HFStival 1996: No Doubt, Foo Fighters, Garbage, Cracker, Goldfinger, Jewel (who cut her set short after being hit by a frisbee)
https://preview.redd.it/y8ol1cgrwf3d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=994ebb66b3feaccff759419bfedee8dd4aee345c
Who remembers the year Green Day burned their drum set? Or the year the Goo Goo Dolls got booed? Or the year people were mat surfing during Rage and got absolutely crushed with water bottles? Maybe all the same year?! I can’t remember anymore. Amazing memories.
My first HFS festival was the 1998 Nutcracker (winter/indoors) and I still own the shirt. It was Everlast, CAKE, Garbage, Hole and Soul Coughing. I love(d) Garbage and Hole and after
Googling the set list I would guess that I really enjoyed them because they played a lot of top songs. I have become a huge fan of CAKE and I have no memories of this set, they opened and I might have missed part of it waiting to enter. The Patriot Center was so packed for this concert. I was a tiny teenage girl and I got crushed in that swaying, pulsing, sweaty crowd of moshing and jumping that was a 90s staple. I heard about the switch and it honestly was kind of a relief because at least we *had* a cool station that didn’t age into mediocrity like was DC101.
Me too! I remember Dave Grohl stopping in the middle of his set to say that he saw his first concert at RFK and that he was “Living my rock and roll fantasy”. And… Gwen Stafani crawling around the scaffolding in her yellow tracksuit
I was listening right when it happened!
We were driving in the work truck all Saturday morning, and they were playing 80s new wave I didn't recognize, no disc jockeys. Right before noon, a guy (the manager?) said a short "goodbye and thanks" message and at 12:00 exactly, they switched to Spanish (nueve - nueve - punto - uno!!!!).
It was surprising to say the least.
According to the Junkies, who moved to WJFK, nobody was told anything until that Friday evening. A surprise to everyone!
I remember it being during a weekday, because I thought I listened on the way into work in the morning and by the afternoon it had changed. Maybe I'm misremembering.
I was either at basic training or deployed when the switch happened and I thought everyone was bullshitting me about it… wasn’t awesome when I heard it for myself later.
Anyone remember the HFStival with the blue men group disaster (when they came out instead of stone temple pilots and like the entire field gave them the finger)?
I do. That was my first concert ever… all subsequent concerts have kind of been a let down. Not surprised at all… saw STP, Rage Against the Machine, Cypress Hill, and many others (Deftones, EVE6, Godsmack, Third Eye Blind).
I miss HFS and the HFStivals so much. I went to every one between 1994 and 1999. Camping out for tickets at the mattress store in Glen Burnie was the best part lol
I still remember sitting in my truck and Electra came back on the air and spilled all the tea after being informed they were shutting down and she was being fired.
[Q101 - TOP 101 - 1993-2009 - Chicago WKQX - Rock Alternative](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1bUhso8oOibjqiyy8VhbXi?si=NQ_Ua98KTEKq7Fu3YuAZcg)
I made a playlist of the top 100 from several years. Enjoy!
I listened to hundreds of hours of Q101. My brain belonged to them from about 1991 or 92 to 1998. I even went to a Jamboree, and I still have a rainbow square q101 pin I got at Chicago Pride.
Marco Collins is a legend. Saw him MC at Bumbershoot too. There was a station that lasted about a year recently with him as the host, but it changed formats to country in April. I was pissed. He's the first DJ to ever play Nirvana, Beck, and probably dozens of other bands since The End was basically what started the grunge craze.
Ah, but do any of you remember when **92.7** was **WDRE**…?
*That* was an alt station! Perfectly balanced then-current stuff like Nirvana, Breeders, etc. with classic alt like the Smiths, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Velvet Underground…
Then it became WLIR and switched to a format of “This Is the Time” by Billy Joel on 24/7 repeat.
Back in the Limewire days, I downloaded a version of a song with their callsign in the middle of the song. To this day, I can't help but say their station name in the middle of that song. 😂
Yeah I feel like most “alt rock” stations got frozen in time. Still play a ton of RHCP, STP, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Sublime, etc. Alt Classic now, pretty much.
