At this rate, the blogging.la people are going to have to show up on their doorstep with torches – first Dickie, now this…

God, what the hell is up with Indie these days? They couldn’t maintain the veil of actually being a good station with unique content, entertaining DJs, and a sense of being about the music? Was it too difficult for them to keep up the act any longer so they had to let their true colors show?

Bah.

So, is Clear Channel suing him, or Entravision?

Evidently, Indie will sue anyone else who tries to be independent.

Where’s Chris Checkman when we need him?

This reminds me of that porn site suicide girls. The owner keeps sending a lot of letters from their lawyers to people they feel are competing with their porn site. And this is just because they are threatened by having other goth, emo punk porn chicks on other sites besides their own. Pretty messed up I say. Yet, people will do anything out of fear of competition.

Am I the only one glad that Dickie is off the air? He had great taste in music but was a HORRIBLE on-air person. Perhaps he’s better suited for a producer-type role. He’s most certainly better with a script (Kimmel) than ad-libbing. Look at Steve Jones for example- everyone I know found him completely painful to listen to at first, yet his wit and charm are soon understood. Dickie had no wit and no charm. NONE.
The changes that have been occuring at the station indicate an impending demise. That would be a shame because it has been a savior to have an alternative to that shoddy K-Rock and something for the occasions when I need something harder that KCRW. Some of their shows- Joe Sib, Henry Rollins, the Red Zone- are amazing, and we Angelenos are lucky to have them. And where else can we get mashups? But senseless schlop like the Suicide Girls, the once-edgy Camp Freddy Radio, and the boring TK (yeah, man, we were all angry drunken punks once) make it like any other commercial station.
And this newest bit regarding copyright? It sounds more like corporate muscling (ClearChannel) rather than a small Latin-owned franchise (Entrevision). Good luck, Shepard. Let’s hope principle wins over “independant” (corporate) greed!

The end has already come…TK debuted the new Tool song last night. I promptly switched over to KXLU.

Perhaps a case for the ACLU?

If you need Chris Checkman, then you’re a sad little man.

If I were you, I would just change the color. What a bunch of wankers, releasing the hounds (lawyers) over this.

I guess Indie must be planning on dropping a mean note to people like Virgin Megastore and the Black Eyed Peas as well.

Looks like the website was surrendered

Pfft. It looks like Indy 103 is ripping off Aleksandr Rodchenko and the early Soviet Constructivists. The dollar dances on the asses of corporate punk rock!

Bears a striking resemblance to KPFK’s logo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPFK