Ryan McKern

Why are the only Beastie Boys songs I ever hear on the radio here in east­ern Mass­a­chu­setts "Sab­o­tage", "She's Crafty", "Fight for Your Right to Party", "No Sleep Till Brook­lyn" or "Inter­galac­tic"? 20 god damned years putting out records, some­thing like 15 radio sin­gles, and these are the ones I hear over and over again on local com­mer­cial radio?

Radio in the Metro West/Boston area is a fuck­ing ghetto. It seems to be per­pet­u­ally stuck in the early-to-mid 1990s, with The Red Hot Chili Pep­pers, Soundgar­den, The Beastie Boys, Stone Sour, Green Day, Staind, Aero­smith, Alice in Chains, Weezer and Metal­lica just lit­ter­ing the musi­cal land­scape like so much flam­ing wreck­age. It's like this never end­ing cycle of those bands, swirled in the fes­ter­ing toi­let that is this radio mar­ket, with just a smidge of old No Doubt or Bush sprin­kled on top to break up the cycle.