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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 04/09/2026
Downtown Boys covering The Replacements rips!
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 01/07/2026
we've made a breakthrough with Linda Ronstadt. I think it's gonna be ok!
Linda Ronstadt greatest hits on vinyl from the 99 cent used bin
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Jason Cohen @cohenesque.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I wrote about KVRX, one of the many college radio stations that have been part of my life (both as a listener and DJ), for @texasexes.org
alcalde.texasexes.org
For Decades, UT’s Student-Run Radio Station KVRX Has Introduced Listeners to What’s Next
Cassidy Shultz, aka DJ hippiestank, KVRX's public relations director. It’s often said that football is the “front porch” of a University, the thing that everybody sees and knows, both on campus and ac...
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alex remembers the big cow 🐄 @thebigcow.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The Scots found the Boston cop slide @everyone @edsbs.bsky.social @brianmfloyd.bsky.social @cjzero.bsky.social
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 11/06/2026
strangest thing so far about becoming a parent is my 10mo hating all music except for the 2000 Billboard Modern Rock chart-topper "Last Resort" by Papa Roach
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 06/06/2026
I hate seeing posts about me
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 30/05/2026
Initially thought it was the quarry blasting again but this was way bigger
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 22/05/2026
an electric 40 minutes of television. Do yourself a favor and watch it before reading the interview. TCGS was a treasure
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 18/05/2026
mondays on WZBC are gonna be fun this summer! tune to 90.3fm and keep it freakin LOCKED
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
as a music listener you will be rewarded tenfold spending $15-$20 to see a local act at a local venue. make live music a regular thing, not one more unreasonable facet of our profiteering corporate hellscape
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 19/01/2026
on WZBC 90.3FM in Boston this morning with an hour of Minneapolis-St. Paul / MN bands 📻 wzbc.org ll 7-8am
wzbc.org
WZBC 90.3 FM Boston College Radio
Home of WZBC Boston College's premier student-run Radio Station.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
RIP to the Dugout Cafe by Fenway. RIP to everything but the Seaport "the city’s licensing board approved the transfer of its liquor license last week...The recipient, Earl’s Kitchen and Bar, plans to use the license for a new location set to open in the Seaport next year." archive.is/YUWuB#select...
Luke O’Neil, a local journalist and author, wrote “Boston’s Best Dive Bars” 15 years ago, chronicling their slow disappearance. Back then, there were roughly 120 true dive bars, he estimated. Today, there may not be 20.
“It’s the same story as anything else about how the city has changed,” O’Neil said. “Overpriced and homogenized and designed now as a playground for the rich. With every beloved old bar or music venue that closes, usually because of greedy land hoarders, the city loses a piece of what makes it special.”
Places like the Dugout, he added, were “the reasons why so many people were proud to live here or wanted to move here in the first place.”
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 11/12/2025
In 2026, writes @jwherrman.bsky.social, the media will become terminally addicted to gambling. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Someone on the @wfmu.bsky.social comments board just called attn to this article about AI and college radio, in which the author suggests WFMU is a college radio station based at ... Fordham? Did AI write the article?
nytimes.com
College Radio Keeps Its Cool
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 05/10/2025
reject algorithms, embrace passive aggressive handwritten comments on CD labels! also WZBC mentioned 📻
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society 22% in 2022 47% in 2025 No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.
pewresearch.org
Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports
Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.
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gbhnews @gbhnews.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Is it news...or is it "pink slime"? Junk, AI-generated news sites have come to the Boston area, aiming to manipulate you and make money on ads: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
wgbh.org
Local editors worry ‘pink slime’ journalism poses real danger
Local newspaper editors and journalism experts worry that flimsy news sites that rely almost exclusively on artificial intelligence, known as “pink slime” journalism are making it harder for readers t...
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 25/07/2025
are you telling me I can't do shots at the club with Crazy Frog?
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 15/07/2025
utility companies keep increasing delivery costs and booking record profits, but at least we get a Dominoes Pizza Tracker for outages
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 14/07/2025
shouting this to every exec in earshot
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 30/06/2025
Audacy owned the streaming platform RADIO DOT COM and still managed to fumble the bag against iHeart. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
businesswire.com
iHeartMedia and Audacy Announce Content Distribution Partnership
iHeartMedia, the #1 audio company in the U.S., and Audacy, a leading audio content and entertainment company, today announced that Audacy will expand the rea...
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
hamiltonnolan.com
The Subway Is Not Scary
Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.
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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Wrote about why there will never be another podcast quite like "WTF with Marc Maron." Gift link so everyone can read it!
defector.com
There Will Never Be Another "WTF With Marc Maron" | Defector
I heard Marc Maron announce he was ending his podcast the way that I imagine he’d’ve wanted me to—while walking through my neighborhood in Los Angeles, through wired headphones, just a little too hopp...
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 24/04/2025
we are not going back.
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 17/04/2025
The algorithm flattens all music into "vibes." It's boring, creepy, and inhuman. Music taste is irrational, which is what makes human-curated playlists (and radio!) so engaging, albeit challenging at times. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...
theguardian.com
‘One minute it’s “would you like to listen to Galaxie 500?”, the next humanity’s enslaved’: can anyone escape Spotify?
