on 103.1– point? you can still hear good music on the radio in Los Angeles- just not 24/7– the public/college radio stations just don’t do that which is why it’s such a loss.

indy 1031….best. station. ever. with the best. dj’s. evaar. i miss them

Im confused why I keep seeing Ted Romans twitter all over the place. He was barely involved with the station except for bringing the program director lunch every day :-O

ENTRAVISION= Entra-Lack-Of-Vision.

ENTRAVI SION= Entra-Lack-Of-Vision.

ENTRAVI SION= Entra-Lack-Of-Vision.

The NEW 103.1 “El Gato” is one more crap spanish station, The only people that will listen to your umpalumppa polka beats will be broke illegals and fruit pickers in broken down trucks hauling leaf blowers that will never buy anything you advertise unless it is cheap beer.

THANKS ENTRAVISION (Entra-Lack-Of-Vision) FOR KILL THE GOOD RADIO.

i honestly dont see how anyone who wakes up in the morning could stand listening to kcrw and kxlu…i mean kcrw only played music during select hours of the day, and most of the time kxlu doesnt even play the “alternative/indie rock” they are supposed to. not to mention listening to those stations feels like your in the middle of in class listening to a long lecture. indie was/is the “best station ever concieved” and i hope that the rumors are true, that indie is making a real effort to return to the airwaves…..

Shit guess I have to add another to the list of sucky LA

They need an ap that allows a person to stream on an I phone so I can listen in my car – i.e. pandora, last fm…..

I lived though the demise of Live 105(KITS) in San Francisco, when they were bought up and the programming went from Alternative/Punk to mundane programming we see today and that was bad. Then I moved to SoCal and suffered with KROQ(sister station to LIVE105) and I forgot what good radio was until Indie showed up. In the beginning Indie had some goofy radio show and then one morning I was treated to the Clash, The Smiths X and Black Flag and I was re-introduced to quality music, and it was good for a while. Hopefully someone will realize there is a market for quality Indie/Alternative music and that the listeners do have money. One can only hope.

Well, at least WHFS is back on hfs2.com. It is so great to heard HFS classics being played again. Hopefully this will work out for Indie 103.