Knrk 94.7 Fm

So the bithday party show was great however the actual staff that actually works there and the can not be trusted.
If you are looking to invest in air time or the quality of service. Think twice.
The problem was to much lip service for the end product.
Buyers beware.

There isn’t much you can do about a radio station playlist because its a corporate monster like Clear Channel hiring buffoons to list what’s hot and what’s not. Well, 94.7 tries to counterbalance this with classic alternative but in the end its just a hodgepodge of new iffy music and old played out music. As another reviewer on here pointed out, they play Sublime as if they just came out, Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins too. I listen daily at work because there really isn’t anything better and listening to the gals in the office is NOT safe for 8 hours. …hugs Betty Jean. Anyway, it would be such a great station if they would just concentrate on new music of a broad variety and focus on more local talent and other tracks from known artists than just recycling the same songs all day. In this modern age when most have access to online downloading, if a person hears a track and likes it they will most likely go download it and listen when they want. There is no need to replay a track 10 times a day. When Mumford and Sons were at the height of their popularity they would play a cut by them every 45 minutes… it was destroying my love for radio. So yes I am ranting and nothing will be done but if anyone from Clear Channel is reading this then please spice it up a bit and understand that most of us are not lemmings following your idea of what popular music is… and yes alternative is popular music now unlike when I was a teen and it was good music to listen to in an attempt to escape Paula Abdul and hair bands. Amen.

I took 94.7 for granted until I moved to the Bermuda Triangle of pop music radio stations (i.e. Central California coast).
Now I stream it. And thank the Flying Spaghetti monster for that. Because you know what sucks more than hearing «it’s different here» a gazillion times a day — Taylor effing Swift, that’s what. And that’s the kind of excrement that plays on the radio stations my coworkers listen to. Deafness never sounded so good.
Yes, Gustav seems to have a hard-​on for Sublime (Dear Gustav: I love you but please knock off that shit). I don’t mind the other early to mid 90’s music because, well, I’m an early to mid 90’s music kinda girl. I LIKE that they play Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc.
And, yes, it seems to be the same Silverspun, MGMT, Imagine Dragons, Fun, and those banjo-​playing, Steinbeck-​loving Mumford & Sons playlists — but I will take that over the alternatives here.
You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone, Portland. The sunny California pop blows more than the whales lurking offshore.

Hey let’s hear some more sublime. srsly…

I am surprised to see the negative reviews of this radio station. I like it, and think that it is one of the best in Oregon. They don’t talk too much, and they play a lot of good progressive music, upbeat songs I don’t hear on other Portland stations. Yes, they do play a collection of songs a lot, but they are really good songs. After a while they move on to emphasize a new collection of songs. The modern mix show on Saturday night is a great, different from anything else I have heard in Oregon.

KINK and KGON win every time. Countless times I’ve picked listening to Rush on KGON (yes the Canadian prog rock band) rather than enduring another word DJ Greg says, or another Mumford and Sons song. KNRK takes good music and drives it into the ground.

Pretty good but needs more variety.

Pros: Great special shows, music here isn’t heard most other places (except maybe KINK FM)
Cons: Outside of special shows, typical alternative standards over and over
I’m between a 3 and a 4 rating for KNRK 94.7 Alternative Portland. A part of me wants to give it a 3 because this is your typical alternative radio station that plays the same alternative standards over and over. Every day, you’ll be sure to hear U2, Nirvana, Sublime and Stone Temple Pilots. U2 has a pretty big catalog, but the other three don’t and the station chooses to play the usual suspects of the other three. Yep, Smells Like Teen Spirit, What I’ve Got, Come As You Are, and Interstate Love Song don’t suffer from lack of playing.
However, there are a few shows that this channel has that make me bump up the rating to a 4:
1. 8 at 8: This show helps me get through the morning. DJ Greg always puts together 8 songs with a theme. A lot of times, rare songs are played that I’ve either never heard of or have, but haven’t in so long that I forgot about them. The Friday edition is always all 80s, and Greg does a nice job of picking out some of the more obscure 80s songs to play.
2. 90s at noon: Gustav, the DJ in the afternoon, plays this show, which plays an hour of 90s hits. Many of the songs again are ones that haven’t been played in a long time or rarities.
3. The perfect playlist: They do this at 5 every day. Someone writes in a with a playlist for the hour. A lot of times, the playlist has rare songs or new songs, which makes it even better.
4. Bottom 40: A great weekend show that plays a great variety of new and old alternative songs.
5. Local music: Usually on Sundays they devote a few hours to local Portland area bands. Always nice to see what’s new on the local music scene.
I wish the rest of the day had the same variety as these shows. However, these shows are strong enough to make it a four rating, not a five, but not a three either. In the vast wasteland that is radio, you have to have realistic expectations.

