hollow earth radio

seattle's silliest goobers - hollow earth radio is a low-power fm radio station based somewhere in seattle, washington.

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Hey, chat. Whoops! I was sleeping. Hollow Earth Radio is still up, running, alive, and quite well! We're in the long, long process of getting our new website up, which, when the time comes, will fall under [woah there bucko, can't tell them that].

For now, keep your ear out from updates here and wherever else you can find us. As for the rest of us...

We, at the end of the summer, wrapped up a very successful Magma Fest 2025, from August 22-24th, this time, featuring a long list of wonderful local acts here in Seattle, like Kapslok, Bazaar, Catica, The Rat Utopia Experiment, and more! We love and adore you, Seattle art scene. On top of all that, we're still booking shows, with one left this year out of a total of seven. Keep an ear out for our end-of-year show, Seattle! Love from the centre of the earth, Your host, Ambercore!

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Amber-C here. I live. We have some Cool Stuff in the works for this summer. Stay tuned!

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And.. We’re back!

Good evening LPFM enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists, Seattlites, Tumblrites, weirdos, eldritch mountain creatures and the like. We are Hollow Earth Radio, Seattle’s coolest (supposedly) low power FM radio station, and this is our Tumblr blog. I’m your host Ambercore (Amber for short, not to be confused with the other Amber, one of our founders), and also the mascot. I came out of the earth sometime many years ago, and now I’m here.

Blog under re-construction. See you soon! ;;;;)

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Coming up live at the station Saturday night! An in-studio stacked with the PNW's finest weirdo/noise rock bands 🎉 Come hang out with us IRL at our Central District space, on the dial in Seattle @ 104.9 FM & online everywhere at hollowearthradio.org 📻 Donation-based entry & always all-ages! 👽 (at Hollow Earth Radio)

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We're hosting an extra-special live in-studio Friday night with a few of Seattle's best and weirdest! @newaxeyes @wallofears @voxmod This triple-stacked bill promises to realign the cosmos (sigh~ we can dream) with hyperkinetic synthetic pulses, mind-expanding psych and alienoid experimental flourishes. Join us in person at 2018 E. Union St. or online everywhere at 8 pm! 🤖👾🎉

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Coming up Friday Nov. 10th, we're hosting a poetry reading 📖 launch party for Rena Priest's 'Patriarchy Blues' -- full details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/123724028306320??ti=ia (at Hollow Earth Radio)

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Check out this great hardcore/screamo line-up at the station tonight! The Helm - WA’s harrowing hardcore. Their album “Symptoms Come To Light” is five songs of dirge-filled riffs mastered by the great Jack Shirley at Atomic Garden Studios (Comadre, Deafheaven, Funeral Diner, etc.) Feat. members of Earth Control & Post/Boredom. Eyelet (Maryland) - Call and response vocals with tasteful melodies in between tumultuous and frantic, prime screamo. Feat. members of MNWA. Nación de Humo - A plume of minimalist noisy soundscapes that offer escapism. (at Hollow Earth Radio)

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A recording of Wednesday's No New Youth Jail Seattle’s Press Conference is airing right now! You can read about it here: http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/01/12/24798256/activists-hold-anti-incarceration-rally-outside-youth-jail-after-filing-appeal-to-block-reconstruction-permits

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WHEN’S IT GONNA BLOW?!?!?!?!???

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Jamey Braden (WET PAINT DMM, Footwork) sent us this new KHUH infomercial to convince YOU to help get our weirdo vibes on the FM dial. We've only got a couple days left and we are so close, let's make it happen: http://igg.me/at/khuh

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KHUH (art by Eric Ostrowski)

Help Hollow Earth Radio get on the air: http://igg.me/at/khuh

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Gabi of Stickers - I Want To Live In A World With Hollow Earth Radio FM

Help make it happen here: http://igg.me/at/khuh

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Come party for the cause! Poster by the incredible Emory Liu! We love it!

You can also support via http://igg.me/at/khuh

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Hollow Earth Radio Finally On The Airwaves?!?!?!?

Hollow Earth Radio has a broadcast license for 100.3 KHUH! But we need your to help make it happen: http://igg.me/at/khuh

Hollow What?

Hollow Earth Radio is primarily known as a free-form, online, absolutely 100% volunteer-run radio station. With such a large volunteer base, and surrounded by such creative, diverse communities, Hollow Earth is many different things to different people. Here’s a few of the other roles we embody:

A popular, accessible forum for underrepresented music, sound, and neighborhood perspectives that gives people who have never been on the air a chance to broadcast.

A non-profit with a current pool of over 150 volunteers, connecting and working together to create a shared community space.

A loyal supporter of the local music and arts community in Seattle, Washington State, and the Pacific Northwest region.

A DIY music venue hosting hundreds of intimate public in-studios in our tiny space.

A collection of music nerds geeking out hard on: found sounds, field recordings, forgotten music, local musicians and their bedroom recordings, and whatever else feels real and mysterious.

A team of citizen journalists working hard to represent their communities.