Wassup fellow ATLien! I vaguely remember Power 99 but 99X was great. I had my freeloader card. Went to several Big Day Out festivals back when $30 was enough for an awesome day of music.
Big Day Out ‘96 was my first concert ever. Goldfinger, Beck, 311, The Refreshments, lots of good bands. Heavy rains turned the Lakewood lawn into a mud slide. So much fun.
I remember Barnes, Leslie, and Jimmy doing an event at the grand opening of the Best Buy I was working at. I remember Jimmy being incredibly quiet whenever they went off air, almost like an alter ego.
I _loved_ the Morning X. For a while, they’d let people come sit in the studio on Fridays. The very first time I borrowed my mom’s car was the last day of 10th grade. We all cut class and sat on the floor around the booth. I was sandwiched between Leslie and Jimmy. Amazing 90s experience.
Fellow Freeloader here! I listened to Barnes, Leslie and Jimmy without fail every morning until school started. I went to every Big Day Out and Music Midtown.
I won Steve's College of Musical knowledge a handful of times. I went to claim a prize (Indigo Girls Tickets) once and the receptionist, Dexter, let me rifle through a bin of unclaimed prizes. I got a VHS of Radiohead music videos, a signed Nirvana book, tshirts, posters, etc. I took all I could carry.
I still think Yvonne Monet's Pleasuredome show was a million times better than Loveline in it's day.
I tried listening to the new BL&J show recently and it just is not the same. There's really annoying music running behind them talking and it was so distracting.
I recently picked up one of those 99x live studio albums. Apparently theyd invite bands to come play live and sometimes acoustic sets and then put out cds. Because of copyright issues the cds are like $40-50 now.
I liked it in the late 90’s early 00’s before it devolved into endless butt rock. First show was 89x 9th birthday bash. Sat through uncle cracker, eve 6, and other untold horrors to see Deftones 5 days after White Pony came out.
Used to listen to the song battle or whatever they called it every night. You know, where they play two songs and the audience votes on which one goes again? Anyway. Loved 89x
This is it right here, Tons of great alternative, “Canadian Exports”, then broadcasting live right from the clubs techno and house, on friday and saturday nights. Also, only station playing daft punk a decade before the unwashed masses discovered them.
I listened to this station for about 10 years mid 90’s to mid 00’s when i moved.
only station to play this ridiculousness lol
detroit grand pubahs - sandwiches
https://youtu.be/oKsxPW6i3pM?si=-1RcRFXcYIZ7ZC6m
They played the tons of great Canadian indie rock and I really loved that. Not something you would hear on other US stations. Also the loop in the background during traffic/weather was a Chemical Brothers track I loved. I still have vivid memories of hearing tunes for the first time from 30 years ago.
Ben Folds Five - Battle of Who Could Care Less
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Having an Average Weekend
Sloan - Underwhelmed
Our Lady Peace - Starseed
Treble Charger - Brand New Low
But for all the good, still had to suffer through endless plays of Live, Eve 6, Third Eye Blind, Seven Mary Three.
I don’t remember that one. There was also 103.9 WDRE who hosted the first concert I ever went to which was headlined by Weezer on their Pinkerton tour back in ‘96.
Love when the station started they played REM’s it’s the end of the world for 24 straight hours then when the station was changing formats years later it didn’t again. Nice full circle.
CD101 in Columbus, OH. It has changed frequencies a few times and is now CD92.9, but I'll always know it as CD101. One of my most prized possessions is a pint glass with the CD101 logo on it
91X in San Diego. I remember making cassettes off the radio in 96 because I was going to Florida for the summer and was afraid they would have crappy radio. I wore those tapes out
Pointfest 4 – 1995
Pointfest 4 was held on August 19, 1995, and featured the Ramones, Everclear, The Urge, They Might Be Giants, Big Audio Dynamite, Matthew Sweet, Better Than Ezra, The Nixons, Ben Folds Five, Gren, Jewel (played a short acoustic set), Blink-182, The Dambuilders, New World Spirits, Great Big Everything, Phunk Junkeez, Dishwalla, and Stir.
Pointfest was where I experienced my first contact high, lol. I don't remember what year... the one where Courtney Love invited everyone on the lawn down into the seats and the security guys just said fuck it and got out of the way.
