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Old 05-22-2011, 04:20 PM
 
Location: PRINCE GEORGES/MONTGOMERY
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How about music like alt-country, americana, indie music?

Much of anything like that anywhere in Maryland?
Wait, dont you live here? If so, do you have a radio?.....
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Old 05-23-2011, 04:00 PM
 
Location: Silver Spring, MD/Washington DC
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In addition to 103.1 FM WRNR out of Graysonville near the US 50/US 301 split on the Eastern Shore, there is also WXPN's (University of Pennsylvania's) repeater station (WKHS) at 90.5 FM in Worton. Towson University also has a fairly good college station, at I think 89.7 FM.

North of Frederick and the Baltimore area (and parts of the Hagerstown area) you can get stations from south central PA (Harrisburg/Lancaster/York area) while in northeastern Maryland, especially Cecil County, you can get Philadelphia (and Wilmington) stations. Some parts of Maryland also get stations from portions of the Chambersburg/Hagerstown/Martinsburg/Winchester corridor that are located in PA, WV, or VA.
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Old 05-24-2011, 08:21 AM
 
Location: Macao
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Wait, dont you live here? If so, do you have a radio?.....
Living in Japan....

Is PG loaded up with hiphop and r&b?

Much coming out of the University of Maryland - indie or otherwise? Since I believe you're in the CP vicinity...?
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Old 05-24-2011, 04:39 PM
 
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PG doesn't have its own stations. To clarify, there are stations physically located in PG, but they don't target just PG.

Any commercial station within the Metro area is more or less targeting the entire Metro area. There's no station that only targets PG, no station that only targets Arlington, no station that only targets Fairfax County, etc. All of the stations target the DC metro area as a whole.

UMD has a low powered transmitter that does the typical college freeform thing. Google "WMUC".
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Old 05-26-2011, 09:28 PM
 
Location: The Bay and Maryland
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They play the same popular chart topping Hip Hop/R&B on every radio station in the entire country because all of the urban radio stations in the country are owned by either Radio One or Clear Channel. However, the most popular music in DC/PG with native Black folks is Go-Go music. Go-Go music is a local home-grown sub-genre of Funk music that features a lot of call and response chants and percussion instrumentation. Radio stations like WPGC 95.5 and 93.9 WKYS have historically always played Go-Go along with the latest R&B and Hip Hop hits that are popular all over the country. On the other hand, Baltimore's popular local music genre is Club Music. Club music is basically a local sub-genre of House music. Baltimore Hip Hop station 92Q has historically played Baltimore Club music on weekends, holidays, lunch breaks etc. However, none of these local music genres popular with local Blacks are popular in other areas of the United States outside of this 200 miles radius. Hip Hop produced on a local level has never been a big movement in Maryland or DC unlike nearby Philadelphia and NYC.

Go-go - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Baltimore club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The older working class White population in Baltimore favors Classic Rock and listens to stations like 98 Rock. Aging mostly White middle class Gen Xer's find nostalgia in Alternative Rock stations which play nothing but popular Grunge and post-Grunge Rock music from the late 80's to the mid 90's. The working class and some of the middle class White populations in the rural outskirts of the Baltimore-Washington corridor favor Country music. Maryland may very well be the Northern-most state with the largest Country music following. Above the Mason-Dixon line doesn't have a big Country music following.

A classic example of DC-based Go-Go music:


A classic example of Batimore-based Club Music:

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Old 05-30-2011, 08:22 AM
 
Location: Macao
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They play the same popular chart topping Hip Hop/R&B on every radio station in the entire country because all of the urban radio stations in the country are owned by either Radio One or Clear Channel. However, the most popular music in DC/PG with native Black folks is Go-Go music. Go-Go music is a local home-grown sub-genre of Funk music that features a lot of call and response chants and percussion instrumentation. Radio stations like WPGC 95.5 and 93.9 WKYS have historically always played Go-Go along with the latest R&B and Hip Hop hits that are popular all over the country. On the other hand, Baltimore's popular local music genre is Club Music. Club music is basically a local sub-genre of House music. Baltimore Hip Hop station 92Q has historically played Baltimore Club music on weekends, holidays, lunch breaks etc. However, none of these local music genres popular with local Blacks are popular in other areas of the United States outside of this 200 miles radius. Hip Hop produced on a local level has never been a big movement in Maryland or DC unlike nearby Philadelphia and NYC.

Go-go - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Baltimore club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The older working class White population in Baltimore favors Classic Rock and listens to stations like 98 Rock. Aging mostly White middle class Gen Xer's find nostalgia in Alternative Rock stations which play nothing but popular Grunge and post-Grunge Rock music from the late 80's to the mid 90's. The working class and some of the middle class White populations in the rural outskirts of the Baltimore-Washington corridor favor Country music. Maryland may very well be the Northern-most state with the largest Country music following. Above the Mason-Dixon line doesn't have a big Country music following.
Excellent post. Youtube-wise, I liked the go-go FUNK sound. Didn't realize that go-go had that much funk to it. Would be interesting if some of them spun it a more edgier, Red Hot Chili Peppers kind of way. I've always been a fan of Bootsie Collins and Parliament as well. None of those are DC bands, but never realized go-go seems kind of in the same vein.

I can't say I like the house Baltimore style at all.

Regarding the working class whites, middle class whites, etc. Neither Classic Rock or Grunge sound appealing at all. I'm also betting that the country music that is popular outside the urban areas, is probably a very strong commericial-oriented country.

Ah, all makes sense though.
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Old 05-30-2011, 11:09 AM
 
Location: Washington D.C.
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Excellent post. Youtube-wise, I liked the go-go FUNK sound. Didn't realize that go-go had that much funk to it. Would be interesting if some of them spun it a more edgier, Red Hot Chili Peppers kind of way. I've always been a fan of Bootsie Collins and Parliament as well. None of those are DC bands, but never realized go-go seems kind of in the same vein.

I can't say I like the house Baltimore style at all.

Regarding the working class whites, middle class whites, etc. Neither Classic Rock or Grunge sound appealing at all. I'm also betting that the country music that is popular outside the urban areas, is probably a very strong commericial-oriented country.

Ah, all makes sense though.
GoGo is so diverse you will hear almost every genre of music with a GoGo beat.

Jazz GoGo
R&B GoGo
Hip Hip GoGo
Reggae GoGo
Rock GoGo
Soul GoGo
etc.


Even Gospel GoGo

YouTube - ‪DC Teaches Kirk Franklin How to Chop {Gospel GoGo}‬‏
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