www.jambase.com is also a great source for upcoming source info. And it's not limited to jambands as the site's name suggests.
WHFS is now......a salsa channel?
I'm very upset about this at the moment. I didn't much like the music on HFS, but I love listening to the Sports Junkies in the morning. What's going to happen to them? Do I have to brush up on my Spanish?
So, will Dr. Drew and Adam Corolla be speaking in spanish now?
HFieSta?
What I'm going to say probably won't be so popular, but anyway….
Quite a few of you are thrilled HFS is gone; however, people listened to the station (as well as there are people that are now suddenly unemployed). HFS still being around had NO bearing on your personal life. The demise of the station is not going to send throngs of people to buy CD's of obscure little bands (or whatever you may wish to call good music…we all have varying tastes).
The point is…the manner that this happened was bullshit. Sure, it wasn't the best "alternative" (or even alternative at all), but at least it wasn't Britney Spears pop shit. A lot of younger people (believe it or not), have used stations such as HFS to discover wider genres (it happened to me seven years ago!)
My point is, stop with your elitist view of music, and think a little further about it. It's not a personal victory, you could just change the station. I've been listening to my iPod instead of radio lately, anyway, but seeing so much generalization and stereotype of people who actually DID listen to the station defeats the purpose of trying to show that you are a free thinker.
Quite a few of you are thrilled HFS is gone; however, people listened to the station (as well as there are people that are now suddenly unemployed). HFS still being around had NO bearing on your personal life. The demise of the station is not going to send throngs of people to buy CD's of obscure little bands (or whatever you may wish to call good music…we all have varying tastes).
The point is…the manner that this happened was bullshit. Sure, it wasn't the best "alternative" (or even alternative at all), but at least it wasn't Britney Spears pop shit. A lot of younger people (believe it or not), have used stations such as HFS to discover wider genres (it happened to me seven years ago!)
My point is, stop with your elitist view of music, and think a little further about it. It's not a personal victory, you could just change the station. I've been listening to my iPod instead of radio lately, anyway, but seeing so much generalization and stereotype of people who actually DID listen to the station defeats the purpose of trying to show that you are a free thinker.
Originally posted by Rupert Pupkin:Not until their parent station, KROQ in LA, becomes a Spanish channel. DC gets a syndicate of a show that's been going strong in LA for almost 25 years.
So, will Dr. Drew and Adam Corolla be speaking in spanish now?
Originally posted by Kat on a Hot Tin Roof:Maybe you can get Beastie Boys tickets this time around without all those HFSers getting the Password before you do!
HFS still being around had NO bearing on your personal life.
there's nothing elitist about disliking HFS… they were less original than the other mainstream stations, and and at the same time pretended to be more so.
Maybe if HFS and its ilk focused on playing "obscure little bands," they wouldn't be out of business.
Bands with talent these days are determined "obscure" and "little" by the big corporate rock machine and its outlets, like HFS, which prefers to focus-group and market-test "music" for the lowest common denominator. Then they wonder why their business stinks.
It wasn't always like this. But if the same mentality that infected the music industry were prevalent fourty years ago, the Beatles and Stones would be "obscure" and "little," and music executives would be wondering why sales of Pat Boone records were slipping.
Bands with talent these days are determined "obscure" and "little" by the big corporate rock machine and its outlets, like HFS, which prefers to focus-group and market-test "music" for the lowest common denominator. Then they wonder why their business stinks.
It wasn't always like this. But if the same mentality that infected the music industry were prevalent fourty years ago, the Beatles and Stones would be "obscure" and "little," and music executives would be wondering why sales of Pat Boone records were slipping.
i'm kinda tempted to call infinity and WTF-them out. i'm kinda curious about the machinations of the switch anyway. junkiesradio.com is gone too.
Originally posted by joz::p give me a break, i've been away for four years
Originally posted by Dahlia:wow. i can't think of the last time i listened to a radio station for upcoming show information…or for "overdose" updates for that matter.
even if you're complaining that it sucks you still have something in common to bitch about at parties - and it gives you immediate information about upcoming shows, overdoses, whatever.
who od'ed today? guess i better flip on the radio.
it's so fucked up. i feel like i've lost my childhood or something. what i don't understand is how can anyone throw away 40 years of alternative formatting down the drain. whfs has been a part of my family;s life for a long time. my parents listened to hfs when it was 102.3 whfs bethesda and that was back in the 1970's. as a 9 year old, i remember listening to whfs whenever i was in baltimore or dc. i really got into whfs when i was 11. the music played was just amazing. smashing pumpkins, oasis, bush, rancid, blur, radiohead, ect. no other station i knew of played stuff like that, except for the college radio station in my rural town would play it on monday nights. and well, because of whfs, i discovered a lot of great music such as depeche mode and the cure.
as a listener of the station, i had my favorite djs. unfortunately some had left in years past, but some of them were still around. i would be a regular caller for neci's shift. and i've hung out with tim virgin a few times at some 930 club shows. i think what's really tough was that i was going to be an intern for hfs this coming summer and help neci with her overnight show.
i started going to the hfstival when i was 13. i went with my parents and we saw the red hot chili peppers. it's been a tradition since 1999 for me amd my family to go to it. this past year, i had the honor of being a photographer for this year's hfstival. photographing the offspring and the cure was such an achievement for me.
