To begin by beating a dead horse: Modern Radio sucks! We're lucky in the Tampa Bay area with 88.5, but even this leftist station leans toward mainstream boomer culture rather than underground or avant garde sounds. And who would blame them? Fiscal feasability dictates the output of modern media (d'uh). In a pinch, I tend to listen to right wing radio for a good, healthy gut laugh because its better than being depressed by cheesy mediocrity! Bottom line: Radio for the masses. Lowest common denominator pandering pervades every aspect of post-modern living. From the huge conglomerates to the indies, companies and not for profits do not have faith in our ability to think, contemplate and make our own decisions. This is not special knowledge that I've tapped into/ I do not have any extra intelligence not available to the rest of you- You are all well aware of the hoodwink that modern media attempts to pull over on us every day. Its like that "Everybody Knows" song by Leonard Cohen (he supercedes boomer culture, right?)
Not that one lowly podcast does anything to change all that, but I started one nonetheless. Check out music released and getting ready to be released by my record label, No Clear Records on No Clear Radio (http://sonicnadeau.podomatic.com) for a fun romp through genres like punk, no wave, folk, experimental, noise, garage and maybe even some sub denominations I'm not willing to type at this point in my life…
more jibberish after the jump…
This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2009.