Welcome to Wave 1049 Online!

We are Savannah and Hilton Head's alternative for the best music ever, with a library of thousands of songs that you're going to love along with many that you already do! If ordinary radio stations aren't doin' it for you, then click a listen-link in the upper right-hand corner of any page on the site to enjoy the freshest alternative rock radio you'll find anywhere.

We play:

• New Music first
• Music written and performed by people with actual, discernable talent
• Alternative & Indie Rock for discriminating listeners
• Mostly upbeat, positive songs

We do not play:

• Classic Rock
• Typical bar-scene music or Top 40
• Artists who can't sing without AutoTune
• Rap
• Music which is incendiary, misogynistic, or hateful

We also feature lots of video content, and we'll keep you up to speed with new releases by Wave artists and other music-related news. Follow us on Twitter and/or Facebook (left side of the page) to stay up-to-date.

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Live the life you love. Be very politically active. Support the rights of others to live the lives they love, with utter disregard for what some repressed fools think about it. Those who are repressed will never accept your right to be you, so you must be ever diligent to ensure a crushing political defeat for everyone who thinks that their beliefs would supercede your rights.

If you love your freedom, then you must vote at absolutely every single opportunity. Those who hate women, minorities, and gay people have mobilised to deny them their rights, guaranteed under the US Constitution, at the federal, state, and local levels. If you love your freedom, if you love your women, it is incumbent upon you to do everything you can to ensure a crushing defeat for every Republican, or Tory, if you're in Canada or, pretty much, any other western nation in the world, to prevent them from holding any political office. Never skip an election, even a local-only election. Never pass up on your opportunity to eject ideologically crazy persons from any and all public offices. If you can't live and let live, you do not deserve to hold public office. You deserve no consideration if you cannot extend that same consideration to others, even if it's against the precepts of your personal favourite faerie tale. If your only justification for your opinions is, maybe, a handful of passages in a book written by drifters and nomads of the zeroeth century, then maybe you shouldn't vote, but rather, be committed. Commit yourself. Or, be like the Amish and detach. The rest of the world will be less inclined to despise you for it.

There is no war on religion, but there can be. If you insist. Or, you can live and let live. And stop being stupid. Recognise when you are being played, and if you are, even remotely, sympathetic to Republican ideology, then you are complicit in an evil plot to exploit your fears and are choosing to help those who will, ultimately, bring you down. They are not on your side, but they certainly don't mind if you are deluded into thinking that they are. Those who feed and cater to your fears don't mind feeding you the notion that you may, one day, be rich as Mitt, but they know that this is highly unlikely. Do you know this, too? Or are you their fool?

The only acceptable life is the one that you love. If that life is contingent upon denying others their right to love their own lives, then you forfeit your right to live the life that you love, and you deserve to live the same horrible life that you would inflict upon others by virtue of some imaginary notion that you are, somehow, holier than they whose lifestyle choices you oppose. You can judge others, but the truth is that no matter how holy you perceive yourself to be, you are just another sinner. You are no better, and no worse, than those whom you judge. They are no more deserving of your judgment than you are of theirs. They are no more deserving of your evil, selfish nature to oppress them than you are of any similar nature that they may, one day, use against you. The difference is that they don't deserve the trouble that you bring into their lives, but you are completely deserving of any that they bring unto you, because you started it. So, stop being a dick. Stop being a jerk. Live and let live, so that ye may live, free of the hassles and evils that others would never visit upon you, were it not for your selfish desire to inflict your will upon others.

In short, grow up and be grateful for what you have. You never know when some asshole is going to try to steal your joy away from you.

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What if... A Million "Sluts" got together and started a new protest movement?

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Sooo... Mr. Man-Pig calls a nice, brave college gal an s-l-u-t, and takes a pretty serious sponsor-hit due to public backlash. Excellent!

But, there are a lot of like-minded people, many of whom call themselves "Christian", echoing his sentiments, and echoing his word, apparently unaware that the #1 synonym for slut is...

...sinner! Which makes these so-called Christians no better, then, doesn't it?

As you might have guessed, I got a thing or two to say about that...

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Taylor Mali — What Teachers Make

"Those who can, do, while those who can't teach." Not something you want to say to this guy!

