Alright. It's a weekend, fit for laundry-doing and non-angrifying news reading, so here's some musical info. Last week Mark Morford went off on a rant about -- well, let him tell you:
This is the problem with rock radio. It has become the last option, the thing you listen to only when all other options fail, when you're too tired to pop in a CD or too lazy to reach for the iPod or just a little too buzzed on premium tequila and postcoital nirvana to care about searching your glove box for that old AC/DC tape. In short, rock radio is for people who buy their Matchbox 20 CDs from Target.It has become background noise, something you leave on just to keep you from falling asleep as you drive to Sacramento, more ads than music and more generic than electrifying, a nearly dead form that lost its spark about 15 years ago and that is quickly giving way to Sirius and XM and your ability to burn your own custom-mix CDs for pennies apiece and listen to them for three days and throw them away and burn a new one.
So many of his readers said, "Dude! You don't know about this and this and this and this?" So he wrote a new column including all those suggestions. Have fun.
(Via Seeing the Forest).
Posted by Linkmeister at March 13, 2005 07:50 AM