"KALX is actually the best radio station in the world, period."
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Bill Wyman, Arts Editor, SF Weekly, March 5, 1997
"One minute you're listening to country singer Hank Williams,
the next it's the grunge band Nirvana,
followed by an Indian classical selection."
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Sandy Kleffman, San Jose Mercury News, February 22, 1997
"...KALX-FM, one of the few local stations worth their airwaves"
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Silke Tudor, SF Weekly, September 3, 1997
"Pleasant discovery: The play-by-play announcer on the Cal
basketball broadcasts on KALX, the campus station."
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Tim Keown, San Francisco Chronicle, March 23, 1996
(article title: Making A List)
4. KALX-FM: two-and-a-half hours of Lou Reed, on the occasion of his 47th birthday
(March 2). Upsetting,
since these days if you hear two songs in a row from the same performer you figure he or she just died.
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"Real Life Top Ten" by Greil Marcus,
Village Voice, April 3, 1990, New York
"On Sunday mornings, KALX transforms into a community resource
for the Hip-Hop generation like no other program in the East Bay.
Hosted by Davey D...outlets like community radio, and KALX in
particular, are incredibly valuable to People of Color for
providing a forum."
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Rickey Vincent, Daily Californian, September 13, 1990
"I Owe It All To KALX"
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MC Hammer, Oaktown Independent, September 1, 1990
"Steve Wozniak, best known for creating the Apple (computer),
once again distinguished himself as a wonderful human being
by seeing KALX their $27,000 and raising them another $27,000"
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Melissa Milton, The Daily Californian
("In a Perfect World: KALX Scores"), November 8, 1985.
"KALX is a rare outlet for independent music of all kinds."
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Jim Rendon, Berkeley Voice, March 6, 1997
Best Radio Station - second place,
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Express weekly newspaper, October 14, 1994
"Diversity is hardly an embryonic concept here.
The premier issue of the station's program guide,
December 1979's 10 Watts, declared that
'any one of the six daily air shifts will feature
music from at least three different genres,' and
that 'KALX constantly strives to broaden the
musical horizons of both its airstaff and audience."
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Anneli S. Rufus, Express, cover story on August 21, 1992
"That's always been the dearest thing about KALX: the
way its DJs' personalities, their tastes, come barreling
unadulterated down the airwaves."
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Anneli S. Rufus, Express, cover story on August 21, 1992
"The eternal verities of college radio are rock and roll,
fund-raisers and hassles with the administration."
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Bill Davis, KALX Station Manager,
as quoted in Newsweek, November 1984
"You have a car radio? Great. Tune to KALX some day
instead of 'The Rocker.' Here you will find brilliant
testimony that rock'n'roll did not die in 1971...the
broadcast today is mostly a truly hip, urbane,
non-pretentious sampling of the best
progressive rock recorded."
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Roland De Wolk, The Oakland Tribune, July 2, 1989
(article titled: Eastbay's Positives)
"Hi, I'm Jesus Christ. Whenever I'm in the Bay Area,
I always listen to this station. 90.7 FM KALX, Berkeley"
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- Rolling Stone, May 19, 2005
Legendary critic Greil Marcus gave KALX DJ Lady J
a rave review in
Real Life Rock Top Ten
published in City Pages. He gave Lady J the four top slots !
- City Pages, August 27, 2003
Jonathan Lethem's latest novel "The Fortress of Solitude"
includes a fictional character who DJs at KALX Berkeley.
The book also references real live KALX DJs like Gail Warning, Marshall Stax, and Sex for Teens!
A recent review of the book can be found at the
SF Chronicle
website.
- SF Chronicle, October 6, 2003
"I can't stop listening, because the next song might be the best
one I've ever heard."
- BAM, February 23, 1996
"KALX is a lot like its home base (Berkeley) - diverse and
full of surprises."
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J.H. Tompkins, The East Bay Guardian, October 1991
"It was perfect. My visitor glowered enviously at the
stereo. 'Now that you've got me hooked on this,' he intoned,
'I don't care anymore about going to see Fisherman's Wharf."
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Anneli S. Rufus, Express, cover story on August 21, 1992
"The iconoclastic voice of a determinedly innovative
university, KALX maintains local-landmark status."
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Anneli S. Rufus, Express, cover story on August 21, 1992
"KALX DJs could do no wrong, I thought. They were
clairvoyant...Listening to KALX, you weren't just
sitting there. You were learning."
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Anneli S. Rufus, Express, cover story on August 21, 1992
"FM radio's maverick midget"
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Anneli S. Rufus, Express, cover story on August 21, 1992
"The very first station to play Green Day!"
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BAM, January 1995
"An auditory funhouse that is one of the country's
oldest college radio stations."
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Greg Cahill, Pacific Sun, May 21, 1993
(article titled: Rebel Radio)
"It's somehow reassuring to know that somewhere out there...
somewhere where your radio won't tune half the time is KALX,
untainted, unviolated by big music business bucks."
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Will Miner, Berkeley Graduate, April 1988
"Berkeley's KALX, long renowned as one of the nation's
best and most creative college stations"
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Lawrence Livermore, Lookout! Magazine, November 1987
"When I was home sick for six weeks in late '94,
it was KALX that had the best programming."
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Olivia Eielson, letter in KPFA Folio, July-September 1997
"Bay Area's college stations - KUSF, KALX, KFJC and KZSU
- stand apart from most of the nation's college and
commercial alternative stations."
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Robert Haber, President & Publisher of CMJ,
quoted in The Bay Guardian, February 1995
"The station's free-form environment allows KALXers to
adventure into whatever broadcasting landscape they wish
to design."
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Michael Kaye, The Daily Californian, October 30, 1992
"KALX, UC Berkeley's radio station, has won the highest
award given to the nation's college radio stations. In
its most recent issue, the College Media Journal New Music
Report announced that KALX (90.7 FM) [received] top honors
in the annual reader vote...diversity played a major role
in the achievement."
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Daily Californian, February 19, 1987
"College Radio: We have the best in the country: KUSF, KFJC,
KALX and KZSU provide us with iconoclastic new music
unsullied by commercialism."
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San Francisco Focus magazine, June 1990
"Hi, this is Satan. Whenever I'm driving around Berkeley
in my Firebird, I keep my radio tuned to KALX, at 90.7 FM"
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