I think if there's anything that can make a big difference, it's a media-centered site like Apple's iTunes that has things like music videos, sampling, playlists, online radio stations. I can listen to more new bands in a week through iTunes than I ever heard introduced as a new band on a radio, in all the years I've been alive.
Ironic, ITunes does pay indie promoters, namely Michele Clark
http://www.micheleclarkpromotion.com/http://www.micheleclarkpromotion.com/aaastation.ht ml
not any songs currently but were buying Michael Franti I believe onto the airwaves.
For starters, the airwaves are not owned privately, they belong to the public, that means you and I.
Radio exposure is how artists get noticed and how they sell products and services.
In a free market there has to be laws regarding fairness, i.e. antitrust/monopoly laws.
If someone with more money can assure that you do not have a chance at having a career, well that's like if you got a phd on merit based scholarship, and someone rich that's a high school dropout both apply for the same job and the dropout slips the interviewer $10,000 and get's the job.
You just spent 7 or 8 years in school and some dolt who only learned to build a birdfeeder and play dodge ball get's the job due to palm greasing.
If our whole society went this way, it would slowly collapse, as if it isn't already.
The money probably won't stop the practice or make the radio stations turn over their setlists to a progressive utopian audio environment, but if the information gets out that most idiots aren't really listening to something cool, rather what a bunch of 50 year old board execs are pushing, maybe the shame will wake up people.
This has an excellent opportunity for an Emperor's new clothes scenario, but the word has to spread.
Unfortunately the biggest disseminator of information is the media, and it certainly isn't shouting from the rooftops that "we're responsible for the shitty music by taking bribes.
It all has to happen grass roots style, either that or wait for the baby boomers to die off.
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Actually those indie fees are charged to the artists. They don't see a dime until their profits exceed the promtotion fees.
I think if there's anything that can make a big difference, it's a media-centered site like Apple's iTunes that has things like music videos, sampling, playlists, online radio stations. I can listen to more new bands in a week through iTunes than I ever heard introduced as a new band on a radio, in all the years I've been alive. Ironic, ITunes does pay indie promoters, namely Michele Clark http://www.micheleclarkpromotion.com/ http://www.micheleclarkpromotion.com/aaastation.ht ml
not any songs currently but were buying Michael Franti I believe onto the airwaves.
For starters, the airwaves are not owned privately, they belong to the public, that means you and I. Radio exposure is how artists get noticed and how they sell products and services. In a free market there has to be laws regarding fairness, i.e. antitrust/monopoly laws. If someone with more money can assure that you do not have a chance at having a career, well that's like if you got a phd on merit based scholarship, and someone rich that's a high school dropout both apply for the same job and the dropout slips the interviewer $10,000 and get's the job. You just spent 7 or 8 years in school and some dolt who only learned to build a birdfeeder and play dodge ball get's the job due to palm greasing. If our whole society went this way, it would slowly collapse, as if it isn't already.
The money probably won't stop the practice or make the radio stations turn over their setlists to a progressive utopian audio environment, but if the information gets out that most idiots aren't really listening to something cool, rather what a bunch of 50 year old board execs are pushing, maybe the shame will wake up people. This has an excellent opportunity for an Emperor's new clothes scenario, but the word has to spread. Unfortunately the biggest disseminator of information is the media, and it certainly isn't shouting from the rooftops that "we're responsible for the shitty music by taking bribes. It all has to happen grass roots style, either that or wait for the baby boomers to die off.