Today's Top Tune

KCRW, my hometown public radio station, really has a lock on the best DJs and music curators. Their picks for daily songs are the best and most interestingly eclectic I have ever heard. Subscribe and you won’t regret it!

I'm an LA girl so I've been listening to KCRW for years. and even work the pledge drives. TTT is such a great service - it's rare that I don't like the selection and it's a particularly great way to introduce yourself to world music since quite a few of the selections are from international artists. Thanks so much KCRW :-)

Pros: 1. Great variety of music posted by people who clearly care a lot about and listen to a lot of music. 2. Of the 3 podcasts KCRW is the best about posting information about the musicians they post. 3. Pretty good about getting back to you and fixing the problem when they have a problem with their feed, as occasionally happens. Cons: 1. They take yesterday's song off after 24 hours, so if you go on vacation or simply don't open up iTunes and push the refresh button in your podcast folder, you're out of luck. This strikes me as parsimonious as both KEXP and MPR have found a way to keep their posts up for a while. 2. While most of the posts are current and are a good sample of what the california musicophiles are listening to, there are occasional eccentric choices where we're suddenly listening to a Ray Charles song from 1972 or something, which is not really why I personally subscribe to a podcast like this. Having said that, I would absolutely recommend this as a necessary addition to your iTunes experience. You should definitely subscribe to this podcast and start building some cool playlists to impress your friends with how current you are.

A great way to expose yourself to new music genres and musicians. Fantastic variety to challenge one's music-snobbery. Musicians - please continue to contribute your work. I have bought many new songs after learning aobut them via this podcast.

This has always been a hit or miss podcast depending on the song. But I appreciated being able to decide right away if a song was for me. Now each song is preceded by a 15-30 second promo or ad. Please stop this! It’s incredibly annoying when you just want to hear a song. Keep the ads on your talk podcasts, that’s fine, but not here please.

I have long been a subscriber to KCRW’s Top Tune. For many years, the tune would show up daily in my iTunes. Since the move to Apple Podcast, the Top Tune episodes appear erratically in Podcasts on my MacBook. Sometimes once a week. Sometimes once a month. In trying to fix it, I have wound up with two subscriptions to it - but neither get a daily song. Also, as others have said, it is hard, if not impossible, to search for episodes that I haven’t received. I have emailed KCRW several times about these issues but have never gotten an actual reply.