Siriusxmu

It is past 2 am and my system, as it seems want to do lately, refuses to allow me to sleep, even though i work in less than 5 hrs. So i use this time to follow/stalk more people on twitter and fall across a number of bloggers/indie type radio hosts whom i have meant for quite some time now to subscribe to after hearing them regularly on siriusxmu. siriusxmu, in case you have not had the privilege of discovering yet, is the indie music station on both sirius and xm satellite radio. i have them to thank for having introduced me to many, many great acts and expanding my musical horizons exponentially. always a new band or website to check out, and for that i am eternally grateful. but a pessimist at heart, i have to have a few things which i despise from this station. first is hipster runoff. hipster runoff is a blog and radio segment of a severely emo-ish annoying monotone voice set on despondent despair and boredom. while i sometimes like the music he plays i will immediately turn the station as soon as i hear his annoying-fingernails-on-chalkboard pointless drabble to any of the myriad of other available stations (so long as it isn't that annoying madison, whose voice i just can't handle). nice thing about satellite radio, lots to choose from.
next on the peev list : repetition. as i have said, i am thankful for the introductions for which the station has done to show me acts you would never hear on regular radio. but it is too bad that independent radio doesn't actually mean that. instead you have the same annoying system as what you have on local radio. they play the exact same singles over and over and over again. until you simply want to puke from hearing that gawd damned whistle song even one more time. i love alexander's truth. but seriously! now, i know he has ONLY one song to play but wouldn't it be possible to play something other than sufjan steven's "i walked". last i checked there were 11 songs on his age of adz release but you would never know it from listening to siriusxmu...the "independent" station. i guess even "independent" stations have to kow tow to record labels and the "released" singles list. too bad.
and despite the myriad of available music to choose from, it always seems like the same play list is being repeated over and over again. matt and kim to be followed by vampire weekend, beach house and toro y moi. it makes me wish that they might play something..oh, i dunno, different! so, i return to some classic rock, just to hear something a lil more original, for a lil bit of change.