HFS RIP, but the HFStival Lives

As most of the guys who chime in here probably know, DC's original alternative rock radio station 99.1 WHFS went to a Latin pop format recently, dismaying many but putting a quick end to its slow, painful death in the eyes of many more. While I intended to start a thread discussing whether rock radio as we know it is pretty much dead in the water in 2005, I didn't get around to it. (I'd still enjoy doing so at some point.) Meanwhile, WHFS has sort of, kind of been resurrected . . . on a Baltimore talk radio station during certain hours in a frequency that doesn't really reach DC's airwaves. And from what I have read, they're still churning out the same overplayed, underthought playlists from Billboard's Top 100.

The powers that be have, though, managed to keep the HFStival alive an well, at least according to this set list:

Billy Idol
Sum 41
Social Distortion
Garbage
Foo Fighters
Good Charlotte
Coldplay
The Bravery
Citizen Cope
Jimmies Chicken Shack
New York Dolls
Unwritten Law
They Might Be Giants
Louis XIV
Echo and the Bunnymen
Interpol
The Stereophonics

The show is in Baltimore, appropriately, at the Ravens Stadium. I saw the HFStival there five or six years ago, and it was a great one. I nearly died in an Offspring moshsmash, and the Chili Peppers unveiled Californication brilliantly. Anyway, I'm not sure I'm even young enough to qualify for admission, even though the concert is chock full of 80's artists (not to mention the New York Dolls!), but it looks like it'd be an entertaining show.