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ClearChannel HELPS Indie Rock...?!?!
KharBevNor:
THE MUSIC I LIKE WILL NEVER, EVER GET POPULAR.
Fact. If it did, the world would be a perfect and beautiful jewel of a place.
Kai:
Infact, I can say a good 97% of my music will never get popular, because Zappa is dead, Beefheart is retired, The Residents are too uncommercial, Primus' time has passed, Les Claypool and his thousands of side projects are too uncommercial, Buckethead/Bill Laswell/Praxis is too weird, Jam Bands never get popular except with hippies, Mr. Bungle is too uncommercial for radio play, and the rest broke up or are pulling a Dead Kennedys/Misfits thing.
bluebear:
i thought it was more like-
australia- it's the end of the universe.
Kai:
Austrailia - Wtf Mate?
Freelance Physicist:
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Indie 103 in Los Angeles. Before anyone reaches for their knives, I know it's not really an indie rock station (they play mainstream music like Nirvana and Pearl Jam as well as the more obscure). But, it's still the best station in Los Angeles and has forced KROQ (the only other non-classic rock station in the entire city) to start adding more than one song a week to their playlist (just this afternoon, Arcade Fire played live in their studio--fucking awesome).
The station started out with a weird deal with ClearChannel: CC didn't own the station, but bought all of its advertising time and sold it for them, thus leaving the DJs (one of which is Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols) to do what they want. Recently, the FCC declared that this deal constituted "owning" a station, thus declaring that CC had too large a stake in Los Angeles, forcing them to divest a few months ago. Luckily, the station is still going strong (even LA Weekly was panicked over CC leaving since Indie 103 doesn't cater to a niche audience (I've heard Frank Sinatra's "I've Got The World On A String" follow the latest Foo Fighters single) and they were afraid that advertising revenue wouldn't materialize).
A deal with the devil that actually worked out for everybody.
- station website
- stream of the broadcast
P.S. I've just noticed that 'clearchannel' appears in the website for the webcast, so now I have no idea what kind of relationship the two entities maintain.
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