i think for me i feel heart sick about it because my dream was to work for hfs. i almost had it and now it's gone. i'm not sure what i'm going to do without the hfstival each may, it was such a kickoff for my summer. i just can't help but feel like someone has taken away my childhood or youth.
as a listener of the station, i had my favorite djs. unfortunately some had left in years past, but some of them were still around. i would be a regular caller for neci's shift. and i've hung out with tim virgin a few times at some 930 club shows. i think what's really tough was that i was going to be an intern for hfs this coming summer and help neci with her overnight show.
i started going to the hfstival when i was 13. i went with my parents and we saw the red hot chili peppers. it's been a tradition since 1999 for me amd my family to go to it. this past year, i had the honor of being a photographer for this year's hfstival. photographing the offspring and the cure was such an achievement for me.
i think for me i feel heart sick about it because my dream was to work for hfs. i almost had it and now it's gone. i'm not sure what i'm going to do without the hfstival each may, it was such a kickoff for my summer. i just can't help but feel like someone has taken away my childhood or youth.
Originally posted by saintangelsin:Hehe…I was a regular caller during Zoltar's shift. :)
as a listener of the station, i had my favorite djs. unfortunately some had left in years past, but some of them were still around. i would be a regular caller for neci's shift.
Zoltar was the shit.
Regardless of whther you like corporate radio, or like HFS, this move is a very very bad one. If you look at hte bigger picture, which obviously very few of you are capapble of doing, you'll see the continuing of a trend that will further puch good music to hte background. Sure HFS played a lot of shit, and has done that for quite some time. But their decline parallels the general fall of the music industry. It is not something to be celebrated, not something to cheer. Throughout all the miserableness of their programming, every once in awhile they would play a Fugazi song, or an old Echo and the Bunnymen song. And somebody heard that artist for the very first time and bought an album, or looked them up on the internet. That is a good thing that simply won't happen anymore.
I spent the past weekend in LA, listening to indie 103 and camping out in Amoeba. I said while i was there that DC could never support an Amoeba, cause too many people just don't care about music. This is a perfect example that DC can't even support a 'modern rock' station. Just think about this for a second… I know many of you don't give a fuck about DC as a whole, and are only interested in your own personal likes and dislikes. That's fine, but for those of us who actually care about what the DC music scene is becoming, this is a very bad omen. I hope someone takes up some slack on the airwaves. I have XM and listen to WOXY or KEXP and have more CDs than I can listen to being mailed to me, but it's not me I'm worried about.
I spent the past weekend in LA, listening to indie 103 and camping out in Amoeba. I said while i was there that DC could never support an Amoeba, cause too many people just don't care about music. This is a perfect example that DC can't even support a 'modern rock' station. Just think about this for a second… I know many of you don't give a fuck about DC as a whole, and are only interested in your own personal likes and dislikes. That's fine, but for those of us who actually care about what the DC music scene is becoming, this is a very bad omen. I hope someone takes up some slack on the airwaves. I have XM and listen to WOXY or KEXP and have more CDs than I can listen to being mailed to me, but it's not me I'm worried about.
i think for me i feel heart sick about it because my dream was to work for hfs. i almost had it and now it's gone. i'm not sure what i'm going to do without the hfstival each may, it was such a kickoff for my summer. i just can't help but feel like someone has taken away my childhood or youth.
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Yea, that sucks pal.
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Yea, that sucks pal.
Holy crap. No more… Loveline? This can't be! Another station must pick it up quickly.
Originally posted by Jagernaut:Right now, they're going to go back to WJFK, even though WJFK doesn't want them…Probably won't last very long. Besides JP has a few things in the works that would be better :)
I'm very upset about this at the moment. I didn't much like the music on HFS, but I love listening to the Sports Junkies in the morning. What's going to happen to them? Do I have to brush up on my Spanish?
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Originally posted by Kat on a Hot Tin Roof:Listening to Britney Spears CAN actually lead to the discovery of wider genres. But only if you live under a rock and have no idea who Britney Spears is. And listening to HFS can certainly open up your mind, if you haven't been exposed to Offspring and Limp Bizkit (is a roller coaster) a million times, which everyone has, whether they've liked it or not. The truth about HFS is, they play(ed) the same generic, unexciting music (Offspring and Limp Bizkit) that you hear everywhere else. So personally, I equated HFS with the Britney stations as far as innovation. I can actually deal with a fluffy pop station easier. The robotic, cookie-cutter djs of HFS (and the like) felt obliged every second to dutifully explain how much every new alternative rock band kicks ass, even though it would be some fifth-generation Pearl Jam soundalike.
The point is…the manner that this happened was bullshit. Sure, it wasn't the best "alternative" (or even alternative at all), but at least it wasn't Britney Spears pop shit. A lot of younger people (believe it or not), have used stations such as HFS to discover wider genres (it happened to me seven years ago!)
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Originally posted by saintangelsin:I feel the same way. Even though it has gotten to be pretty shitty in the last few years, HFS was a big part of my youth. This was where I first heard the Ramones, on HFS in the early 90s. I can't believe I'll never go to another HFStival…and all my favorite DJs, gone… DC will never be the same.
i'm not sure what i'm going to do without the hfstival each may, it was such a kickoff for my summer. i just can't help but feel like someone has taken away my childhood or youth.