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If I were to make a list of my top 100 problems...

...big government wouldn't even make the cut. If you're not a bazillionnaire, big government doesn't affect you. If you are a bazillionnaire, big government isn't going to significantly change that.

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Britain's Massive Strike Against Austerity — Could It Happen Here?

Millions of employees in Great Britain mounted the first General Strike in many years today, after the country's coalition government threatened to impose more cuts in retirement benefits and pay for public workers.

It was a smash success. As many as two million strikers proved that the public's patience with the unjust fiscal regime known as "austerity economics" has its limits. It highlighted the important role unions can and must play in the fight for a more just and stable economy.

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Foster the People cover The Strokes' Machu Picchu

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The Worst Place in America to Have HIV

Recently, an elderly woman in Mississippi was left alone on the curb outside a hospital emergency room. The woman didn't have a medical emergency. She'd been dumped by the nursing room employees who had learned that she had HIV, according to a lawyer at the Mississippi Center for Justice to whom she was eventually referred.

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Ray Stevens put out a song that the lib'ruls are gonna hay-yate!

Yup. He did it.

One of the USA's great comedic writers has gone and written a song critical of our beloved President's budget! The nerve!

Apparently, he done gone and made a video for it, too!

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Understanding the History and Purpose of Fox News

FOX is a "relentless agenda-driven 24 hour news opinion propaganda delivery system" ~Jon Stewart

"They're a Republican brand. They're an extension of the Republican Party with some exceptions" ~Larry King

"[Fox is] widely viewed as a part of the Republican Party: take their talking points and put them on the air, take their opposition research and put it on the air. And that's fine. But let's not pretend they're a news organization like CNN is." ~Anita Dunn

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Leslie Feist made an appearance on CBC promoting her new album Metals, available now.

Emerging from the whirlwind surrounding her blockbuster album The Reminder, with its infectious and ubiquitous pop hit 1234, Canadian singer-songwriter Leslie Feist needed a break.

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Visit Feist's website for all the latest.

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The change you crave cannot rest on the shoulders of one man. You have to pick a side and consistently vote for that side, without fail, without exception. The evil ones win when you don't participate. Your complacency is why we have a Tea Party problem. It's why we have a Repugnican problem — problems you can fix.

It's not enough to believe in the power of goodwill. You have to learn. You have to be smarter than your opponents — armed with knowledge to support your position, and the temerity to ensure that your opponents have the knowledge to support theirs. Armed with your knowledge, they'll come around, for you can't have a human heart, know what's going on and support those who are responsible.

America is the land of the bloodless revolution. You want to win this war? Then bring your brain. Your vote is your voice. Your ballot is your bullet. Take your shot at every election! And bring your friends...

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Them fightin' words come from a comedian by the name of Rob Delaney, who I follow on Twitter - because he's funny. He's also pretty smart, it turns out, even if he has voted GOP at some point in his life.

Read more of Rob's excellent article here.

He mentions in the article that he's voted in every presidential election since 1996 (when he was old enough to do so), but he doesn't mention any other elections, which brings us to a very important point:

You have to vote in all the elections.

Whether you're a leftie or a rightie, you don't get change unless you vote-in a majority across several election cycles. The right has been pretty good about mobilizing their base over issues that don't really matter in terms of actually accomplishing any good works for the country. The left needs to do the same, only with sound logic and reason, focusing on issues that really do matter. They win by getting their base scared and angry. We don't need fear, but we need your anger! If you really want change, you cannot 'sit this one out'. Inadequate voter participation is the single greatest reason why they are able to derail so much badly needed progress in this country. You need to learn, get motivated (mad, if necessary) and get your ass out and VOTE! At absolutely every single opportunity. Or, you can just sit it out and wonder what happened when you realize that all of your rights as a citizen have been stolen from you... no biggie.

More great content on Rob's website.

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Wave 1049 Online is an independently owned, local Internet radio station built on the foundation laid by the former Wave 104.9, Hilton Head, which ceased operation on November 1st, 2006.

We play 56+ minutes of music per hour, more than any commercial FM station, all 100% digital and static-free.  Unlike nationally-oriented Internet radio services, we are focused on our local communities - because we are part of the local community, just like you.

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