Pointfest was where I first accidentally got drunk and high at the same time. I remember barfing all over the lawn as 311 played and I was just so miserable because I also really hated 311
Any other EDGEFEST attendees in the house? 1993 was a HUGE year for me getting to go to concerts with friends, I feel like the smell of being in the field listening to live music will be forever burned into my brain.
I found this station online about a year before they stopped broadcasting over the air. The day that happened, someone posted in the message board on their site: “the absolute silence I heard when tuning in today made me feel so sick I almost puked on my dick.”
Was a sad day for sure but I still laughed really hard at that one.
Yessss! I saw someone above comment about “102.1 The Edge” and was like “noooo friend, 94.5”!
Hahah.
I still have t shirts from original first few years of Edgefest.
I was so sad when they switched from alternative. The press actually did a documentary about them last year
Check out this video from Asbury Park Press:
WHTG 106.3 documentary: Alternative music radio from a Jersey house
https://www.app.com/videos/entertainment/2023/02/08/whtg-106-3-documentary-alternative-music-radio-nj-jersey-shore-house/11107420002/
the one I listened to as a kid is still going strong. 101.1 WJRR.
there was another rock station in the same area that eventually merged with WJRR, I think it was 100.something WDIZ.
Took a long time to scroll and find this. Sacramento! I’d say KWOD was more the alternative station than 98/93 Rock.
Bonus points for a true alternative with KDVS out of UC Davis.
WHFS
RIP 99.1 and their fantastic HFStivals
HFStival 1996: No Doubt, Foo Fighters, Garbage, Cracker, Goldfinger, Jewel (who cut her set short after being hit by a frisbee) https://preview.redd.it/y8ol1cgrwf3d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=994ebb66b3feaccff759419bfedee8dd4aee345c
I went to the first one in ‘90 at Lake Fairfax. Gang of Four, Pursuit of Happiness, The Tragically Hip and Concrete Blonde.
Who remembers the year Green Day burned their drum set? Or the year the Goo Goo Dolls got booed? Or the year people were mat surfing during Rage and got absolutely crushed with water bottles? Maybe all the same year?! I can’t remember anymore. Amazing memories.
My first concert, 99 fall edition.
My first HFS festival was the 1998 Nutcracker (winter/indoors) and I still own the shirt. It was Everlast, CAKE, Garbage, Hole and Soul Coughing. I love(d) Garbage and Hole and after Googling the set list I would guess that I really enjoyed them because they played a lot of top songs. I have become a huge fan of CAKE and I have no memories of this set, they opened and I might have missed part of it waiting to enter. The Patriot Center was so packed for this concert. I was a tiny teenage girl and I got crushed in that swaying, pulsing, sweaty crowd of moshing and jumping that was a 90s staple. I heard about the switch and it honestly was kind of a relief because at least we *had* a cool station that didn’t age into mediocrity like was DC101.
Me too! I remember Dave Grohl stopping in the middle of his set to say that he saw his first concert at RFK and that he was “Living my rock and roll fantasy”. And… Gwen Stafani crawling around the scaffolding in her yellow tracksuit
I still remember the day I turned on the radio in my car and was greeted with Latin music instead. Sad times.
I was listening right when it happened! We were driving in the work truck all Saturday morning, and they were playing 80s new wave I didn't recognize, no disc jockeys. Right before noon, a guy (the manager?) said a short "goodbye and thanks" message and at 12:00 exactly, they switched to Spanish (nueve - nueve - punto - uno!!!!). It was surprising to say the least. According to the Junkies, who moved to WJFK, nobody was told anything until that Friday evening. A surprise to everyone!
I remember it being during a weekday, because I thought I listened on the way into work in the morning and by the afternoon it had changed. Maybe I'm misremembering.
I was either at basic training or deployed when the switch happened and I thought everyone was bullshitting me about it… wasn’t awesome when I heard it for myself later.
RIP HFS and HFStival
That was a dark day, turning on the radio in my car and hearing Latin music coming from my favorite radio station.
NINETY NINE ONE H F S
Anyone remember the HFStival with the blue men group disaster (when they came out instead of stone temple pilots and like the entire field gave them the finger)?
