It’s very likely that wherever you are, it’s scary hot. One of our roving correspondents just returned from London, where the heat was horrific. Harry Shearer is doing his Le Show radio program from there, prior to his appearance at the Edinburgh Festival; he compared the situation to that of Los Angeles, where it rains [...]
Le Show on the road
You’ve possibly read coverage this week of the SXSW Festival. Did you know that Harry Shearer took his Le Show radio program to SXSW? He had musical guests, including Lyle Lovett and Shearer’s wife Judith Owen. I had never heard Owen sing before; I found her to be a little overly emotive, in a Tori [...]
Shock me, jock me, rock me.
Periodically, I go through a period of getting annoyed at shock jocks (For example, see here). Curiously, I don’t typically get worked up at Howard Stern. I couldn’t tell you why, except he’s perhaps never seemed as “mean” as the others. A couple weeks ago, there was a profile of The Junkies, one of the [...]
“The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools…”
Here is an item I wrote on The Pop View back in late August of 2000: ALTERNATIVE TO WHAT: A recent article in the New York Times nicely summed up the quandary facing “alternative” (AKA “modern rock”) radio stations. Namely, that the mainstream rock radio station across town is playing the same music. Korn, Limp [...]
“I was seriously thinking about hiding the receiver…”
No big surprise. Radio sucks and has for years. Even public radio has gotten narrower in focus and less adventurous, as it has learned to be self-sustaining. So those of us who care have been undeniably gleeful at Eliot Spitzer’s pursuit of Sony on payola charges. But I think some people are fooling themselves if [...]