The death-​rattle of my grandma’s lice-​riddled ferret is more soothing to my ears than this station. «It’s different here” – it is, given that most rock stations don’t have «Buffalo Soldier» on a loop.
Here’s a project – listen to Greg the DJ in the mornings, and use a sharp fingernail to scratch into your flesh every time he refers to himself.
Dictionaries staring at themselves in the mirror are less self-​referential. (wow, better let that one simmer for a while).
And I don’t give a scoop of cat litter about your cat, so quit talking about it. If your cat had any musical sense or pride it would have consumed a self-​made fatal sized hairball by now.
They play Nirvana without a hint of irony.
They play Blondie without realizing that very few of us have a fond memory of coked out disco rock.
12 years ago, this station was pretty solid. But like Greg the DJ’s cat condo at home, it’s pretty much just a big steamer now.

NRK is Entercom not Clear Channel.
Different name. Same story.

The music in the morning is a pretty solid idea, and they have Loveline at night (that show is hit-​or-​miss), but they don’t play much new alternative stuff like they should during a whole day.
Also, I lost a lot of respect for this station after reading this:

Okay, so I know it’s pretty pointless to a) review a radio station, and b) update a review to a radio station, but I must point this out.
I have heard:
«London Calling»
«This is Radio Clash»
and «Train in Vain»
in addition to the usual «Should I Stay or Should I Go?»
This warrants another star.

I would LOVE to find a truly alternative channel in Portlandto listen to. But since I have yet to locate that, when I need to have the radio on this is my channel of choice.
My major gripe: Apparently I’m the One Person on Earth who Loathes Nirvana and Sublime, because thousands of other people have voted them as their favorite musicians of all time (or something like that) and subsequently these 2 bands are played EVERY hour. And it’s not like there’s a huge library of options from either of these bands that are utilized. Nope– the same olé 3 – 5 songs. Every hour. Every day. Cringe.
I’ll contrast that with a positive, to be balanced: I really like the Perfect Playlist at 5pm. I like listening to people’s choices of songs, because often they choose awesome random stuff that either I haven’t heard before or haven’t heard in ages. Keep that aspect coming!
But I will agree with the other reviewers that in general it’s about the same repeated playlist of repetitive music, dusted with interesting different songs (mostly retro). I would welcome more local music, more new music, more different music.
But, all in all, 94.7 isn’t horrific. I think the DJs are fine, –the playlist just needs a good scrub-​down by some executive who truly is willing to embrace new/​local/​different music.

Pretty much 94.7 FM saves me during my work days.
Having to listen to the oldies station in the work showroom, country music in the accounting department office, sports and classic rock at the shipping room. I prefer the solitude of Radiohead, The Ting Tings, Kings of Leon, Death Cab for Cutie at my desk. Thanks to 94.7, I can do that 8 hours a day 5 days a week. Yayyyy… :-|