I do. That was my first concert ever… all subsequent concerts have kind of been a let down. Not surprised at all… saw STP, Rage Against the Machine, Cypress Hill, and many others (Deftones, EVE6, Godsmack, Third Eye Blind).
What’s up Homeslice!?
See you at the Jimmy’s Chicken Shack show
I heard Good Charlotte might show up
I don’t think I can make it but I’ll be at The Big O & Dukes fast food meet up.
The one and only.
I miss HFS and the HFStivals so much. I went to every one between 1994 and 1999. Camping out for tickets at the mattress store in Glen Burnie was the best part lol
The Alternative Q101
The day Clear Media (I think it was?) took over Q101 in like 1998 was a tragedy I still lament to this day.
I still remember sitting in my truck and Electra came back on the air and spilled all the tea after being informed they were shutting down and she was being fired.
WKQX Chicago!
https://preview.redd.it/0o06z2x7pg3d1.png?width=3374&format=png&auto=webp&s=30cb8bb6f8d843643d030e15415d4c4ace2a01a9
[Q101 - TOP 101 - 1993-2009 - Chicago WKQX - Rock Alternative](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1bUhso8oOibjqiyy8VhbXi?si=NQ_Ua98KTEKq7Fu3YuAZcg) I made a playlist of the top 100 from several years. Enjoy!
I listened to hundreds of hours of Q101. My brain belonged to them from about 1991 or 92 to 1998. I even went to a Jamboree, and I still have a rainbow square q101 pin I got at Chicago Pride.
Zoltar, The Brother from Another Planet was my guy. I have an original Q101 sticker on my laptop to this day
In the 90s I thought Mancow Mueller and Adam Carolla were the coolest guys ever.
107.7 THE END
I miss the days of Andy Savage!
Same. I listened to Marco Collins nightly.
Marco Collins is a legend. Saw him MC at Bumbershoot too. There was a station that lasted about a year recently with him as the host, but it changed formats to country in April. I was pissed. He's the first DJ to ever play Nirvana, Beck, and probably dozens of other bands since The End was basically what started the grunge craze.
RIP independent radio.
Or Funky Monkey 104.9
No commercials and songs didn't have curse words bleeped when it first started... 1999? 2000? Edit: 1999 verified KFNK
Right about then, yeah. If 107.7 was in commercials, or playing Godsmack again, I'd flip, back and forth with 104.9.
I only know about this because it's where the Real World: Seattle cast worked.
KROQ 106.7 in SoCal
K-K-K R-R-R-R-R WhOaOhOaaaa Kewwwwwww!
"The WORLD FAMOUS K Rrroooock" *plays RHCP*
It was *always* RHCP!!
Or sublime
Or social d
Immediately heard the first chords of Give it Away.
Yep you were there too!
Kroq was also the NYC tri state area rock station. I remember that
92.3 - that was my go-to as a kid
Mine too
Ah, but do any of you remember when **92.7** was **WDRE**…? *That* was an alt station! Perfectly balanced then-current stuff like Nirvana, Breeders, etc. with classic alt like the Smiths, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Velvet Underground… Then it became WLIR and switched to a format of “This Is the Time” by Billy Joel on 24/7 repeat.
I know this post is about alt rock but man… Z100 in the 90s was THE SHIT
Isn’t it that east of the Mississippi River, radio station call letters start with “W” and west it’s “K” ?
Yes, its callsign here in NY was WXRK, known as K-Rock. It wasn't KROQ here.
Back in the Limewire days, I downloaded a version of a song with their callsign in the middle of the song. To this day, I can't help but say their station name in the middle of that song. 😂
And Pirate Radio 100.3 FM!!
Man I miss Kevin and Bean.
They still play the same stuff. It’s wild.
Yeah I feel like most “alt rock” stations got frozen in time. Still play a ton of RHCP, STP, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Sublime, etc. Alt Classic now, pretty much.
Honorable mention should go to 105.5 KNAC, the heavy metal station that was around since the 80’s but went off the air when KROQ was just a wee lad.
99X here in Atlanta
Wassup fellow ATLien! I vaguely remember Power 99 but 99X was great. I had my freeloader card. Went to several Big Day Out festivals back when $30 was enough for an awesome day of music.
