Area 22 Radio

Area 22 Radio Area 22 is an internet radio show heard on the public station Radio Fairfax every Wednesday 6-8PM Eastern! First Broadcast: October 1, 2008

Generally music from the late 70s thru today... with a strong emphasis on Indie Rock. Take a look at our playlists. We bet you'll see something you like. Take a listen and we bet you'll hear something new that you will like! Hosted by:
Brian Murphey
Nikki Blake

The show is streamed live every Wednesday, 6-8pm U.S. Eastern Time...
• Internet Web Browser: http://fcac.broadcasttool.stream/high
• Di

rectly on your mobile device: http://fcac.broadcasttool.stream/high
• TuneIn app: http://tunein.com/radio/Radio-Fairfax-s24818/
• Simulcast on Ch. 37: Verizon FiOS, Cox, Comcast (Fairfax & Loudoun)

BANDS
We love playing new unknown/underknown bands. If you think your band fits in with the other stuff on our playlists feel free to email us and get us a copy to review/play! (WAV, AAC, & 320k MP3 only) [email protected]

OUR SHOW NAME
Several people have asked so...
Area 22 is a section of the brain which allows you to differentiate between melody, pitch, and sound intensity.

10/16/2025

Area 22 Radio #753
Wednesday October 15, 2025

bby "Fuggit"
Sam quealy "Londontown"
Killing Kind "Dance"
Nation of Language "I'm Not Ready for the Change"
Old Mervs "Feel It"
Al Nicol "You and Me (feat. Erin Rae)"
Laura Lee & the Jettes "Home By Midnight"
BRNDA "Blenderman"
Ganser "stripe"
courtney barnett "Stay In Your Lane"
Geese "Getting Killed"
The Convenience "Target Offer"
Trauma Club "Making It Up"
Jay Som "What You Need"
HighSchool "Sony Ericsson"
Cheekface "Sucked Out" (Cover Song of the Week!)
ALIEN BOY "You Want Me Too"
TRAITRS "Burn in Heaven"
Missionary Girls "Missionary Girl"
Plantoid "Dozer"
The Technicolors "Posh Spice"
Sydney Sprague "Fair Field"
pond 1000 "daffodiL"
Juliana Hatfield "Popsicle"
Gretta Seabird "Here"
Alix Fernz "Couteau à la gorge"
Kinneret "Price of Pop (feat. Leila Lamb)"
Circa Waves@ "Cherry Bomb"
San Tropez "Baby Bells"
GUIDED BY VOICES "(You Can't Go Back To) Oxford Talawanda"

What a great set of artists! Make sure you check them out and tune into AREA 22 Radio every Wednesday only on Radio Fairfax Public Access!

10/09/2025

Area 22 Radio #752
17 Year Anniversary Show - The Looongst Song Titles
Wednesday October 8, 2025

The Wild Jumps "I'm Not Stuck in Here with You, You're Stuck in Here with Me"
Arctic Monkeys "You Probably Couldn't See for the Lights but You Were Staring Straight At Me"
illuminati hotties "Will I Get Cancelled If I Write a Song Called, "If You Were a Man You'd Be So Cancelled""
They Might Be Giants "Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal"
The B-52's "There's a Moon In the Sky (Called the Moon)"
HUNNY "Pov Ur Dead and I’m Checking My Hair in Ur Sunglasses"
Black Kids "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You"
Primitive Radio Gods "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand"
Pearl Jam "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town"
Enumclaw "Fall Came Too Soon and Now I Wanna Throw Up"
Mediocre "To Know You're Screwed is to Know a Lot"
Flaming Lips "Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever)"
The New Pornographers "All the Things That Go To Make Heaven and Earth"
Elvis Costello & The Attractions "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding"
The Beatles "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"
The Police "When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around (Remastered 2003)"
The Dandy Warhols "The Legend of the Last of the Outlaw Truckers a.k.a. the Ballad of Sheriff Shorty"
courtney barnett "Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go To The Party"
The Smiths "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before"
The Waitresses "They're All Out Of Liquor, Let's Find Another Party"
Jona Lewie "You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties"
Splodgenessabounds "Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Please"
Joe Sumner "A man without a head navigates the Intellectual Dark Web"
The Wind and The Wave "My Mama Said Be Careful Where You Lay Your Head"
The White Stripes "I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart"
Lawrence Arms "The Slowest Drink at the Saddest Bar on the Snowiest Day in the Greatest City"
Replaced By Robots "Are We Falling in Love or Am I Just Losing My Mind"
Optic Sink "A Silver Key Can Open an Iron Lock, Somewhere"
The Human League "Rock Me Again and Again and Again and Again and Again and Again (Six Times)"
Heaven 17 "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang [Rapino Edit]"
Peter Murphy "The Line Between the Devils Teeth (And That Which Cannot Be Repeated)"

What a fun show! Thanks for sticking with us through all the years. Plenty of more music to be heard, every Wednesday 6-8pm ET, 3-5pm PT only on Radio Fairfax Public Access!

