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WTBU (FM)
WTBU (95.3 MHz, "The Bull") is an FM radio station licensed to York Center, Maine, United States. Established in 1987, WTBU is owned by iHeartMedia and serves York County, Maine, and the New Hampshire Seacoast. The station broadcasts a country music format. History The station went on the air in June 1987 as WQMI with a middle of the road format. In 1989, it became WCQL-FM as "Cool 95.3" with an oldies format. That was dropped in August 1996 in favor of a contemporary hit radio format, WXHT ("Heat 95.3"), which placed a heavy emphasis on 1980s new wave hits. That lasted until May 1998, when it went modern rock as "95-3 The Heat" via Radio One Networks. In March 1999, the station changed to a country format, becoming WUBB ("B95.3"). However, WUBB was faced with strong competition from country leader WOKQ, which also had a much stronger signal. WUBB also had a limited local presence when compared to WOKQ. As a result, WUBB never became a big ratings success. On January 10, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
York, Maine
York is a town in York County, Maine, United States, near the southern tip of the state. The population in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census was 13,723. Situated beside the Atlantic Ocean on the Gulf of Maine, York is a well-known summer resort town. It is home to three 18-hole golf clubs, four sandy beaches, and Agamenticus, Mount Agamenticus. From south to north, it is divided into the villages of Bald Head, Maine, Bald Head, York Village, York Harbor, Maine, York Harbor, York Beach, Maine, York Beach and Cape Neddick, Maine, Cape Neddick. York is part of the Portland metropolitan area, Maine, Portland metropolitan area. History First settled by Europeans in 1624, the plantation was originally called Agamenticus, the Abenaki term for the York River (Maine), York River, which also was the name given to the Mount Agamenticus, hill, visible from sea. In 1638, settlers changed the name to Bristol after Bristol, England, Bristol, England, from which they had immigrated. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Rock
Modern rock is an umbrella term used to describe rock music that is found on college and commercial rock radio stations. Some radio stations use this term to distinguish themselves from classic rock, which is based in 1960s–1980s rock music. Radio format Modern rock (also known as alternative radio) is a Rock music, rock Radio format, format commonly found on commercial Radio broadcasting, radio; the format consists primarily of the alternative rock genre. Generally beginning with hardcore punk but referring especially to alternative rock music since the 1980s, the phrase "modern rock" is used in the US to differentiate the music from classic rock, which focuses on music recorded in the 1960s through to the early 1990s. A few modern rock radio stations existed during the 1980s, such as KROQ-FM in Los Angeles, XETRA-FM in San Diego, WHTG-FM (now WKMK) on the Jersey Shore, WLIR on Long Island, WFNX (101.7 FM), WFNX in Boston, and KQAK The Quake in San Francisco. Modern rock wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida Georgia Line
Florida Georgia Line was an American country music duo founded in 2010 by vocalists and songwriters Tyler Hubbard of Georgia and Brian Kelley of Florida. Their 2012 debut single " Cruise" broke two major sales records: it was downloaded over seven million times, making it the first country song ever to receive the Diamond certification, and it became the best-selling digital country song, with 24 weeks at number one, until it was surpassed in July 2017 by Sam Hunt's " Body Like a Back Road." Their music style is described as " bro-country," which incorporates production elements from rock and hip hop music, and tends to cover subject matter such as partying, drinking, driving trucks and sexual attraction. Florida Georgia Line was formed in 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee as a cover band. In December 2011, they signed to the Big Loud label and in 2012, they released their second EP, '' It'z Just What We Do'', which charted on the '' Billboard'' Top Country Albums chart. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Is How We Roll
"This Is How We Roll" is a song recorded by American country music duo Florida Georgia Line with fellow country music singer Luke Bryan. It is the fifth and final single from Florida Georgia Line's debut studio album, '' Here's to the Good Times'', although it is only included on the 2013 ''This Is How We Roll'' re-release. Cole Swindell assisted the artists in writing the song. A remix, featuring Jason Derulo and Bryan was released on June 7, 2014. Critical reception In a review of the album's rerelease, Matt Bjorke of ''Roughstock'' wrote that it is a "song which is definitely well within the musical pocket each of the song’s writers have in their music and an obvious choice for single at some point. It’s another sing-a-long, small town love type of song but does that matter at this point, it’s a song that’s all about feeling good with people you love to be with." Website '' Taste of Country'' also reviewed the song favorably, saying that "‘Get Your Shine On,’ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semisonic
Semisonic is an American Rock music, rock band formed in Minneapolis in 1995, consisting of Dan Wilson (musician), Dan Wilson (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), John Munson (bass, keyboards, backing vocals, guitar), and Jacob Slichter (drums, percussion, keyboards, backing vocals). They are best known in the U.S. for their 1998 top-20 single "Closing Time (Semisonic song), Closing Time". History Formation and debut album After the breakup of Trip Shakespeare, Wilson and Munson joined up with drummer Slichter to form the band Pleasure in 1993. By 1995, they had changed their name to Semisonic. An EP, ''Pleasure'', was released that year on Boston indie label CherryDisc, and the studio full-length ''Great Divide (Semisonic album), Great Divide'' in 1996 on Music Corporation of America, MCA. Breakthrough and international success Semisonic's breakthrough came two years later in 1998 when their second album, ''Feeling Strangely Fine'', reached the Top 50 chart on the strength of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Closing Time (Semisonic Song)
