Wrif Radio

What other reviewers here are failing to say-​my Biggest Beef of all with the RIF-​is that-​in the AM-​they do not even PLAY any music! Just unfunny jokes and unphilosophical philosophizing. What they DO play in the PM is mostly Suicide grunge and satanic Death Metal (106 is more the Motley Crue Mavens) I remember the Good olé days with Dick the Bruiser Steve Costanz and Celia Labalone (who tearfully announced John Lennon’s Death in 1980) I say we Boycott their sponsors till they get it together!

I’d give negative stars if i could. The wrif and its ‘djs’ trade daily oral favors with Vince Neil from Motley crue. The female dj (Ann carlini) sounded too old to be relevant 20 years ago. My grandmother would be about as convincing in her job placement. The Station still plays basically the exact same lineup of music it had back in 1986, only now it’s 2015, and nobody likes motley fkn crue anymore. Occasionally they mix in such rock and metal greats like kid rock and the same avenged sevenfold song you’ve heard 6 dozen times this week. Half the time they play a good band, they play their worst songs (greenday brain stew or good riddance for example.) i challenge anyone to listen to this station for one hour and not hear a motley crue song or speech or commercial. It’s impossible. If we didn’t have 94.7, 104.3, or 106.67 doing wayyyyyyyyyyyy better, they might almost be tolerable as a half ass radio station.

Without drew and mike there is just no point.

Love this station — though if you have to visit to pick up tickets, it is in a very bad area. They really should mail out winning concert tickets and nominal prizes. It wasn’t safe.

Just heard that WRIF is getting rid of Drew & Mike, a fixture in the morning for most of my radio-​listening years! (
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As of May 17^th, my #1 preset will be something else, and I’ll take my 4 hours a day listening habit elsewhere — probably SiriusXM, online or to my iPod. Big time epic fail, Greater Media Detroit. Drew blows, you suck!

In a way, WRIF is more painful musically than even 955. This is because when you turn on 955 you know you are turning on the equivalent to musical diarrhea. WRIF fails because it covers everything in a layer of faux-​abrasive-​tough-​guy-​posing-​as metalhead stylings; but still plays the equivalent to musical diarrhea.
Straight from the get-​go, WRIF seems tailored for rednecks and NASCAR rallies. Not the cool, REAL kind of rednecks, mind you, who would strap you to a gun rack, dowse you in gasoline, read you the Bible and then flick the match. I love those guys. No, this is more of a rock station for people who enjoy bands like Creed and Puddle of Mudd. Fast food hillbillies who gorge on repetitive rock radio. Consummate middle American consumers, whose knowledge of metal music probably fails to extend past Fred Durst’s rantings or Ozzy’s «No More Tears».
No matter how many «tough guy» nick-​names they give their hosts like «Screamin’ Scott» or «Moshin’ Matt», they can’t make up for the fact that they play watered-​down garbage passing as metal. This wouldn’t offend me nearly as much if they didn’t claim they knew the first thing about heavy-​effin’ metal. Despite what the ignorant tell you, Slayer is not the only metal band, and playing crap like Shinedown, Buckcherry, and Nickelback nearly every hour defines exactly why this station sucks the big one.

I sometimes Listen to Drew and Mike, although they can sometime be pretty mean spirited, I don’t like when they give old people a hard time, it’s make for uncomfortable listening, They do get some pretty entertaining interviews on there, and Drew is very well read and ask the some good questions.
The rest of the station is pure bullshit, cockrock that I never listen too or want to. Funny I remember when the WRIF actually played ok music.

Drew and Mike are friggin ICONS of Detroit morning radio. There is no one better and imitators FAIL. WRIF then plays a mix of music throughout the day. They play things to appeal to the older crowd working the factory jobs around town but throw in a nice enough mix of modern hard rock to make me happy. The only thing I can’t stand about WRIF is «House of Hair» on Sunday mornings. Endless hours of retarded hairband music hosted by Dee Snider.
Overall there is no other station out of Detroit like it. They are the only one’s around with balls enough to play a little Ronnie James Dio — Holy Diver.