vintage radio alarm clocks

Album Review: Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too

Listening to Young Fathers triggers an outlaw rush akin to discovering low-frequency pirate radio transmissions from the future. Simultaneously The latter offers the line from which the album takes its name, alongside defiant expressions of black ...

Asheville music club scene this week

Dank, 7-9 p.m., 12 Old Charlotte Hwy., Asheville, 828-299-3370. Tasting room open 4-9 Boiler Room: Sun Brother, Running on E, Poet Radio, St. Maurice, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., $7. Classic Wineseller French Broad Brewery: Alarm Clock Conspiracy. Good ...

One boomer's treasure is another millennial's clutter

She's 93 now and it doesn't take a genius to figure out why, particularly since she's been voicing alarm that she'll die one of these days and nobody will find her. There are “It's stuff like bunches of old photos and documents, old bowls or ...

Radioland: Kraftwerk's Radio-Activity Revisited

Radioland was born – a concert using Radio-Activity as its starting point and using vintage analogue synthesisers and a vocoder to explore the central concepts of the album. “We are taking the concept of radio waves and communication, the frequency of ...

I Stopped Using My iPhone as an Alarm Clock, What Happened Next Blew My ...

BEEP BEEP! or forking out £30 on my own dawn chorus, a third way suddenly occurred to me - the good old-fashioned clock radio. And it turned out that John Lewis sells just the thing: for £40 I can wake up to the sound of the human voice, or a Radio One DJ....

Hacked Hardware Could Cause The Next Big Security Breach

It could be delivered by radio signal to a micro-antenna hidden on the chip. It could even be a simple as have game consoles. In the world of hardware hacking, any smart device—a refrigerator, clock, even a wearable fitness monitor—could be ...

The spirit that was Va. radio K-Country 108

About this time last year, Ted Shockley and I discussed an article about the Eastern Shore's old country radio station, WKRE (K-Country 108), and what it was like for me, an 18-year getting started in radio. Sadly, the time frame aligned with failing ...

Why Are Alarm Clocks Still a Thing?

We didn’t always these these archaic, fuzzy-radio-receiving, frustratingly-hard ... “It was inertia, I guess.” Other clock-users’ relationship with their old-school alarm actually had a lot to do with their smartphones. Emanuel Maiberg, a ...

FM104 won't play my records or talk about me because I dated Mark Noble, says Nadia Forde

Nadia Forde has hit out at Dublin radio station FM104 claiming they don't play her songs because her ex-boyfriend - DJ Mark Noble - works there. The 25-year-old used to date Strawberry Alarm Clock presenter Mark before she went out with Leinster star Luke ...

Soundfreaq and The Novogratz Team Up To Launch Sound Rise Flower Freaq, A Limited Edition Wireless Bedroom Speaker & Alarm Clock

First unveiled at CES 2014 and named a CES “Best of Show” finalist by iLounge, Sound Rise maintains the classic features found in old-school alarm clocks, but with much ... allowing users to wake up gently to the radio, music or alarm chime.