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Posted in music on March 21, 2013

WFNX and The Boston Phoenix, RIP

by Bill Pearis

vintage WFNX bumper sticker...
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In a poignant signal of a fast-changing media landscape, The Boston Phoenix sent out a short and simple tweet Thursday afternoon: "Thank you Boston. Good night and good luck."

With that terse dispatch, the ground-breaking, Boston alternative weekly, which only six months ago reinvented itself from tabloid newspaper into glossy magazine, put a final punctuation mark on its announcement that its current issue, dated March 15, will be its last. - [Boston.com]

We were sad to learn that Boston's alternative weekly, The Boston Phoenix, shut its doors last week. We were even sadder to hear that WFNX, Phoenix Media/Communication Corp.'s radio station which went from a terrestrial to online in 2008, played its last song ("Old Friend" by Sea Wolf) on Tuesday (3/19) at midnight. Back in the late '80s and early '90s, WFNX was one of the best commercial alternative radio stations in the country, with a rotation that seemed to be made by music lovers and not just a cookie-cutter playlist of other stations's playlists. You'll both be missed.

Not all bad news: the Phoenix's sister publications in Providence, RI and Portland, Maine will stay in business.

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Tags: Boston Phoenix, RIP, WFNX
posted at 1:45 PM on March 21, 2013 in music | Comments (15)

Comments (15)

The Phoenix' music editor/WFNX' music director/host of Boston Accents, Michael Marotta, has relaunched his blog: http://vanyaland.blogspot.com.

Posted by Carl Lavin | March 21, 2013 2:05 PM

Sad that they closed down before printing a cover story on Alt-J :(

Posted by Anonymous | March 21, 2013 2:35 PM

I remember when they used to charge for the Phoenix.

Posted by Anonymous | March 21, 2013 3:08 PM

this is The Metro's fault... and the fact that their radio signal always sucked and that they lost any semblance of good programming 15 years ago.

Posted by Anonymous | March 21, 2013 3:18 PM

wait, they broke up? lol coachella in trouble

Posted by Anonymous | March 21, 2013 4:12 PM

Allston Pudding is where it's at for Boston music, and I gotta say, it's the tits. http://allstonpudding.com/

Posted by Steven | March 21, 2013 7:12 PM

WFNX has pretty much been gone for several months now

Posted by Anonymous | March 21, 2013 7:57 PM

WFNX has become an EDM channel called Evolution. It's not bad for electronic music, but very sad I can't hear back-to-back classic rock. Jazz sunday morning was killer too.

Posted by Anonymous | March 21, 2013 8:23 PM

jenn pelly

Posted by p4k hate bicth lyfe | March 21, 2013 9:42 PM

Yo, boston sucks. New York City, greatest city in the world, baby!

Posted by cannibalistic suburbanite | March 21, 2013 10:37 PM

^ It's a shitload better than where you're from Idaho

Posted by Anonymous | March 21, 2013 10:58 PM

Yo, you jelly bro? I'm calling my people up there to bring it to you NYC style!

Posted by Anonymous | March 22, 2013 6:28 AM

Nobody in Boston gives a fuck about that libtard butt-wipe screed, or a station that plays The Cure incessantly.

Posted by Anonymous | March 22, 2013 8:40 AM

Fuck WNFX. They never gave two shits about underground music in/around Boston.

Case in point they gave a fuck about Bullet Lavolta only when BV signed to a major label.

What annoyed me about WNFX is they gave the illusion that they were groundbreaking when all they did was play what was charting then stick their stupid call letters in there like "We broke them".

MIT and Emerson College radio is where it's at for Boston/metro music radio.

Posted by D | March 22, 2013 5:57 PM

* WFNX

Posted by D | March 22, 2013 5:58 PM

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