Kerrang Radio

I listen to Kerrang mostly because my other choices suck. Kerrang plays a decent amount of alternative music, which I like, and doesn't play anything by the Jonas Brothers, which is always a plus. They helped me discover Cake and the Flobots, though god knows why they played Coldplay earlier.

So, yeah, Kerrang's music isn't a problem. The DJs, on the other hand...

Well, first of all, they all seem to be thirty-year-olds attempting to be "down with the kids". Now, I haven't actually checked anyone's age - that's just an impression.

Oh, and another bit of hypocrisy - Kerrang, like most radio stations aimed at teenagers, includes those government-issued alcoholic health warnings. At the same time, they're playing their own adverts, which state "because weekends are made to be only vaguely remembered".

Honestly, does no one working there ever listen to the bollocks they're putting out?

Anyway, the reason I've picked them to rant about is due to something I heard this afternoon. Apparently, they're doing a new things called "points of view" (or something like that - I confess to being too distracted to turn the damn thing off at the time). It seems to consist of them digging around internet messageboards as if they're a completely new thing and making fun of people for posting on them. Not necessarily anything they've written - just the fact that they took the time to write it. Apparently, anyone who writes anything online is lacking a life. Which doesn't quite explain why the Kerrang website includes blogs for its DJs. Another attempt to make them appear "hip"?

Internet message boards have been around for, what, fifteen, twenty years now? Why has Kerrang only just appeared to notice? And is everyone involved really so ignorant as to think that this is somehow "cool", to make fun of anyone involved in the online world?

Fucks sake - at least pretend to keep up.