Homogenized Music

Mansing writes "The connections between broadcast radio and music industry are well known. In the old days, payola was the method to increase a song's (or album's) exposure. But now, the same "free market" corporate music that infects the music industry is also infecting the broadcast radio industry as well. What makes the article so informative is not the business angles, but how business has changed what is broadcast. Seeing the parallels between the recording industry's force fed music and Clear Channel's "nothing is left to whim or chance" programming, I now understand how hard it is for any non-corporate sanctioned music to become widely heard."

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Listen to Independant Radio

[Royster]

College stations, public radio stations, off-beat formats abound on the low end of the FM spectrum. You often get commercial-free stations and an eclectic mix of music.

Here in NYC, I listen to WFUV (Fordham University) and WNYC (public radio). When I'm out on Long Island, I listen to WUSB (SUNY Stony Brook) and Connecticut public radio.

Cultivate your ear.