It’s been 222 days since my last fix. I thought I could make it. I thought that maybe this time I could stay clean but who was I fooling. Not even myself. 200+ CD’s of aural candy gleaned from years of KEXP 90.3 addiction & it’s not even close. Cravings are becoming obsessions & we all know where those lead…
The hallucinations are setting in. I know my mind is playing tricks on me but truthfully I’m so far gone I don’t even care anymore. If this is reality then sign me up for that custom-​tailored white jacket with the extra long sleeves. Auditory pica is here to stay & my tenuous hold on the here & now is slipping. John in the morning is chirping in my head telling me about this great new band with the funny name of Vampire Weekend but that’s crazy talk. He started playing them a year & a half ago. Cheryl Waters is chiming in about the podcast of the day, some Smashing Pumpkins-​esque band, called the Silver Sun Pickups but my iPod shows quite clearly that was on May 2006. The worst though is yet to come. Can a voice sound like smoky jazz laced with laughter? Damn. There he is, Kevin Cole, in the phantom flesh, taunting me with French pop on the commute home except my commute is a pedestrian ramble home from the dog park… with Peter, Bjorn, and John whistling at me as I make my way down the street cuz Yoshimi’s going to save me from those giant robots.
No, the worst part isn’t losing your mind or even the flights of fantasy. It’s the crash back into reality, the knowledge that not only are you in fact spiraling into that unknown land but that you’re straddling two worlds. If «It’s Different Here» means that I’ll be subjected to mind-​numbing reiterations of bands that I listened to in GRADE SCHOOL then please, drop kick me into the abyss where I can indulge my need for iconoclastic musical apparitions & bypass the monotonous derivative drivel. When did «alternative» become soulless sterile drudges whose last 5 albums sound like a broken replay button? Kevin, wait for me, I’m on my way! Screw this corporate crap, I’m off the wagon!

You can’t tell me «It’s different here,» and then bust out «Smells Like Teen Spirit» as if it’s been ages since I’ve heard a Nirvana song. Oh, corporate radio. Even in times of great uncertainty, I can always be assured that you always suck.
Your Bottom Forty and Perfect Playlist programs are always a revelation, though. The woman who came on and did a theme about death totally made my day. And your 80’s at Eight segment on Friday mornings introduced me to one of my theme songs for this year. So I know you and your misled alternative drones aren’t complete robots. You know there’s music out there to play and educate the masses. It is irresponsible disc-​jockeying to keep it under wraps.

Until a KEXP or a KUFO type of station pops on the scene, this is all we have. Some good strides have been made to integrate true alternative music, but you still end up hearing WAY TOO MUCH Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2 and Sublime. Enough of that!!!
I did a perfect play list with Gustav about a year ago and had a lot of fun playing My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab, Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo and Spiritualized. I even got a few folks calling in and saying how this was cool to hear on mainstream radio :)
In summary, decent older bands get some play, but the cool new ones do not. I guess that is what you get with a radio station owned by a big corporation.

I must admit that ordinarily I wouldn’t even bother to review this station because it’s just background noise for me at work. Why then do I give it 5 stars you ask? Because…
they let me hang out & make music (sweet, sweet music) with… drum roll please…
M-​effin WEEZER. That’s right kids, WEEZER.
Coolest thing that I’ve ever done. EVER.
Whilst I agree with my predecessors that this radio station is pretty predictable & just a tiny step up from similar stations in other towns, they more often than not have some rad stuff going on for their listeners. So whether you dig the station or not, I suggest joining their little crew if only to get in on internet pre-​sales & other rad events that are often only available to the ’94.7 Nation’…
like the WEEZER HOOTENANNNY!
man that was a hoot.

Of all of the popular radio stations, KRNK seems the one that hasn’t diminished severely in quality songs, but they seem to be focusing on some pop rock nowadays. Alternative metal still exists here, but its a lot more sparse than it used to be. The Portland music scene is not to be found here, as a majority of the song list is nationally produced with little local emphasis.
The actual DJs are semi-​entertaining but they have endured a bit of turnover (as do most stations) and the last batch was subpar at best. I was always appalled that they played Tai Mai Shu’s Freestyle («Tie My Shoe» — A mocking Chinese internet hit), which is hip hop and can be seen as racially insensitive. I wonder if they still play that crap today.

Portland Radio stations kind of struggle.
94.7 could be a great Portland Indie station, but they spend so much time playing crap like Nickelback from the early 90’s. Ick.
Its not the 90’s anymore. Portland hipsters and musicians need a station that will focus on the CURRENT music, especially cause Portland’s scene is pretty kickin.