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Kpiss, Bushwick’s Internet Radio, Broadcasts from a Shipping Container in Punk Alley

"We're the golden stream!"

Kpiss, Bushwick’s Internet Radio, Broadcasts from a Shipping Container in Punk Alley

Kpiss, Bushwick’s Internet Radio, Broadcasts from a Shipping Container in Punk Alley

"We're the golden stream!"

Kpiss, Bushwick’s Internet Radio, Broadcasts from a Shipping Container in Punk Alley
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Hidden in the depths of Bushwick’s Punk Alley, Sheri Barclay has been running an internet radio station for almost two years.

The name Kpiss, she explained, was a no brainer. A homeless man used to live in the shipping container that she now rents. “Nobody wanted it because it smelled like piss before I renovated it,” Sheri Barclay told Bushwick Daily. “That was a lightbulb moment for me,” she continued, adding that she didn’t displace anyone as the man was already gone before she rented the space.

Sheri Barclay inside the shipping container, which serves as a home to Kpiss radio. (All photos by Katarina Hybenova for Bushwick Daily)

“We’re Kpiss, we’re the golden stream,” Sheri said. “You can take it however you want. If you don’t like it, it’s an automatic filter like a bladder itself. The name automatically filters out anybody who would not wanna listen or be part of it. And that’s cool. It’s a niche, so why not work with that.”

The radio station takes the piss out of community stations that are either way too hip, or way too structured, or way too free form to the point that the…

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