SHARK wrote:
Curious Hair wrote:
I wouldn't bet on it. XRT's niche is to be a hipper Drive. It's basically Music For People Who Consider Themselves To Have Good Taste In Music, and a lot of that '90s alternative doesn't really fit. I don't think Nine Inch Nails or Rage Against The Machine really fit alongside Wilco or Andrew Bird. What we consider "typical Q101 music" is probably going to end up on the Loop.
Curious, it's up in the air what Merlin Media, the new owners of Q101, will do with 97.9 The LOOP come Friday. I read somewhere that Merlin might turn WLUP into an '80s-like hybrid of rock, metal, new wave and even pop, a far cry from what The LOOP calls itself now as
"Chicago's Classic Rock Station" trying to cut into 97.1 The DRIVE's own classic rock playlist, sound and audience.
Boy, "an '80s-like hybrid of rock, metal, new wave and even pop" sure is a far cry from the Loop I grew up with in 2000-2003, which helped me go through the government-mandated phase of Really Digging Led Zeppelin As A High School Boy. But even that's been gone for some time now, and my music tastes have evolved since the Loop's very important entry-level rock course, so I can let go, let go, 'cause there's beauty in the breakdown. See? I like Frou Frou now.
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