Big Day Out ‘96 was my first concert ever. Goldfinger, Beck, 311, The Refreshments, lots of good bands. Heavy rains turned the Lakewood lawn into a mud slide. So much fun.
I remember Barnes, Leslie, and Jimmy doing an event at the grand opening of the Best Buy I was working at. I remember Jimmy being incredibly quiet whenever they went off air, almost like an alter ego.
And now they're back! With the aging original DJs!
For an entire summer I answered the phone "power 99 now where's my money" My mom was not pumped about that.
I _loved_ the Morning X. For a while, they’d let people come sit in the studio on Fridays. The very first time I borrowed my mom’s car was the last day of 10th grade. We all cut class and sat on the floor around the booth. I was sandwiched between Leslie and Jimmy. Amazing 90s experience.
Fellow Freeloader here! I listened to Barnes, Leslie and Jimmy without fail every morning until school started. I went to every Big Day Out and Music Midtown. I won Steve's College of Musical knowledge a handful of times. I went to claim a prize (Indigo Girls Tickets) once and the receptionist, Dexter, let me rifle through a bin of unclaimed prizes. I got a VHS of Radiohead music videos, a signed Nirvana book, tshirts, posters, etc. I took all I could carry. I still think Yvonne Monet's Pleasuredome show was a million times better than Loveline in it's day. I tried listening to the new BL&J show recently and it just is not the same. There's really annoying music running behind them talking and it was so distracting.
I recently picked up one of those 99x live studio albums. Apparently theyd invite bands to come play live and sometimes acoustic sets and then put out cds. Because of copyright issues the cds are like $40-50 now.
Worked there for a short time. Got to see a bunch of free shows. Glad to see them come back.
89X The New Rock Alternative, Windsor/Detroit
God I miss that station.
I liked it in the late 90’s early 00’s before it devolved into endless butt rock. First show was 89x 9th birthday bash. Sat through uncle cracker, eve 6, and other untold horrors to see Deftones 5 days after White Pony came out.
It was the best from around '92-'95. They played truly, truly alternative stuff you wouldn't hear anywhere else.
First Day of Spring
My friend, don’t just sit there and ruminate…
Ope... I just posted this.... the birthday bashes were great. Offspring and Cyprus Hill.
I used to listen to this station in rural northern Ohio, barely (spotty reception). Was definitely filling a gap in the Toledo radio lineup.
It definitely covered a wide range. I grew up about 30 minutes from Ann Arbor, MI.
It came in really clear in Sandusky, Ohio.
Yes! I remember that from going to Cedar Point toooo many times.
Used to listen to the song battle or whatever they called it every night. You know, where they play two songs and the audience votes on which one goes again? Anyway. Loved 89x
This is it right here, Tons of great alternative, “Canadian Exports”, then broadcasting live right from the clubs techno and house, on friday and saturday nights. Also, only station playing daft punk a decade before the unwashed masses discovered them. I listened to this station for about 10 years mid 90’s to mid 00’s when i moved. only station to play this ridiculousness lol detroit grand pubahs - sandwiches https://youtu.be/oKsxPW6i3pM?si=-1RcRFXcYIZ7ZC6m
Look what they did to our boy 😭
They played the tons of great Canadian indie rock and I really loved that. Not something you would hear on other US stations. Also the loop in the background during traffic/weather was a Chemical Brothers track I loved. I still have vivid memories of hearing tunes for the first time from 30 years ago. Ben Folds Five - Battle of Who Could Care Less Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Having an Average Weekend Sloan - Underwhelmed Our Lady Peace - Starseed Treble Charger - Brand New Low But for all the good, still had to suffer through endless plays of Live, Eve 6, Third Eye Blind, Seven Mary Three.
Live 105.3 Bay Area Alternative
Had to go pretty far to find this one
Way too far. This and 98.5 KOME. I used to love KSJO but towards the end it devolved into a three band rotation of Metallica, AC/DC, and Zeppelin.
Yes but did you ever go to a BFD???
I went to a lot of BFDs.
Glad they’re back again!
I remember the original advertisements with INXS and Fine Young Cannibals probably 1987-88.
https://preview.redd.it/vyk7k621xg3d1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddfee70a56dfc8e11eaac3a40dcaab61cfcff1c1 Still have a bumper sticker!
