Inhailer Radio: Listen to the Modern Rock 500

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Inhailer Radio: Listen to the Modern Rock 500

Now playing: inhailer.com/modernrock500

I’ve been looking forward to this since it was announced in March.

I’m reading her excellent book about 97X WOXY (chapter four is up next for me), and in her newsletter from last week, Robin James makes “the case that you should listen to to some or all of this year’s countdown even if you have no interest in WOXY in and of itself.”

She’s got seven big, good reasons, but perhaps most intriguing—and a point she argues about the station repeatedly in the book: “It offers a more accurate and in-depth account of the history of post-punk/modern rock/indie than any of the orthodox narratives …”

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