My lovely fiancee alerted me to this, from Houston’s alternative rock station, The Buzz:
Starting at 6 a.m. Wednesday, we’ll be taking song requests for cash to help residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We’re dusting off ALL our records, ‘cause anything goes!Here’s the price list:
$30 – Buzz Songs
$60 – Non-Buzz Songs
$80 – Way off The Buzz Path (example: Barry Manilow)
$200 – Local BandsYou say it … and pay it … we’ll play it!! Call 713-212-5945 to place your request.
For the first time ever, The Buzz is appointment radio. Assuming that it’s funding a legit charity, I’m so doing this.
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I just checked, and KQBZ is owned by Clear Channel, so it is probably a legitimate contest. Like them or not, CC does have the institutional sense to comply with these sorts of rules.
I have been looking for a site that has a really good set up links to information and ways you can help I think this is the best one I have found ….Network for Good has a page of donation links to charities (including the Red Cross) mobilizing to help: http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/animal_environ/hurricanes/ . It is very comprehensive and easy to use … give what you can …..
Good list of songs over at Making Light, under the headline “Soundtrack.” Has the station already played “When the Levee Breaks” to death? The Nielsen Haydens & Co have a good list of delta blues songs, several inspired the 1927 flood, with v appropriate lyrics. Have fun!
I’d have “Charleton Heston” by Stump – it would cost me £80 for being too leftfield, but worth it.
Why are local bands 2.5X more than Barry Manilow?
Is Houston music just that bad?
Can we stop getting our knickers in twists over an icky-bicky wind? A few dead, a couple of swamps flooded. That represents a good day in Iraq or Afghanistan or Stepney.
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