"Closing Time" is a song by American rock band Semisonic. It was released on March 10, 1998, as the lead single from their second studio album, '' Feeling Strangely Fine'', and began to receive mainstream radio airplay on April 27, 1998. The ballad was written by Dan Wilson and produced by Nick Launay. The single reached number one on the US ''Billboard'' Modern Rock Tracks chart and the top 50 in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. It is certified gold in the UK and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song at the 41st Annual Grammy Awards in 1999. The song reappeared on the charts of three countries in 2011 after being featured in the movie '' Friends with Benefits'' and " Doomsday", an 8th season episode of the television sitcom ''The Office''; it attained its highest chart peaks in Australia and Ireland during this period. While the song is about people leaving a bar at closing time (also called last call), and widely interpreted as suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christmas Music
Christmas music comprises a variety of Music genre, genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas and holiday season, Christmas season. Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or in the case of Christmas carol, carols, may employ lyrics about Nativity of Jesus, the nativity of Jesus Christ, traditions such as gift-giving and merrymaking, cultural figures such as Santa Claus, or other topics. Many songs simply have a winter or seasonal theme, or have been adopted into the canon for other reasons. Traditional List of Christmas carols, Christmas carols include pieces such as "Silent Night", "Gabriel's Message", "O Holy Night", "Down in Yon Forest" and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". While most Christmas songs before the 20th century were of a gospel music, traditional religious character and reflected the Nativity of Jesus, Nativity story of Christmas, the Great Depression brought a stream of U.S. songs that did not explicitly mention the Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Stop Believin'
"Don't Stop Believin" is a song by American rock band Journey. It was released in October 1981 as the second single from the group's seventh studio album, '' Escape'' (1981), released through Columbia Records. "Don't Stop Believin shares writing credits between the band's vocalist Steve Perry, guitarist Neal Schon, and keyboardist Jonathan Cain. It is a mid-tempo rock anthem and power ballad. At the dawn of the 1980s, Journey was becoming one of the most successful rock acts of the era. The band added Cain on keyboards before entering the studio to record ''Escape''. Cain had kept the song title from encouragement his father gave him as a struggling musician living on Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard. The song is unusual in that its chorus does not arrive until the song is nearly finished; its structure consists of two pre-choruses and three verses before it arrives at its central hook. The band recorded the song in one take at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California. A top-10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSKX 95
WSKX (90.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a reggae and soca music Soca music, or the "soul of calypso", is a genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1970s. It is considered an offshoot of Calypso music, calypso, with influences from Afro–Trinidadians and Tobagonians, Afro-Trinidadian a ... format. Licensed to Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands, the station is currently owned by Better Communication Group. References External links * SKX Radio stations established in 2009 Reggae, soca and calypso radio stations 2009 establishments in the United States Virgin Islands Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands {{USVirginIslands-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXKS-FM
WXKS-FM (107.9 MHz), branded ''Kiss 108'', is a commercial contemporary hit radio station licensed to serve Medford, Massachusetts, and covering Greater Boston. Owned by iHeartMedia, the WXKS-FM studios are in Medford and the station transmits from atop the Prudential Tower in Downtown Boston. History The station first went on the air September 1, 1960, as WHIL-FM, a simulcast of sister station WHIL (now WKOX), and broadcasting its programming after sunset when WHIL signed off. For much of the 1960s, WHIL and WHIL-FM were country music stations, but in late 1972, both stations switched to beautiful music as WWEL and WWEL-FM ("Well"). The calls refer to Wellington Square in Medford, where the station studios were located. Despite moving the FM transmitter to the Prudential Tower in 1972, WWEL-FM was not very successful as a beautiful music format. In 1978, WWEL-FM broadcast the night games of the Boston Red Sox as their flagship station (WITS, now WMEX) delivered a poor nig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Sports Radio
Fox Sports Radio is an Radio in the United States, American Sports radio, sports radio network. Based in Los Angeles, California, the network is operated and managed by Premiere Networks in a content partnership with Fox Corporation's Fox Sports (United States), Fox Sports division and iHeartMedia, parent company of Premiere Networks. With studios also in New York City, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Tampa, Florida, Tampa, Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tulsa, Cincinnati, and Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio is broadcast on more than 400 stations, as well as FoxSports.com on MSN and iHeartRadio. Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) sold its stake in Sirius XM Radio in the second quarter of fiscal year 2013. As a result, nine of Clear Channel's eleven XM Satellite Radio stations, including Fox Sports Radio, ceased broadcast over XM on October 18, 2013. Fox Sports Radio returned to the Sirius XM radio lineup on January 20, 2017. The Sirius XM feed contains some l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
