RIP 89X

[kingchuck69]

"I Want It All" is a current.

89X has only been reborn for a week. Give 'em time.

Detroit is thankful that they have WRIF, 89X and Alt 98.7. Too many major markets lack a station that plays new rock. When WLUM goes to Jesus soon, Milwaukee will only have a faint signal from WIIL 95.1. New York lacks a new rock station. Ditto with San Francisco, Atlanta and Toledo. You can thank corporate radio for that.

 

[HecticArt]

I'm glad that they are back for sure.

I'm also good with variety. Throwing in the oddball songs keeps it interesting.

 

[sadchild]

several songs from the 2020s

Cool

 

[HecticArt]

This is too good.

I'm guessing that it must have something to do with parts of the broadcast that are automated.
AI will be the end of us one way or another.

 

[Channel98]

89X is perpetuating some stereotypes. Very few 21st-century country songs include a banjo or a "twangy chorus" – and there have been very few country songs in which someone loses a truck or a dog. (Red Foley's Old Shep came out in 1936!)

The four Johnny Cash songs were from his 2002 album American IV: The Man Comes Around. They are Hurt (which reached #56 on the country chart in March 2003), Personal Jesus, Give My Love To Rose and The Man Comes Around. Personal Jesus, a remake of a 1989 Depeche Mode hit, was released as a single but failed to chart.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

listener "Tal E. Wacker"

 

[sadchild]

And "Tess Tickle"

 

[Channel98]

McDonald yesterday told the listeners to his CKLW morning show that he was moving to 89X: "Not an easy decision to make. The past six years on AM 800 have meant so much to me. Having a platform in the community and bringing so many different perspectives, debates and opinions, listener engagement, the calls, the texts, it’s just been so much fun. That was very very hard to say goodbye to, You haven’t heard the last of me, I will be in this seat again filling in."

Dan McDonald Moves To 89X To Anchor Afternoons

Bell Media's recently relaunched Alternative "89X" 88.7 CIMX-FM Windsor/Detroit has begun staffing up as Dan McDonald will move over to

radioinsight.com

 

[Channel98]

WCLI in Enon/Dayton (Ohio) switched from classic country to alternative rock on October 2. Unfortunately the station is using the idiotic name "101.5 The Fridge, Dayton's coolest alternative." Oy vey! "Fridge" is not a real word. Anyway, among the artists played are Metallica, Oasis, Sombr, Cake, Creed, Collective Soul, Cranberries, Black Keys, Pearl Jam, Bush, Weezer, Nirvana, Blink-182, Puddle Of Mudd, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Death Cab For Cutie, Lumineers, Imagine Dragons, Mumford & Sons, My Chemical Romance, Cage The Elephant, All-American Rejects, Of Monsters & Men, Foster The People, Rage Against The Machine and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

101.5 The Fridge

1015thefridge.com

 

[sadchild]

Metallica, Creed and Collective Soul aren't alternative. But I suppose any station that calls themselves 'rock' have to play them.

 

[Channel98]

Nobody asked for another sample of the 89X playlist – so here is what was just played. Heads Will Roll reached #7 on the Alternative Digital Songs chart. In Canada, Ahead By A Century went to number one, Brother Down went to #2, Can I Call You In The Morning reached #3 and When You Know Someone got to #6 but they did not chart in the United States. You Got To Lose is a remake of a song written by Chicago blues singer Earl Hooker and first recorded in 1958 by Ike Turner. Hooker recorded his own version in 1969.

About A Girl (Live) – Nirvana (1/1994)
Ahead By A Century – The Tragically Hip (--/1996)
Amber – 311 (13/2002)
Back To Friends – Sombr [Shane Michael Boose} (1/2025)
Bad Guy – Billie Eilish (1/2019)
Bedroom Posters – Yellowcard/Good Charlotte (6/2026)
Best Of You – Foo Fighters (1/2005)
Black Hole Sun – Soundgarden (2/1994)
Brother Down – Sam Roberts (--/2002)
Can I Call You In The Morning – Beaches (--/2025)
City Walls – Twenty One Pilots (11/2025)
Dirty Paws– Of Monsters & Men (19/2013)
Dracula – Tame Impala (3/2025)
Drive – Incubus (1/2000)
End Of Beginning – Djo [Joe Keery] (1/2025)
Fall Back Down – Rancid (13/2003)
Feeling This – Blink-182 (2/2003)
Gold On The Ceiling – Black Keys (1/2012)
Gone Away – Offspring (1/1997)
Gotta Get Away – Offspring (6/1994)
Guerrilla Radio – Rage Against The Machine (6/1999)
Happy Cry – Blue Stones (--/2025)
Heads Will Roll – Yeah Yeah Yeahs (--/20009)
Ho Hey – Lumineers (1/2012)
Homewrecker – Sombr [Shane Michael Boose] (3/2026)
I Hate Everything About You – Three Days Grace (2/2003)
I Will Possess Your Heart – Death Cab For Cutie (6/2008)
Kids – MGMT (9/2008)
Like A Stone – Audioslave (1/2003)
Little Sister – Queens Of The Stone Age (2/2005)
Long View – Green Day (1/1994)
Look Out For Me – Turnstile (2/2025)
Loser – Beck (1/1993)
Mangetout – Wet Leg (2/2025)
Messy – Lola Young (2/2024)
Mumbai Madness – Dr. Ozi & Soltan (--/2020)
Nobody's Soldier – Hozier (37/2024)
Numb – Linkin Park (1/2003)
Ocean Avenue – Yellowcard (21/2004)
Paralyzer – Finger Eleven (1/2007)
Picturing Love – July Talk (--/2016)
Pumped Up Kicks – Foster The People (1/2011)
Radioactive – Imagine Dragons (1/2012)
Riptide – Vance Joy (1/2014)
Rubber Band Man – Mumford & Sons/Hozier (15/2025)
Santa Monica (Watch The World Die) – Everclear (5/1995)
Scar Tissue – Red Hot Chili Peppers (1/1999)
Shake It Out – Florence + The Machine (11/2011)
Stargazing – Myles Smith (3/2024)
The Great Divide – Noah Kahan (1/2026)
The Hardest Button To Button – White Stripes (8/2003)
The Wreckage – Silversun Pickups (--/2025)
There's No Other Way – Blur (5/1991)
Trainwreck 1979 – Death From Above (14/2014)
Uprising – Muse (1/2009)
Use Somebody – Kings Of Leon (1/2009)
When You Know Someone – Valley (--/2025)
You Got To Lose – Black Keys (--/2026)
12 To 12 – Sombr [Shane Michael Boose] (4/2025)