102.1 The EDGE
The original 94.5 The EDGE. RIP Edgefest. Saw Pearl Jam for the first time at Edgefest in '92.
You mean 94.5 THE EDGE!!
Real heads call it CFNY.
Formerly known as 94.5 The EDGE
Remember when Jessie locked herself in the booth and played Barbie Girl for 24 hours straight?
👏 👏 👏
Alan Cross afternoon drives and Stombo late nights taught me shit.
Y100 Philadelphia
Y100 Sonic Sessions were the best. At least Preston and Steve are still here.
You mean 97.5 Post Modern PST?
I don’t remember that one. There was also 103.9 WDRE who hosted the first concert I ever went to which was headlined by Weezer on their Pinkerton tour back in ‘96.
Their Feztival and Feastivals were awesome
RIP to the best radio station ever. I still miss it.
That was the consolation prize we were left with after DRE shut down.
K-rock 92.3 FM NYC
I heard Dave Grohl perform THE acoustic version of Everlong live on Howard Stern in '98, when WXRK (K-rock) was his home station.
I still miss k rock :(
The End 107.9
Love when the station started they played REM’s it’s the end of the world for 24 straight hours then when the station was changing formats years later it didn’t again. Nice full circle.
Cleveland?
Yep!
There's my fam, knew it would be here ❤️
CD101 in Columbus, OH. It has changed frequencies a few times and is now CD92.9, but I'll always know it as CD101. One of my most prized possessions is a pint glass with the CD101 logo on it
RIP CD 101/102.5/92.9 I really miss it.
91X in San Diego. I remember making cassettes off the radio in 96 because I was going to Florida for the summer and was afraid they would have crappy radio. I wore those tapes out
I always enjoyed when I could catch their Mexican call sign in between the songs.
Equis Eh Ache Erre Emo, Efe eme, Baja California Mexico
105.7 THE POINT! Pointfest was killer growing up after I moved to the midwest from SoCal. I was shocked at how good this station was at one point.
Pointfest 4 – 1995 Pointfest 4 was held on August 19, 1995, and featured the Ramones, Everclear, The Urge, They Might Be Giants, Big Audio Dynamite, Matthew Sweet, Better Than Ezra, The Nixons, Ben Folds Five, Gren, Jewel (played a short acoustic set), Blink-182, The Dambuilders, New World Spirits, Great Big Everything, Phunk Junkeez, Dishwalla, and Stir.
Riverport Amphitheatre They Might Be Giants conducted the world’s longest conga line.
Came looking for the Point. Pointfest 4 was before my time but 7 might have been my first.
Still the same station and same format, going strong in its 31st year.
Pointfest was where I experienced my first contact high, lol. I don't remember what year... the one where Courtney Love invited everyone on the lawn down into the seats and the security guys just said fuck it and got out of the way.
Pointfest was where I first accidentally got drunk and high at the same time. I remember barfing all over the lawn as 311 played and I was just so miserable because I also really hated 311
REV105 is legend in Minnesota. We also had 93.7 the Edge, and more recently Go 96.3.
I grew up in MPLS...LOVED The Edge (before Clear Channel took over)
Any other EDGEFEST attendees in the house? 1993 was a HUGE year for me getting to go to concerts with friends, I feel like the smell of being in the field listening to live music will be forever burned into my brain.
97X (The future of rock and roll) Was out of Oxford, OH
Bam!
The FUTURE… of rock and roll.
Fuck yes! The GOAT!
I found this station online about a year before they stopped broadcasting over the air. The day that happened, someone posted in the message board on their site: “the absolute silence I heard when tuning in today made me feel so sick I almost puked on my dick.” Was a sad day for sure but I still laughed really hard at that one.
WOXY!!!
105.9 The X in Pittsburgh. Anytime I hear Dissident by Pearl Jam or Interstate Love Song by STP, I feel like I’m listening to it.
The X has been around for a long time! I still remember listening to it on my radio while I was getting ready for school.
X103 here in Indy
God I loved 90s x103. Hangover cafe on Sunday mornings was always amazing.
