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The Music Beat: Breaking the Algorithm’s Rhythm, These Students Give Music the Human Touch

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Every week before his radio show on the University of Virginia’s student-run station WXTJ, co-director Jacob Hobbs asks himself a question: “What do I want to subject everyone to this week?”

Hobbs, along with fellow WXTJ co-director Mary Hall, hosts “High Up and Low Down,” a radio show that features house music, neo-soul and tracks by artists like Lady Gaga and Charli XCX.

The show, Hall said, is “haphazard.” That’s by design.

“Our station is special because it’s entirely free-form,” Hall said.
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