Mike Jones
1. When did you get involved with 88.1 FM?
I got involved at KVSC as an internship my freshman year in the Newsroom back in the fall of 08’. That turned into an official Position as an Assistant News Director. I also started going to our Monday Night Live every week just to watch. Well I guess I watched a little too close because KVSC gave me the job to that too. I am currently the Assistant Music Director and MNL Sound Engineer at 88.1 FM KVSC Saint Cloud.
2. What show(s) do you currently host on KVSC and what programs have you hosted in the past?
I have hosted a whole bunch of shows here at KVSC on and off, but now I have found my home as the Tuesday Late Night Progressive Rock Show host. I have had this show for almost a full year now and I plan to keep it. It features the Tuesday night Featured Artist Spotlight which is almost always a Punk Rock artist. The FAS runs from 11pm to midnight, and right after Undercurrents Punk Rock on Tuesdays.
3. Please list some of the artists and musicians you consider to be a must play on your show(s)?
Well I like to keep the theme of Undercurrents Punk Rock going even after that show is done with more punk rock, because hey, if I don’t play who will?
4. Why are you involved with independent community radio at 88.1 FM?
Who else would let me talk on the radio?… or give me a job?
5. What is in your personal CD player, iPod, or mp3 right now (BE HONEST)?
7 Seconds, 88 Fingers Louie, Action Design, Against Me!, Agent Orange, All, Anti-Flag, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, Banner Pilot, Beach Boys, Beatles, Black Flag, Blackfire, Blink-182, Bouncing Souls, Briefs, Buzzcocks, Casualties, Circle Jerks, Civet, Clash, Cramps, Cure, Dead End Age, Dead Kennedys, Descendants, Dillinger Four, Distillers, Dollyrots, Dropkick Murphys, Even In Blackouts, Face To Face, Flight Of The Conchords, Flogging Molly, F**ked Up, Fugazi, Gogol Bordello, Goldfinger, Gorillaz, Green Day, H2O, Hot Water Music, Iggy Pop…, Jello Biafra…, Joan Jett, Lagwagon, Late Of The Pier, Leatherface, Led Zeppelin, Less Than Jake, Lipstick Homicide, The Lonely Island, MC Frontalot, Me First And The Gimmie Gimmies, Millencolin, Misfits, Mochipet, NoFX, Oblivion, Operation Ivy, Pennywise, Pinhead Gunpowder, Pixies, Pretty Lights, Primus, Propagandhi, Queers, Ramones, Rancid, Real McKenzies, Reel Big Fish, Replacements, Rise Against, Screeching Weasel, Sex Pistols, Sick Of Sarah, Soviettes, Star F**king Hipsters, Suicidal Tendencies, Sum 41, Swingin’ Utters, Teenage Bottlerockets, Thanks, Tiger Piss, Tsunami Bomb, Unfun, Vandals, Virgin Whores, + many many more.
6. Please disclose the most embarrassing music moment or concert you’ve attended or album you’ve bought (perhaps even shameful)?
I saw *cough* Clay Aiken *cough* in concert with my mommy once.
7. What are your hobbies and interests?
Well of course music, but besides that I love movies, watching most sports, animals, anything nerdy and techy.
8. When you are not at work or KVSC, where can you most likely be found?
The Rare times I am not at KVSC I am usually in class or hanging out with friends since I am a college student.
9. If it were the end of the world and you could only take five things with you, what would they be (BE HONEST)?
Well first of all the world will end in 2012… that’s just fact and you know it’s true because it’s on the internet. So we are all screwed.
10. What do you think is the future of radio?
One word: Mike Jones.
