While Clear Channel converts its national alternative rock affiliates into glorified hard-rock stations, pushing unctuous post-grunge acts like Hinder and Seether, Milwaukee’s independently owned alternative station flaunts a broader playlist that supplements usual suspects like Green Day and Foo Fighters with new music from artists like Phoenix, Metric, Death Cab for Cutie, Passion Pit and Silversun Pickups. And unlike Clear Channel stations, FM 102/1 eschews syndicated shows in favor of local programming like Brian Kramp and Jon Adler’s morning show, Suzanne Sando’s Sunday night Milwaukee music hour “The Scene” and, Sunday through Thursday nights, Ryan Miller’s “Indie Soundcheck,” a grab bag of all the indie-rock that other alternative stations neglect.
http://www.fm1021milwaukee.com/
Runners-up: 88Nine Radio Milwaukee, WMSE 91.7
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