as if anyone really cared, the fall hfstival was cancelled, my guess is due to poor ticket sales and could you blame the people looking at that awful lineup? so uh, in the words of my boy nelson from the simpsons, ha ha!
hfstival cancelled
Originally posted by andyrichter:Your assumption is correct
as if anyone really cared, the fall hfstival was cancelled, my guess is due to poor ticket sales and could you blame the people looking at that awful lineup? so uh, in the words of my boy nelson from the simpsons, ha ha!
"WHFS is having some serious second thoughts about the first ever fall version of its HFStival,"
They had a fall version of HFStival back in like 1999
They had a fall version of HFStival back in like 1999
That's not good, there'll be mass demonstrations in the area middle schools I'm sure.
how am i ever going to live without seeing Staind?
shit
shit
hopefully it will make them reconsider the shit they play and promote……………
naaaaah that's just crazzzzzy talk……….they are much more likely to find another reason for the lack of ticket sales……………………
naaaaah that's just crazzzzzy talk……….they are much more likely to find another reason for the lack of ticket sales……………………
..or they'll just have the next one before the kids go back to school.
cancelling the hfstival is the best thing that they could have ever done.
we are still selling tickets at my work though. so i suppose the just havent OFFICIALLY decided to kill it.
now on thier website it says
"Due to a scheduling conflict…"
yeah, right.
just goes to show, you can only rip off the public once a year….
"Due to a scheduling conflict…"
yeah, right.
just goes to show, you can only rip off the public once a year….
Originally posted by sonickteam2:Not true…ticketbastard does it millions of times every day.
just goes to show, you can only rip off the public once a year….
Originally posted by sonickteam2:That's probably because TicketBastards don't want to stop the influx of non-refundable service charges. Fuckers! :mad:
we are still selling tickets at my work though. so i suppose the just havent OFFICIALLY decided to kill it.
You know, this all makes me a little sad. I don't want the HFStival to go away completely, I just want it to be good again. It was good for a number of years in the mid to late 90s. It can be good, there are oodles of other radio alternative music summer festivals that have much better lineups than we've been seeing lately. Come on, this is D.C., a major market. Let's sharpen up, here!
bags…the reality is the only stations that would do a decent festival would be a small independant one, unfortunately, thanks to companies like Clearchannel etc. they buy them up and fuck them up. Don't know if they bought HFS but it doesn't matter, it's just teenie-bopper hippity hoppity, rap, limp-dickshit shite all the time regardless of who owns it.
Anyone want to start up a local radio station that plays real music?
If you're looking for the perfect show, I agree with you, mank. But a lot of the other summer festivals are better than the HFStival – the KROQ shows on both coasts and various other festivals throughout the country.
But you're right; there's no going back with HFS. I can't listen to that shit for a minute.
Give me WOXY or give me deaf!
But you're right; there's no going back with HFS. I can't listen to that shit for a minute.
Give me WOXY or give me deaf!
Originally posted by mankie:
bags…the reality is the only stations that would do a decent festival would be a small independant one, unfortunately, thanks to companies like Clearchannel etc. they buy them up and fuck them up. Don't know if they bought HFS but it doesn't matter, it's just teenie-bopper hippity hoppity, rap, limp-dickshit shite all the time regardless of who owns it.
This could be the new blood HFS needs…just cut down on the bands with misspelled names (Staind, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, etc…) and I'll be happy.
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"Lisa Worden To HFS - 8/22 - DCRTV reported in early August that Lisa Worden of LA alt rocker KROQ had the inside track to become program director at like formatted WHFS. And now we're getting confirmation of our exclusive report; she arrives in September. Worden received the 2002 "alternative music director of the year" award from Radio And Records. While both stations are owned by Infinity, KROQ is at the top of the ratings heap while WHFS is at the bottom. Plus, this scuttles any 99.1 format change rumors for the time being. HFS's old PD, Robert Benjamin, recently took off for the west coast….."
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"Lisa Worden To HFS - 8/22 - DCRTV reported in early August that Lisa Worden of LA alt rocker KROQ had the inside track to become program director at like formatted WHFS. And now we're getting confirmation of our exclusive report; she arrives in September. Worden received the 2002 "alternative music director of the year" award from Radio And Records. While both stations are owned by Infinity, KROQ is at the top of the ratings heap while WHFS is at the bottom. Plus, this scuttles any 99.1 format change rumors for the time being. HFS's old PD, Robert Benjamin, recently took off for the west coast….."
HFS has sucked for so long now, I can't even remember anymore when it didn't suck! It is the most thoroughly sucky station ever to blight DC's airwaves, all the more so because they still harbor bogus pretensions to being "alternative!" Did I mention they suck?
http://www.whfssucks.com
http://www.whfssucks.com
Originally posted by eros:Doesn't look like much of an improvement:
This could be the new blood HFS needs…just cut down on the bands with misspelled names (Staind, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, etc…) and I'll be happy.
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"Lisa Worden To HFS - 8/22 - DCRTV reported in early August that Lisa Worden of LA alt rocker KROQ had the inside track to become program director at like formatted WHFS. And now we're getting confirmation of our exclusive report; she arrives in September. Worden received the 2002 "alternative music director of the year" award from Radio And Records. While both stations are owned by Infinity, KROQ is at the top of the ratings heap while WHFS is at the bottom. Plus, this scuttles any 99.1 format change rumors for the time being. HFS's old PD, Robert Benjamin, recently took off for the west coast….."
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KROQ Most Played
1 Hot Hot Heat Talk To Me, Dance With Me
2 Radiohead There, There
3 Queens of the Stone Age Go with the Flow
4 The White Stripes The Hardest Button to Button
5 Linkin Park Numb
6 Outkast Hey Ya
7 A Perfect Circle Weak and Powerless
8 Fountains of Wayne Stacy's Mom
9 Staind So Far Away
10 Linkin Park Faint
11 Jane's Addiction Just Because
12 Trapt Headstrong
13 Brand New The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
14 The Ataris Boys of Summer
15 Chevelle Send The Pain Below
16 311 Creatures (For A While)
17 AFI The Leaving Song Pt. II
18 Korn Did My Time
19 The White Stripes Seven Nation Army
20 Smile Empty Soul Bottom of a Bottle
unless it's a oldies station, radio is going to play what the major labels are pushing… indie labels can never compete with the amount of "promotional" money that major labels line the radio broadcasters pockets with. an indie station could never survive in dc because it would takes millions of dollars to buy one, and then good luck getting advertisers as clear channel would just keep under cutting your ad rates.
welcome to america where the big box mentality is king and the little guy be damned… bigger is not always better unless your clear channel or ticketmaster. :mad:
welcome to america where the big box mentality is king and the little guy be damned… bigger is not always better unless your clear channel or ticketmaster. :mad: