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VIDEO: Nirvana live at Axis (WFNX's birthday party)
NIRVANA, already big in the indie grunge world, has just
released Nevermind, to be its major-label breakthrough. Kurt Cobain and
company headline WFNX’s Eighth Birthday Party on Lansdowne Street, with
the lesser-known SMASHING PUMPKINS opening.
PEARL JAM plays (fifth on the ...
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At the end of 1989, WFNX polled its listeners on the question: What was the best song of the 1980s? The results ran in the Boston Phoenix. Click the image below to see the results!
Here's the top 20, to give you an idea of what people in the 80s thought the best of the 80s were:
LISTEN: A promo for the WFNX Best of the 1980s ...
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Sure, WFNX is a rock-music station, but it has sponsored comedy shows, as well. At Harvard Square’s short-lived Catch a Rising Star, the station gets behind young New York comic JERRY SEINFELD, an observational wiseacre whose TV show later changed the Zeitgeist.
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WFNX news director Henry Santoro interviews ANDY WARHOL.
LISTEN: Henry Santoro interviews Andy Warhol
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Joy Division never played America. Their first US date was scheduled at the long-gone Undergound in the spring of 1980 when singer Ian Curtis hanged himself. The rest of the band, regrouped as NEW ORDER, play the gig anyway. Four years later— firmly established as a primo moody electro-pop band— they’re back, playing a WFNX show at the Opera ...
