{"id":65998,"date":"2026-05-06T05:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65998"},"modified":"2026-05-04T06:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:03:16","slug":"indie-is-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/indie-is-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie is the WORD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WAIR-May-Shortwave-Gold_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66000\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WAIR-May-Shortwave-Gold_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WAIR-May-Shortwave-Gold_1.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WAIR-May-Shortwave-Gold_1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WAIR-May-Shortwave-Gold_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WAIR-May-Shortwave-Gold_1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WAIR-May-Shortwave-Gold_1-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi to all SWLing Post community. Here&#8217;s news of what <strong>Imaginary Stations<\/strong> will be bringing to the ionosphere this week.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <b data-path-to-node=\"4,0\" data-index-in-node=\"10\">Shortwave Gold<\/b>, we have a transmission called <strong>WAIR &#8211; Always Independent Radio<\/strong> Featuring the sounds of indie, alternative and post -punk goodness. The show is on <strong>Saturday 9th May <\/strong>at <strong>1100 hrs UTC<\/strong> on <strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and then again on <strong>Sunday 10th May <\/strong>at <strong>0900\/1300 UTC <\/strong>on <strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and <strong>2000 hrs <\/strong>on<strong> 3975 kHz\/6160 kHz. <\/strong>Tune in to <strong>WAIR<\/strong> for 60 minutes of independent sounds!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WORD-13th-May-2026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65999\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WORD-13th-May-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WORD-13th-May-2026.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WORD-13th-May-2026-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WORD-13th-May-2026-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WORD-13th-May-2026-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WORD-13th-May-2026-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then on <strong data-path-to-node=\"12,0\" data-index-in-node=\"84\">Wednesday, May 13th (0200 UTC on 9395 kHz)<\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI,<\/a><\/strong> we have a transmission called\u00a0<strong>WORD<\/strong>. Explore through the shortwaves, a musical theme with songs about words and letters, books, libraries, acronyms, verbs, adverbs and if we can book them in the studio, the shortwave debut of the band <strong>Kevin Commas and The Semantics<\/strong> (Wichita&#8217;s premier word rock band). Word is the word!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J1MEP4OgrsU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more information on all our shows, please write to us at imaginarystations@gmail.com and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/kmtsradio\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: blue\">here<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FastRadioBurst23<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi to all SWLing Post community. Here&#8217;s news of what Imaginary Stations will be bringing to the ionosphere this week. Thanks to Shortwave Gold, we have a transmission called WAIR &#8211; Always Independent Radio Featuring the sounds of indie, alternative and post -punk goodness. The show is on Saturday 9th May at 1100 hrs UTC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3194,3,43,1167],"tags":[7929,11085,9110,11084,7928,11094,9918,10065,11009,11086,10066,10255,1478,10272,11087,11089,11088,61,11083],"class_list":["post-65998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-dj-frederick","tag-do-i-love-you","tag-fastradioburst23","tag-frank-wilson","tag-free-radio-skybird","tag-imaginary-states-vermont","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-marc-from-belgium","tag-northen-soul","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-shortwave-listening","tag-skybird-radio-international","tag-soul","tag-soul-music","tag-soul-on-shortwave","tag-wrmi","tag-wwls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hau","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66376,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/theres-something-in-the-wair\/","url_meta":{"origin":65998,"position":0},"title":"There&#8217;s something in the (w)air","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"June 17, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all the SWLing Post community. 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