As a new book skewers Spotify’s effect on music, two Guardian music writers spent a week assessing the limits of living with and without it
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
icymi I wrote an essay about the trumpist campaign against empathy and why it’s so disturbing. featuring elon musk, gad saad, rank misogyny, that priest who did a nazi/elon salute, and a podcaster who wrote five pages about her deliberations over posting a black square for black lives on instagram
theguardian.com
Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 09/04/2025
similar to "centrist," terms like "impartial" carry politically loaded connotations for audiences. important read for news orgs as they navigate fractured audiences in the current media landscape
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 28/03/2025
hey college radio, blogs, public stations, anyone on the internet...bring back sessions!
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RadioInsight.com @radioinsight.com · 05/03/2025
’It’s All I Ever Read!’ (Or ‘Making Better Listener Promos’). by @RossOnRadio.com
radioinsight.com
’It’s All I Ever Read!’ (Or ‘Making Better Listener Promos’)
It always makes me happy to hear audience members on the air — when done right, it legitimizes the radio station and reminds other listeners that they’re still part of a community. I’ve always agreed with Alpha Libraries VP Steve Wall that “listener drops are just as important as the voiceover person.” But when I listen to a station critically, I almost always end up making a note about the sweepers and promos that feature “listener” audio.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
For my latest edition of @bloomberg.com Buying Power, I wrote about the enormous economic and societal risks that come along with this week’s news that the richest 10% of Americans now do fully half of the country’s consumer spending. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Rich People Are Firing a Cash Cannon at the US Economy—But at What Cost?
Industries get recalibrated, economic signals get crossed and the social fabric begins to fray.
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 19/02/2025
great read! imo the whole point of social media is to discover new people, places, and things that interest you I first got online to escape the suburban jock scene. I found a Gaslight Anthem message board and it quite literally changed my life
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Tori Bedford @bedford.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Five employees at the JFK Library in Boston were laid off today in connection with a Trump administration overhaul of federal workers. "Without them, we are unable to stay open," a source tells @gbhnews.bsky.social. "It has been chaotic and we are seeking clarity."
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 18/02/2025
man, this is so bleak. first, outsourcing the description of an Oscar Winning masterpiece to a chatbot. then, censoring the reason "a man takes hostages at a bank" because it involved the word gay or trans.
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Ockeroid @ockeroid.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description
Amazon Prime streamer screen showing description for Dog Day Afternoon “a man takes mistakes at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines.”
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 15/02/2025
a small movie theater in Roslindale Village would go crazy!
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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
“We are broadcasting from the glaciers of Greenland, to the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, to the snowy slopes of Denali, we are KEXP, you’re not alone.” - KEXP DJ Live DJs make a difference.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New Microsoft study finds that using generative AI at work makes employees' critical thinking skills "atrophied and unprepared" www.404media.co/microsoft-st...
404media.co
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 10/02/2025
Matt is brilliantly creative and approaches stories with a completely open mind and heart. He's a great ambassador for the radio and journalism industries: always thinking out of the box but never losing site of the people and our shared humanity. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/10/b...
bostonglobe.com
How WBZ NewsRadio reporter Matt Shearer became New England’s most viral journalist - The Boston Globe
Through his wacky New England dispatches, Shearer has racked up millions of views for the 103-year-old station on TikTok and Instagram, platforms where news outlets have struggled to gain ground.
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 10/02/2025
is gronk doing a Tim Robinson bit?
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 10/02/2025
how about no!
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 10/02/2025
wow I forgot how brutal TV ads are.
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Dart Adams @dartadams.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
America runs on cringe…
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 05/02/2025
there are two beasts raging inside me: WZBC and WCRB
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 01/02/2025
YMCA lap lane playlist has been alternating RHCP and Offspring for 30 minutes and I feel I've slipped into a dimension man was not meant to know
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 29/01/2025
the Great Scott green awning is Allston's Shroud of Turin
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 27/01/2025
Boston just get an earthquake? My Porcello bobblehead is going nuts
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 23/01/2025
in the run-up to the election, I felt insane trying to explain to people how these "apolitical" "comedians" with podcasts were just a new style of right wing pundit. terrific article and research showing how the same political topics, talking points, and guests made it onto the biggest shows
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 23/12/2024
powered through snow, ice, and a week-long cold to host my annual Rat Fever Christmas Special on WZBC 90.3FM this morning 🎄 airing tonight at 6pm on Uncertain.fm or catch it on the ZBC archive. happy holidays! spinitron.com/WZBC/pl/1997...
spinitron.com
Rat Fever Mon Dec 23 with Nick on WZBC 90.3 FM Newton
your weekly rock-n-roll dumpster dive
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nick @nickbenevenia.com · 04/12/2024
I hate Spotify wrapped and their fake word salad genre names
Spotify Wrapped screenshot describing music as "Indieheads Strut Indie Rock"
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 04/12/2024
Every year, Spotify Wrapped becomes something that feels actively hostile to the enjoyment of music, now with more blatant data mining to train AI. which is bad enough, but also remember that Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is a primary investor in an AI predator drone company
theverge.com
Spotify Wrapped 2024 adds an AI podcast to recap your listening habits
Your yearly recap is here.
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