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Historically, AM radio hasn't typically been associated with anything cool, but in 1982, KJET 1600 AM decided to change that. Well before alternative music and radio stations dedicated to it were a thing, Seattle's KJET was making it happen and doing it on the AM dial. Billing themselves as a 'modern rock' station, KJET played an eclectic mix of new wave and rock music that otherwise didn't fit into the silos of radio in the early '80s. Despite the station's overwhelming popularity, six years after launching, the station was flipped to an oldies format in preparation for a sale. Needless to say, it was a disaster, but there was no going back, so Seattle would have to wait a few more years until a new FM alternative station launched.

Historically, AM radio hasn't typically been associated with anything cool, but in 1982, KJET 1600 AM decided to change that.

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Jars of Clay is a Christian rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. The members met at Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois. Jars of Clay consists of Dan Haseltine on vocals, Charlie Lowell on piano and keyboards, Stephen Mason on lead guitars and Matthew Odmark on rhythm guitars.

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The unheralded college rock band Dharma Bums garnered a passionate cult of fans, especially in their hometown of Portland, Oregon, but the group broke up just when the Pacific Northwest was attracting media attention for its underground music scene. Originally calling themselves the Afterludes, they later changed it to the Dharma Bums. The group used money from sold-out gigs in Portland to visit Seattle in search of a label, finding one with PopLlama. In 1988, they released the Dharma Bums' first album, Haywire. "Boots of Leather" was a smash on college radio, leading the band to a new deal with Frontier in 1989. Many expected the Dharma Bums to be a breakthrough alt-rock act of the Northwest music scene, but that wasn't in the cards.