KUSF Radio 90.3FM

SOOO GOOD!!! tonight is super great! Love this station xOx

Was a great place to volunteer.
Everyone at the station was extremely dedicated, creative and talented.
When I was there, we won the Gavins top college station 2 years in a row. I was the station rep, and it was fabulous!
I produced a comedy show, and was privileged to host some of our finest comics of the time.
I had the best time. Thank You KUSF.
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RIP 90.3: (
Long live Rampage Radio \m/

Love, love, love KUSF. If you want to keep up with new music and support bands on independent labels this is the place to hear new music you will love!
All of our radios are tuned into KUSF (except at 6pm when Chinese Star Radio comes on, then we switch to KPOO or KALX). The DJs are wonderful and super, nice if you call in! They give away lots of tickets, to the first caller so you can only imagine the number of listeners they have.
I love this radio station so much that I do a stuff drive twice a year to get stuff that i can donate to Community Thrift in their name so they get more $$$. Support KUSF!!!

KUSF… I don’t believe I have EVER listened to you in the car or on an actual radio, but I do love you for your archived shows and when I have listened live online. True, I don’t like all of the shows. Sometimes the music makes me want to puncture my eardrums. But you know what I do when that happens? I put on KCRW (thank you, Santa Monica College, for providing one of the best NPR stations in the EVER!!). Sure, some of your DJs have that awkward college babble going on – but when has that ever NOT been preferable to the Live 105 douchebags talking stupid over the beginning of the one song ever 90 minutes that I actually like, or the smooth jazz radio vocal stylings of KFOG DJs? That’s right: it’s ALWAYS better.
If you want to listen to punk rock, you can find it on KUSF. If you want underground hip-​hop or death metal, just find the right DJ and you’re set. Hell, if you want to listen to people speaking Cantonese or Russian, I’m sure you’ll be able to find that sometimes, too. I’m currently listening to a jazz show on the archive, and I’m quite enjoying it.
Like all college and community-​run radio stations, this is truly an independent station, and, consequently, what you hear is what the DJs want to listen to. It may not always be up your alley, but it’s better than having to listen to Linkin Park and Sublime on repeat or the same Stevie Ray Vaughn songs that KFOG has been playing for 20 years. Where else are you going to find this diversity?
That’s right: nowhere. Well, except for other independent/​college stations, I guess. But that’s not the point! The point is that, if you’re ever bored and in need of a music fix (whatever your poison of choice, even if it’s Poison!),
has a plethora of prerecorded shows for your listening enjoyment.
You’ll never go back to corporate radio again. Trust me.

KUSF is awesome, they play a lot of unknown bands that r kick ass but would never get play on a «commercial» radio station. I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because on Mondays they play the weirdest noises, not really music, but sounds, for hours at a time. Other than that its a kick ass radio station, avoiding the mainstream.

I can turn on KUSF and 70% of the time I enjoy/​understand what I hear. Oh well, I am 31. Still, commercial-​free, independent and local… if you love music, if you live in the bay, you listen to KUSF.

*update*
my number 1 station on the pre-​sets/​dial
can’t say i can listen to the live from China feed for long, but the variety of shows are great, real community radio shit with a SF flavor. i’ve heard some of the best eclectic music.
reminds me of ‘Resonance’ a londan based art radio station that i was a big fan of. you can listen to it online too.
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6 months off the boat here in SF and have been struggling to really like your local radio. tend to have 105 on in the car but if i hear that i have a ‘friend in the diamond business’ one more time i might …
just came across rampage 90.3 from the radio in my apartment, then i find out that you’re based 2 blocks away. so proper local indeed.
love it. keep on not being my friend in the diamond business.

