Blog: Culture Bully

[by Adam P. Newton] It's become altogether too effortless (approaching the point of cliché) to rail against the music industry and what passes for contemporary pop music. Yes, we are all aware that the major labels support safe, easily marketable acts to continue to increase their bottom line in an era of declining physical album sales. And yes, the media moguls who run radio stations want to play a continual stream of the "hits" in a time when people increasingly look online or to their mp3 players for their music. These folks like money [...]