WHFS is now......a salsa channel?

Has that travesty of a festival even had a decent lineup since the Ramones played?

Originally posted by keithcu:
I still loved HFS – warts and all, but the station is not the biggest loss. I'll raise a glass tonight to the passing of the HFStival. What the hell are we going to do on Memorial Day weekend now?

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
now if some savvy local promoter would come and cherry pick the best of those bands and put on his own festival, at say merriweather, life could be all good.

word, ideal. let's just hope merriweather stays alive long enough to see this happen.

Originally posted by J'Mal:
They are the end of terrestrial radio.

Right. 20 Million+ Digital Cable Subscibers, 18 Million Satellite Suscribers, countless Analog Cable subscribers and yet NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and a smattering of other smaller networks still exist after 20 years.

Yet 3 Million Satellite Radio subscribers are are going put an end to Infinity (Parent Viacom) and Clear Channel?

Do you work for XM?

quick!!!

everyone to the hfstival.com message board, it'll be like slowing down to look at a car wreck!

Even though we pretty much all agree that HFS sucked, can we really picture it not being there? I think this change is really going to have a negative effect on the music scene; this is a top 10 market without an alternative (ish) radio station now? I'm from Baltimore and can't pick up a lot of the smaller DC stations well.

I've also heard that radio stations aren't supposed to tell when they're switching over; remember when The X became Froggy?

Originally posted by Dahlia:
Even though we pretty much all agree that HFS sucked, can we really picture it not being there? I think this change is really going to have a negative effect on the music scene; this is a top 10 market without an alternative (ish) radio station now?

true. do all those "HFS sponsored" shows now not even come to the area?

Very few, if any of those hfs sponsored shows were worth seeing anyway.
Take the most recent one at 9:30 for example. o.a.r.? No thanks.

HFS sucked. All modern rock radio sucks.

If i may quote Chad Ginsburg of CKY:
"IGNORE MODERN ROCK RADIO. IT IGNORES YOU."

and he is damn right.


Today is a good day. Hopefully people will realize that.

Originally posted by azaghal1981:
Very few, if any of those hfs sponsored shows were worth seeing anyway.

If I recall correctly, both the Muse and Interpol shows last November carried the "sponsored by WHFS" label.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
quick!!!

everyone to the hfstival.com message board, it'll be like slowing down to look at a car wreck!

That is so funny, I could kiss you!


BTW:

"Connection Problems
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Thus, giving more creditability to his statement.

Originally posted by Random Citizen:

Originally posted by azaghal1981:
Very few, if any of those hfs sponsored shows were worth seeing anyway.

If I recall correctly, both the Muse and Interpol shows last November carried the "sponsored by WHFS" label.

Originally posted by Random Citizen:
If I recall correctly, the Interpol show last November carried the "sponsored by WHFS" label.

Gee, and they're skipping DC this time around…..

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Thus, giving more creditability to his statement.

Just a thought…if you can't spell credibility, perhaps you shouldn't talk about it?

Come on lets face it, modern rock has become totally marginalised. Look at the top 10 artists or albums. The populous are not interested in rock.

RnR is dead.

Do stations usually play material by the artists they sponsor?I haven't listened in a while but I have trouble believing that HFS played any interpol.

good bye…I used to like you (about 12-17 years ago) but then you started to change and the relationship went sour.

I'm so glad you're gone. Maybe there will be less people spilling beer on me at Muse shows now. One can only hope…..

Jeez, give a guy a chance to take a piss and then correct his mistake.

Originally posted by Random Citizen:

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Thus, giving more creditability to his statement.

Just a thought…if you can't spell credibility, perhaps you shouldn't talk about it?

i guess the best we can hope for the music scene radio-wise is that a new station will step in and cover the gap as well as promoting shows, but that probably won't happen for a while. what rock-ish stations are still around besides 98 Rock? *gag*

Could they possibly use the name HFStival and put on a latin artist fest? :-)

www.wrnr.com

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Originally posted by Dahlia:
i guess the best we can hope for the music scene radio-wise is that a new station will step in and cover the gap as well as promoting shows, but that probably won't happen for a while. what rock-ish stations are still around besides 98 Rock? *gag*