(In response to Teal)
KUSF has been like an ex-​girlfriend to me. I fell in love with her (as a listener), I dated her (became a jock there), and have broken up with her (I had to move on after 20 years)…and now I just stalk her (that makes me creepy right?).
Every now and then, I would sub a show for kicks. (Kinda like one of those 3 a.m. booty calls to the ex). I do miss it and you might say I’ve made a name for myself throughout those years, but in reality, it was time for me to move on (was not fun for me anymore).
New Music programing will always hold a special spot for me (Midnights to 6 p.m.) since that’s where I had my start — and if I may stroke it’s ego, it pretty much started the College Radio format some 30 odd years ago.
And RAMPAGE RADIO will alway rule. (During the heydays of SF thrash, you’d find bands like Metallica, Exodus, Death Angel and Testament hangin’ out in the hallowed halls of KUSF and DJ Ron Quintana).
If it wasn’t for stations like KUSF (KALX in the East Bay and KFJC in the South Bay), radio would be pretty boring. As a matter of fact, it had become boring and just recently is starting to catch up… to little too late if you ask me.
All hail KUSF, the PODcasts, Internet Radio and SIRIUS/​XM Satellite. Commercial radio, your days are numbered.

I sort of hate radio. Not all of it, but I loathe the loop of news/​weather/​traffic/​commercials and strictly-​controlled playlists that make up most of the dial. Ever since I was about 14, this station has led me through the bleak radio darkness and into the commercial-​free light. When I was an angry teen, I found my anthems there. Now that I’m not so angry, I find inspiration in new and unusual music and juxtapositions I couldn’t hear anywhere else. I trust these people with my ears.

Best radio station in the city, methinks. I’m partial because I go to USF and have done a little work with the station, but looking at the facts, there’s basically scientific proof that it rocks.
a. community, volunteer-​based, local-​focus, non-​corporate! nuff said
b. cultural programming is AWESOME! spices things up, and keeps it diverse.
c. most variety, most new music, most diversity. isn’t that what SF’s all about?
d. free tickets! if you’re too lazy to listen throughout the week, just listen Fridays at 4 p.m. to get free tickets to almost any cool concert that’s going down over the weekend.
okay, I love this station. i’m gonna go turn it on right now to see what craziness those djs are up to now.

I’ve been listening to this station for over 20 years. The impact KUSF made on me during my formative years has stayed with me into my 40’s. Rampage Radio is solely responsible for making me the über-​obsessed metal merchant I am today. I owe most of this to Ron Quintana.
\m/​Long live Rampage Radio! \m/

By day, it’s pretty much the only tolerable radio station in SF. Sadly I can only make it about halfway to work (on the peninsula) before the signal fades into oblivion.
Sometimes it’s a little too aware that it’s a college station and a bit too into the fact that it can play weird crap and not worry what people think; but not nearly as much as KALX. It would be perfect if it weren’t for most of the «cultural» programming at night. I suppose that’s their charter or something. The German music on Thursday nights is priceless, though. I wonder if Americans sang all of their songs in German if it would sound as dark and menacing to them as Germans singing songs in English does to me?
Anyway, KUSF totally beats slamming my head into the wall repeatedly, which itself beats listening to most of the rest of the radio stations in the «Yay Area».

In addition to all the other often interesting, occasionally fantastic music, sometimes you broadcast some truly weird-​ass sh** that makes me want to scream. However…
THANK you for being the ONLY local station that broadcasts the Metropolitan Opera’s «Live From The Met» on Saturday.

The wilder collection of musical range: hip-​hop, techno, Euro rock, rock, punk, pseudo J pop, Metropolitan Opera, and not sucked out by the vortex of Clear Channel mindless computerized, duplicated same everyday sort of Ground Hog Day dejavu stuff with too many advertisements sucking the lifeblood and livelihood from any thinking, intelligent musician. May the KUlture of SF radio continue! Thank you.

Thank you, KUSF for all those early morning shows that pick me up when I am driving to work out. Rarely do I feel so indebted to my dj’s for making my day and teaching me things! Without fail, no matter how out-​there the music is, I love it. Favorites are probably Jet, on Friday, and Wednesday morning (steve-​o?) I don’t know. It’s the best except for when I am leaving work and I don’t understand the chinese programming.