Organizers of Magma Festival, an annual month-long showcase of our favorite artists. No artist is allowed to play Magma Festival more than once to keep the festival bookings fresh and to keep us reaching deeper into more diverse communities of music and art.

A critical part of Seattle’s all-ages arts and music community.

An inclusive organization dedicated to fostering safer spaces and committed to anti-oppression work.

Just a few examples of the cool stuff we’ve been doing include:

Showcasing emerging artists, convincing broken up bands to reunite, hosting wild shows ON THE LINK LIGHT RAIL, and more as part of Magma Festival.

Producing CENTRAL SOUNDS, a radio program that focuses on the cultural legacy of the Central District neighborhood (celebrated childhood home of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Wheedle’s Groove and many other significant artists) as well as  current music from the neighborhood.

Serving as Youth Arts teachers: radio training for youth, radio plays, field recording, and circuit breaking old electronic toy instruments to make wild new sounds!

Hosting a wide variety of events, including everything from literary readings (Furnace, TMI, Babel/Salvage) to free-style impromptu hip-hop nights with audience participation (The Art Show w/ OC Notes).

Being a radio station where you can hear a single 19-hour long live piece of music being played (2010, Jack Straw’s version of Erik Satie’s Vexations).

Partnering with organizations such as Short Run, ZAPP, What the Bleep Happened to Hip Hop?, CARW, Sissy Collective and more to provide workshop and event space.

Acting as mobile broadcasting rabble-rousers, who once streamed a live performance from the #ShellNo protest barge in Alki.

Having a phone line where anyone can call and leave messages to be aired. No really, call us! (206) 588-KHER.

This project is a small experiment that started as a dream in a basement in someone’s house and has grown into a living, breathing community hub for experimentation and free-expression. We do this because we care passionately about sharing new ideas, supporting media justice and keeping the freak vibe alive! Did we mention we have done all this for the past nine years, and no one gets paid?

THE NEXT CHAPTER

In October of 2013 the FCC opened a new licensing window which made available several Low Power FM (LPFM) frequencies for non-commercial organizations & non-profit organizations including Hollow Earth Radio.

Hollow Earth Radio was approved for an LPFM license for the frequency 100.3 FM, with the call-letters KHUH!!!!!

This means we have a very special opportunity to start broadcasting over the airwaves and bring the sounds and messages we have been supporting to a wider audience. We’re so incredibly thrilled about what this means for our future and our ability to serve our community.

Now, we just need your support to actually get us on the air!

Sweet, how can I help?

We have been running this station for many years on an incredibly small budget, with no paid staff, and hours and hours of volunteer time.

And we will keep doing that. But your pledge will give us real life, tangible stuff that we need in order to get on the air.

The very basic absolutely essential bare necessities to get 100.3 KHUH up and broadcasting:

1. A transmitter and an antenna to be placed on a roof in the Central District.

2. Studio-to-Transmitter link to get our broadcast from our studio to the antenna location further south in the Central District.

3. Covering the cost of radio engineering studies (all the technical paperwork, diagrams, and weird radio nerd stuff we need to file with the FCC).

4. City permit fees for the site of our antenna.

5. Terrestrial broadcast royalty fees and miscellaneous technical costs.

To make this happen we need to raise $25,000.

Yeah, this sounds cool and all, but why radio?

Upon moving HER studios into the Central District, the organization has made it a priority to develop programming that engages the historical and cultural legacy of the neighborhood while also providing resources directly to the diverse communities and interest groups that live and work here. We strive to build community in the Central District by supporting marginalized voices and sounds.

After numerous years of community-run online broadcasting, recognition through Seattle’s Genius Awards and other grants and accolades, HER hopes that, by having a hyperlocal community radio station, residents in the surrounding neighborhood will feel even more empowered to get involved and use our public space. We want to help provide the infrastructure to share underrepresented sounds, ideas, and perspectives with and for our neighbors. With a short-range LPFM radio station we will have the opportunity to reach even more people in our community, including a whole new segment that doesn’t have a reliable way to access our current internet-based broadcasts or content.

A radio station is a lot more than the music it plays. It’s a nexus for communities to dialog in the public; share resources and learn together; gain valuable skills and connections; find a voice; be inspired, and to play.

Read more about us:

http://www.cityartsonline.com/articles/100-watt-revolution

http://seattleglobalist.com/2015/02/19/lpfm-low-power-fm-seattle-community-radio-gentrification/34087

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-area-to-celebrate-new-fm-hyperlocal-radio/

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/amber-kai-morgan-and-garrett-kelly/Content?oid=19829072

Check out what we’re doing right now, find more ways to get involved, and tune in for a bit:

http://www.hollowearthradio.org/

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Help us get the word out! Share this far and wide! We’re in crunch time!!!!!!!!!

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WHO WANTS AN ALL EXPENSE PAID SASQUATCH ADVENTURE???

Hollow Earth Radio has two weeks to try and raise $25,000 so we can finally broadcast on the FM dial here in Seattle as …