Brooklyn Radio Relaunch

Why do we like Brooklyn Radio? Probably because it’s not actually a radio station, which is good because we don’t listen to the radio anymore. On their newly relaunched website, you won’t find call letters or frequency numbers. Instead of through the airwaves, you can listen to Brooklyn Radio from its website via podcast and streaming audio. You can choose which of the shows (each are updated regularly) you want to listen to, and you can listen at your leisure — free to skip ahead or to pause, if you like.

The new site is an attractive blog format, with a menu of the station’s programming down the left side of the page. Under the “columns” tab there is even some purely editorial content. Overall, the tone of the site (and the columns) is pleasingly informal and comedic. Some of the shows available for a listen include The Rub, which ran a best-of Ghostface show this week, and The Dope Spot, which kicked off its most recent show with a funktastic Bob Marley remix. The Dope Spot’s DJ, Dan Martino, sums up the Brooklyn Radio project best himself. “Good evening, good afternoon, good morning, whenever it is you’re listening,” he says, “this is not real world time; this is internet time.” Yes, it is.