OMG!! 17 years since we started this crazy ride called Area 22 Radio. On our special anniversary show today you're gonna...
10/08/2025

OMG!! 17 years since we started this crazy ride called Area 22 Radio. On our special anniversary show today you're gonna get nothing but songs with super looooong song titles that we love.
Tune in today 6-8pm eastern (3-5 pacific) on Radio Fairfax.
https://fcac.broadcasttool.stream/high

09/25/2025

Area 22 Radio #750
Wednesday September 24, 2025

The Technicolors "Posh Spice"
Orions Belte"Spark"
LASKA "Playing God"
BRONCHO "Cool"
Big Cry Country "Phenomenon"
ISTA"Low Fruit"
Geese "100 Horses"
Old Mervs "Parched"
Juliana Hatfield "Scratchers"
Wet Leg "don’t speak"
Brainwasher "Burning Cars (feat. Spaceface)"
Ganser "Half Plastic"
AloneKitty "Stay The Same"
LENE LOVICH "I Think We're Alone Now" (Cover Song of the Week!)
Capital Cities "Late For School"
BRNDA Peach Pit"
Coral Moons "Made Up My Mind"
Freak Slug "Honest Man"
Jenny on Holiday "Every Ounce of Me"
Blancmange "That's Love, That It Is" (Tribute)
Cut Copy & Kate Bollinger "Belong To You"
Platonic S*x "Shark Teeth"
Laura Lee & the Jettes "Tough Love Paradigm"
Pile "Uneasy"
Congratulations "Get 2 Me"
Rocket "Another Second Chance"
Dear Boy "Kelly Green"
HalfCutLemon "Fist"

What an amazing playlist of musicians! Make sure you check them out! Don't miss AREA 22 Radio every Wednesday on Radio Fairfax Public Access!

09/04/2025

Area 22 Radio #749
Wednesday September 3, 2025

Alix Fernz "Couteau à la gorge"
Lilies on Mars "Superlove"
Sydney Sprague "Flat Circle"
Pile "Uneasy"
Ceramic Animal "Packaged Deals"
Platonic S*x "Easy"
HUNNY "catalina"
Porcelain "Torch"
Lathe of Heaven "Portrait of a Scorched-Earth"
winter "Hide-A-Lullaby"
Nation of Language "I'm Not Ready for the Change"
Tamar Berk "ocd"
Laura Lee & the Jettes"Tough Love Paradigm"
Dear Boy "Kelly Green"
AFI "Behind the Clock"
Von Mono "Prairie Driver"
Ganser "Half Plastic"
The Hives "Hooray Hooray Hooray"
The Prize "From The Night"
Modern Life Is War "Johnny Gone"
The K's "The Bends (Here We Go Again)"
Motion City Soundtrack "She Is Afraid"
Hannah Jadagu "Doing Now"
Radio Free Alice "Toyota Camry"
Bad Suns "Just Like Magic"
Sports. "If You Want Me"
Chris LaRocca@ "ladybug"
Pool Kids "Not Too Late"
LIGHTS "DAMAGE"
Evie Irie "I'm Not Sorry"
IDLES "Cheerleader"

Thanks for tuning in! Make sure you tune in every Wednesday to catch awesome bands like these! Only on Radio Fairfax Public Access!

