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.
