| Formerly, Sonic Sessions were held (but not commercialized) by the city's real alternative station, 103.9 WDRE. When 'DRE died along with alternative music in the mid-1990s, most of the DJs and staff fled to their competitor Y-100, and brought such features as Sonic Sessions with them. Despite the slight makeover, Y-100 doesn't have a quarter of the street cred or hometown feel of 'DRE, and neither do it's mass-consumer sonic sessions. This is a corporate station that played Hootie and the Blowfish a couple years ago, trying to reinvent itself as cool by playing whiny white-boy music and pop-punk.
94.1 WYSP further stole the idea of private sessions, and I'm sure similar radio promos now occur across the country. Like radio stations' summer and Christmas concerts, these sell-out events are a good way to see which bands are the biggest tools of their record companies. | 