09/03/2025

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08/28/2025

Area 22 Radio #748
Wednesday with extra Wednesday August 27, 2025

SONS "I'm Tired"
White Lies "Nothing On Me"
THIRD OF NEVER "Rolling Down a Hill (feat. Steve Kilbey & Tara Tisch-Wallace)"
Dead Tooth "Song of the Weak"
Winter "Just Like A Flower"
Wet Leg "pond song"
Dolo Tonight "Hate You Now"
White Reaper "Honestly"
ROSCOE TRIPP "moUse Rat"
Wednesday "Bitter Everyday"
Scarlet Rae "A World Where She Left Me Out"
Rocket the Band "Act Like Your Title"
Dear Boy "Kelly Green"
Mirror Mirror "Going Through the Motions"
Oberon Rose "Sticks & Stones"
Kula Shaker "Charge of The Light Brigade"
The Linda Lindas "Found a Job" (Cover Song of the Week!)
torri weidinger "living to work"
Laptop "Weirder"
Art d'Ecco "Outcast"
ZDAN "save me (rock n roll)"
Death Doula "Disembark"
Miki Berenyi Trio "Gango"
The Cribs "Summer Seizures"
Courting "the twins (1969)"
The Hives "The Hives Forever Forever The Hives"
Eliza McLamb "Like the Boys"
Platonic S*x "Easy"
Wilby "Pleaser"
K Michelle DuBois "Tar and Scars"
David Bowie "Karma Man"

What a great show! Make sure you tune in every Wednesday 6-8pm ET/3 - 5 PT only on Radio Fairfax Public Access!

08/21/2025

Area 22 Radio #747
Wednesday August 20, 2025

Rage Against The Machine "Calm Like a Bomb"
Siouxsie And The Banshees "Circle"
Echo and the Bunnymen "Show of Strength"
David Bowie "★"
Trace Mountains "In a Dream"
courtney barnett "Are You Looking After Yourself ?"
Queen Serene "Debt Collector"
Acid Dad "Djembe"
Optic Sink "Kaleidoscope"
Devo "Head Like A Hole" (Cover Song of the Week!)
Gary Numan "M.E."
Radiohead "Weird Fishes / Arpeggi"
Babe Rainbow "Loading Quicksilver with Pitchfork"
The Rolling Stones "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"
Nice Biscuit "Rain"
LENE LOVICH BAND "Bird Song"
Geese "Undoer"
mr. Gnome "Nothing and Everything"

Check your attention span with these long songs from some great bands! Don't miss AREA 22 Radio next Wednesday 6-8pm EST, 3-5pm PST only on Radio Fairfax Public Access!

08/07/2025

Area 22 Radio #746
Wednesday August 6, 2025

The New Eves "Highway Man"ca "The One"
Neko Case "Wreck"
Dead Tooth "Song of the Weak"
thedrowningkind kind "haloes and hand grenades"
Hide and Shine "I Lived in the Light"
she's green "Willow"
"Uru Buru"
TVOD "Bend"
MercyMe "Big F**king Mess"
Motion City Soundtrack "You Know Who the F**k We Are"
BRONCHO "Think I Pass"
Cass McCombs "Peace"
Duane Hoover "When The Morning Comes"
The Beths "Metal"
Eliza McLamb "Like the Boys"
Belly "Are You Experienced" (Cover Song of the Week!)
Editrix "The Queen"
Sydney Sprague "Flat Circle"
Sloan "Dream Destroyer"
Goldie Boutilier "Goldie Montana"
Sports "If You Want Me"
The Technicolors "First Class to Nowhere (feat. Madison Cunningham)"
Ruby Sparks "Nowhere Man"
HUNNY "catalina"
K Michelle DuBois "Tar and Scars"
Pile "Uneasy"
winter "Just Like A Flower"
Bikini Trill "Cool Riff"
The Boo Boos "C'mon Baby"

What a playlist, so many great artists! Make sure you catch AREA 22 Radio every Wednesday 6-8pm EST, 3-5 PST only on Radio Fairfax Public Access!

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About Area 22 Radio

Area 22 is an internet radio show heard on the public station Radio Fairfax every Wednesday 6-8PM Eastern (3-5 Pacific)!

Generally we play music from the 80s thru today with a strong emphasis on current alternative/indie rock... Take a LISTEN and we bet you'll hear something new that you will like!

Hosted by: Brian Murphey & Nikki Blake

•• LISTEN •• The show is streamed live every Wednesday, 6-8pm U.S. Eastern Time... • Internet Web Browser: http://stream.fcac.org:8000/high • Directly on your mobile device: http://stream.fcac.org:8000/high • TuneIn app: http://tunein.com/radio/Radio-Fairfax-s24818/ • Simulcast on Ch. 37: Verizon FiOS, Cox, Comcast (Fairfax & Loudoun)