PAT MONTEITH, GET RID OF YOUR MUSIC MIX!

[Jimmy128]

For good Bluegrass listen on line to WAMU HD2 Washington D.C.

[CTListener]

Too bad for WUMB. I would listen to it for Folk only. Now they are trying to be hip and cool, but people are already listening to AAA on WERS and WXRV. Bye bye WUMB.

WUMB sounds nothing like WERS or WXRV. It still plays folk music as part of its music mix; those other stations don't and never did.

[Eli Polonsky]

WUMB sounds nothing like WERS or WXRV. It still plays folk music as part of its music mix; those other stations don't and never did.

I wouldn't say "nothing like". I'm sure that if I had the time to compare a weekday playlist for all three stations, you would see a number of frequently played artists in common. There are also some folk/folkish artists on the WUMB playlist that may not be on the other two stations, but nowadays they are playing them mixed among many others that are on the other two stations.

[notlob]

I’m wondering if blackgold is an alter-ego of notlob?

I have no idea who "blackgold" is but appreciate his/her style.

[Jimmy128]

NPR succumbs to Capitalism.

[notlob]

WUMB sounds nothing like WERS or WXRV. It still plays folk music as part of its music mix; those other stations don't and never did.

If one defines "folk" as traditional music passed from generation to generation, I hear very little of it Monday through Friday, 6am to 10pm. "WUMB Music Mix" is acoustic pop, electric pop, 60's/70's rock hits covers, lounge music, alt-country, americana and introspective singer-singwriter ballads. 

The closest thing WUMB has to a "folk" music program is Sandy Sheehan's "traditional folk" - http://wumb.org/programs/SandySheehan.php - Saturday night. It's a delight to listen when Dave Palmater substitutes and is allowed to be himself.

[freqlost]

 It's a delight to listen when Dave Palmater substitutes and is allowed to be himself.

Any show Dave does where he gets to display his musical knowledge is a delight.

[CTListener]

WUMB sounds nothing like WERS or WXRV. It still plays folk music as part of its music mix; those other stations don't and never did.

If one defines "folk" as traditional music passed from generation to generation, I hear very little of it Monday through Friday, 6am to 10pm.

That is the narrowest definition of folk, one that hasn't been applicable to what is now classified as "folk music" for at least 40 years. And that wasn't what folk was on the late, lamented folk/rock WCAS, nor on Dick Pleasants' old WADN, either. In fact, I don't recall it making up a significant part of the WUMB playlist "back in the day," either. There's no audience -- at least none with a pulse -- for Alan Lomax field recordings of West Virginia hill people singing plainsong ballads, or even for Burl Ives singing "Go Tell Aunt Rhody." Stick that sort of song between David Mallett and Lucinda Williams and you have a real trainwreck, and radios being switched over to -- yes -- WERS or WXRV. WUMB's ratings may be minuscule with the current mix, but they'd be invisible if traditional folk became the driving force behind the format.

[notlob]

Now that Monteith is out, it is time for the UMass community, the neighboring urban community and the taxpayers to look how the station is run.

WUMB is operated under license granted to UMass Boston, an educational institution, but I personally believe it is not run in the interest of the UMass students and the area "urban community."

I invite all to discuss options here and in a new Facebook open group - Occupy WUMB - https://www.facebook.com/groups/309550412463151

[raccoonradio]

What kind of music do you think the students would put on--would there be alternative rock,
rap/R&B, specialty shows for jazz, folk, blues, etc.? (Or would they want to keep doing
what they are with non-students; and isn't 'BUR about the same thing, very little if any
student involvement?)

Local bands, etc.? It seems to me that alternative rock, local music, etc. isn't necessarily heard on public/NPR-type stations. Even some stations have dropped folk, jazz, or blues--witness
WGBH, or Pittsburgh's WDUQ

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/breaking/group-calls-for-boycott-of-wduq-wyep-over-jazz-change-301488/

>>Some subscribers of public radio stations WDUQ and WYEP have been canceling their memberships in a boycott over plans to reduce the amount of jazz airing on WDUQ-FM (90.5) from 100 hours each week to six.

I do notice the following on their schedule though (from WUMB site)
WUMB Blues Sun 2 am
Hosted by Various UMass Boston student hosts