Adult album alternative
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Adult Album Alternative (also Triple-A, AAA, or Adult Alternative) is a radio format broadcast mostly on FM. Its roots may have been established sometime during the 60's from what was called Underground music and later progressive. The radio format has a broader, more diverse playlist than most other formats and tends to appeal more to adults than to teenagers. Less played tracks are also common. Musical selection tends to be on the fringe of mainstream popular music and rock music as well as many other music genres such as alternative rock, alternative country, jazz, folk music, world music and blues. The musical selections tend to shy away from hard rock and rap music. Some Triple-A stations bill themselves under the slogan "World Class Rock". "Quality Music", or "Finest Rock" Music selection also includes tracks from albums that are not singles, which leads to the enhanced and larger playlist.
Billboard magazine does not carry a Triple-A chart, so songs which are very successful in this format may not ever chart in the United States. However, Triple-A songs sometimes manage to chart on the Adult Top 40, Modern Rock, or (less often) Adult Contemporary chart. Additonally, Radio and Records, a news magazine devoted to radio and the music industry, charts stations in various formats including Triple A.
Radio stations
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United States
- KBAC 98.1 Las Vegas/Santa Fe, New Mexico / 95.9 Albuquerque "Radio Free Santa Fe"
- KBCO 97.3 Boulder/Denver
- KBXR 102.3 Columbia, Missouri
- KCMP 89.3 Minneapolis/St. Paul, "The Current" (noncommercial, service of Minnesota Public Radio)
- KDEC 100.5 Decorah, Iowa "FM 100.5"
- KDRB 106.3 Des Moines, Iowa "Capital 106.3"
- KFOG 104.5 San Francisco, San Jose, California, Los Altos, California
- KGSR 107.1 Austin
- KHUM 104.7 Humboldt County, California
- KMTT 103.7 Seattle, "The Mountain"
- KPRI 102.1 San Diego
- KRVI 95.1 Fargo, North Dakota/Moorhead, Minnesota "River 95.1"
- KTAO 101.9 Taos, New Mexico
- KTBG 90.9 Warrensburg, Missouri, "The Bridge"
- KTCZ 97.1 Minneapolis/St. Paul, "Cities 97"
- KQMT 99.5 Denver, "The Mountain"
- WGVX 105.1/105.3/105.7 Minneapolis/St. Paul, "Drive 105"
- WDST 100.1 Poughkeepsie, New York "Radio Woodstock"
- [WFIV] 105.3 Farragut, Tennessee Independent Radio
- WFPK 91.9 Louisville, Kentucky
- WFUV 90.7 New York City (noncommercial)
- WLKK 107.7 Buffalo, New York, "The Lake"
- WMMM 105.5 Madison, Wisconsin "Triple M"
- WMVY 92.7 Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts "mvyradio"
- WNRN 91.9 Charlottesville / 88.1 Shenandoah Valley / 103.1 Richmond / 95.1 Harrisonburg / 95.9 Lexington, Virginia (noncommercial)
- WOCM 98.1 Ocean City, Maryland "Ocean 98"
- WRLT 100.1 Nashville, Tennessee "WRLT Lightning 100"
- WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, Maryland "WRNR
- WRNX 100.3 Amherst, Massachusetts "WRNX"
- WRSI 93.9 and 101.5 Northampton, Massachusetts "WRSI the River"
- WRUR 88.5 Rochester, New York "Different Radio"
- KKRM 96.7 Montevideo, Minnesota "KRAM 96 FM"
- WTTS 92.3 Bloomington-Indianapolis
- WUKY 91.3 Lexington, Kentucky
- WVJW 94.1 Wheeling, West Virginia, "The Voice of Dissent" (noncommercial)
- WWVV-FM 104.9 Savannah, Georgia "Wave 104.9"
- WQKL 107.1 Ann Arbor, Michigan, "Ann Arbor's 107one"
- WXPK 107.1 White Plains, New York, "The Peak"
- WXPN 88.5 Philadelphia (noncommercial)
- WXRT 93.1 Chicago, "93-XRT, Chicago's Finest Rock"
- WXRV 92.5 Boston, "The River"
- WXRY 99.3 Columbia, "The Independent Alternative"
- WYEP-FM 91.3 Pittsburgh (noncommercial)
- WZEW 92.1 Fairhope/Mobile, Alabama
- WZGC 92.9 Atlanta, "Dave FM"
- [SlothRadio Internet radio] Salt Lake City, UT
- The Spectrum (18), Sirius Disorder (24) and The Coffeehouse (30) on Sirius Satellite Radio
- XM Cafe (45), The Loft (50) and Hear Music (75) on XM Satellite Radio
Canada
- CKFE 100.7 Winnipeg, Manitoba, "Cafe 100"
- CFML 107.9 Burnaby, British Columbia, "Evolution 107-9"
See also
- List of Adult Alternative artists
- Adult contemporary, a format with a much more pop-oriented playlist, that is much softer and not too adventurous.
External links
- [triplearadio.com] - website devoted to the Triple-A format
- [RadioAndRecords.com] - Radio and Records website, complete format news and charts
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