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RadioBDC rocks the Paradise

Kay Hanley performs at the RadioBDC launch party at the Paradise.

Kayana Szymczak for the Boston Globe

Kay Hanley performs at the RadioBDC launch party at the Paradise.

RadioBDC, Boston.com’s new online radio station, celebrated its launch with a party for friends and listeners at the Paradise Thursday. Station DJs Henry Santoro, Julie Kramer, Adam 12, and Paul Driscoll toasted the crowd from the stage before Kay Hanley played a rocking set. Later in the evening, we spied Urge Overkill’s Nash Kato — wearing sunglasses
indoors — chatting with Globe publisher Chris Mayer. . . . Meanwhile, Phoenix Media/Communications Group chairman Stephen Mindich
announced Friday that Kurt St. Thomas will be the executive producer of WFNX.com, the new online radio station. From 1987-1995, St. Thomas was program, music, and production director at WFNX.