Tuesday, May 19, 2009

WYMS -- Breaking out of the White Ghetto

One problem I've always had with alternative rock radio, AAA and rock radio in general is the general lack of racial diversity, Aimed at an all white audience, using nearly all white artists. Yet magazines like Spin, websites like Trouser Press and Pitchfork, there's no shortage of coverage of alternative hip=hop acts or black rock bands that seldom if ever gets airplay even on the most highly regarded stations. Radio Milwaukee is one exception. Here's a sample hour:

99.9 F. Degrees -- Suzanne Vega
Love Is A Murder -- The Constellations feat. Cee Low
Hold My Life -- The Replacements
Ms. Jackson -- Outkast
Summertime Thing -- Chuck Prophet
1901 -- Phoenix
Butterflies -- Rakeem De Vaughn
Up All Night -- French Horn Rebellion
Why Can't We Be Friends -- War
The Rake's Song -- The Decembrists
Digging In the Dirt -- Peter Gabriel
Right as Rain -- Adele
God Part 2 -- U2

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