OPINION: Ctrl-alt-ROCK! The Paradox of Popular Alternative Music and its Tentative Evolution
By JAMES MAZARAKIS It was a hot July 20, 2012: a Friday. I was tuned into 101.7 FM, listening to the Cure’s “Let’s Go to Bed” – WFNX’s last-ever musical broadcast. After nearly 30 years, the alternative Boston-based radio station was bought out. It turned into static at exactly seven o’ clock PM, and then…