KTAOS

KTAOS doesn't fit a format, and that's the whole appeal. The Taos, New Mexico station has spent decades as a genuine freeform outpost, the kind of place where a folk record from the '70s bumps up against cumbia, blues, and whatever the volunteer DJs hauled in that week. You'll hear Grateful Dead deep cuts next to local Northern New Mexico musicians nobody's streaming yet. Weekends drift toward blues and bluegrass. Weeknights get stranger. Nothing here feels focus-grouped, and the segues sometimes crash into each other, but that looseness is the charm. As a United States station, it keeps that…