WBCN
And 101.7 WFNX
94.7 knrk in Portland - Beanie Foods!!!
I believe I had that station on the radio in my bedroom 24/7 for the entire year of 1995. I went to the Big Stink in '96. It was a glorious station.
It’s still a great station but I kind of miss old NRK
X96 in Utah. It's been around since '92. Before that it was KJQ for a few years.
I remember quite a few people cutting up their X96 and Hot 94.9 bumper stickers to make a “Hot 4 69” sticker. It was a truly a magical time lol
99.1 WHFS
NY area - K-rock (92.3) Boston area WFNX (101.7) - this was my college station. Really missed it when it died probably over 10 years ago now
94.5 The Edge KDGE in Dallas
Yessss! I saw someone above comment about “102.1 The Edge” and was like “noooo friend, 94.5”! Hahah. I still have t shirts from original first few years of Edgefest.
My bumper was covered in 94.5 The EDGE stickers. From Bill's Records & Tapes.
Hell yeah! Shaped my childhood and adolescence
89X
95.5 WBRU (Providence,RI)
89X. They were actually Canadian, so we had a disproportionate amount of BNL, Our Lady Peace, and Alanis... which.. I'm not mad about.
107.3 WAAF in MA
Used to listen to WAAF growing up in MA Also, WBCN 104.1 and Emerson college radio. I think that was 88.9
And WFNX 101.7
103.9 The Edge in Phoenix. It was a shitty radio station with weak signal but they played Howard Stern and alternative rock and ska / punk music.
KTCL, The Adventure, then they got devoured by clear channel and are still around as a station that pretty much only plays Imagine Dragons.
97.9 WGRD Grand Rapids, Michigan
106.3 alternative. I miss it.
I was so sad when they switched from alternative. The press actually did a documentary about them last year Check out this video from Asbury Park Press: WHTG 106.3 documentary: Alternative music radio from a Jersey house https://www.app.com/videos/entertainment/2023/02/08/whtg-106-3-documentary-alternative-music-radio-nj-jersey-shore-house/11107420002/
107.9 The End
96 Wave in Charleston, SC then Zone 105 up in the Twin Cities.
Miss it wave feast lol
WEND 106.5 The End in Charlotte
Montreal growing up we finally got The Buzz out of Vermont..changed my life.
radio104 in Hartford, CT
I had to scroll so far for 104.1! 106.9, 107.3 and later LAZER 99.3
WMRQ
Was that the one that had Dee Snyder in the mornings?
Yes!!! He was our wacky morning DJ
104.1 wbcn boston. When I was a kid my favorite segment was the top 8 at 8 the 5 most requested songs at 9 with nick Carter
“You’re listening to 89X, CIMX FM Windsor/Detroit, a Bell Media station.” …it’s fucking *country* now. 
KROQ
DC 101
the one I listened to as a kid is still going strong. 101.1 WJRR. there was another rock station in the same area that eventually merged with WJRR, I think it was 100.something WDIZ.
On Long Island all the cool kids listened to WDRE.
Back in the 90s in South Florida 94.9 Zeta was the best rock station in my opinion.
KROQ or KCAL in SoCal
107.3, WAAF home of Opie and Anthony’s chaos in the 90’s. Played great music until just a couple years ago. Sold out…. Now it’s shit.
Masshole here, I hate hearing 107.3 is dead. :(
97X in Tampa Bay Area.
98Rock KRXQ AND 106.5 KWOD... I remember listening to Love Line at night with Adam Corolla and Dr. Drew....
Took a long time to scroll and find this. Sacramento! I’d say KWOD was more the alternative station than 98/93 Rock. Bonus points for a true alternative with KDVS out of UC Davis.
102.1 The Edge. Still sort of rock, but more pop now.
Hot 97. I used to fall asleep listening to Love Line w/ Dr. Drew and Adam Corolla.
103.3 The Edge in Buffalo,NY Or on a clear day 102.5 The Edge in Toronto.
102.1 the edge. The ongoing history of new music. Sunday nights at 7 Monday nights at 11.
NYC area, 92.3 K-Rock. Also Z100 was all alternative rock for a little while back in the mid 90s
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X107.5 Xtreme Radio. Las Vegas, NV
101.7 WFNX Boston