"Beastie Boys at the Best Music Poll: Right before Check Your Head came out, I booked the Beasties to play. The Bosstones opened the show. I have never seen a pit like this before. The roof felt like it was going to blow off of Avalon. The band was amazing. I was hanging in the upper loft part above the stage, watching the bodies fly off the stage.

Fort Apache Series launches. Buffalo Tom, Radiohead, Letters to Cleo, Morphine, the Muffs, Billy Bragg, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Goo Goo Dolls, and more perform and are broadcast live on FNX from the famed Cambridge studio.

WFNX listeners voted on the best song of 1993. Here's #1:

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"In 1986, when the “old rock” station in town tried to do a live concert broad cast of the Godfathers, a band that we had championed in Boston, people flooded in the Paradise Rock Club and chanted “FNX!” over and over again. Our call letters were clearly belted over their airwaves, and our listeners booed their jock off the stage."

Okay, it’s cold out there on the waterfront for this year’s Best Music Poll show at the Pavilion. BOB MOULD warms things up, playing a high-decibel solo electric set. AMANDA PALMER of the Dresden Dolls pulls out a ukulele and sings a version of Radiohead’s “Creep” during her set and unveils new tunes from the (now-released) Who Killed Amanda Palmer? DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE plays for keeps, and frontman Ben Gibbard salutes the chilly crowd, saying, “You guys are troupers!”

TAKING BACK SUNDAY plays WFNX’s show at City Hall Plaza, six months after releasing their major-label debut, Louder Now. More than 40,000 listeners show up, making it one of the biggest WFNX shows in recent history.

WFNX hosts numerous bands live at First Act Guitar Studio, performing in an intimate acoustic setting.