Scott Andrew reports on another ClearChannel development: its public statement that it's severing ties with independent "payola" promoters.
[...] I don't think this change is going to help indie artists much. ClearChannel stations are not exactly known for diversity of programming, and I suspect that there'll be even more homogenization once the Big Labels and Big Radio start working together. Let a thousand Plasticine-faced kewpie doll R&B pop idols bloom [...]
I couldn't have said it better. Thanks Andrew. My previous reports on ClearChannel here, here and here.
--------- Later: Another Scott Andrew tip: Paste. Looks like a great magazine and website to source and find music ClearChannel would unlikely play. Another source is Performing Songwriter. Check them out.
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Now I have seen everything. For the city with more parades and "cultural events" than nearly any other in the US - perhaps the world, this has to rank as one of the most curious since the S&M parade.
[...] "This is an effort to counter centuries of censure, to make masturbation more fun and to make it more accessible," said Thomas W. Laqueur, a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley and author of the recent "Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation," in a telephone interview before the event. [...]
So there you have it. Just another social event to put on your calendar. But I think I'll sit this one out. Yet for those who do attend, have fun at this group genitalia fondling Wack Fest San Francisco SOMA happening.
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Now I have seen everything. For the city with more parades and "cultural events" than nearly any other in the US - perhaps the world, 
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