Jed the Fish Dead: KROQ DJ Who Pioneered New Wave Radio Was 69

Jed the Fish Dead: KROQ DJ Who Pioneered New Wave Radio Was 69

Jed Gould, the influential Los Angeles disc jockey known as Jed the Fish, who used his off-kilter sensibility and deep musical knowledge to shine a light on artists like the Cure, Depeche Mode and the Offspring at the groundbreaking New Wave and alternative rock station KROQ-FM in the 1980s and ’90s, died on April 14 at his home in Pasadena, Calif. He was 69. The cause was an aggressive form of small-cell lung cancer, Rudy Koerner, a close frien…