Blog: Not Many Experts

There’s always an unwarranted level of cynicism when an accessible new band gets a lot of press coverage and then is signed to a major label, as is the case with LA trio Haim. The assumption is always made that the major label has been behind the image and the music the whole time, pulling strings and manipulating the music media. Maybe I’m just being naive, because I’m sure that that does happen sometimes, but it is also the case that great pop music will naturally get a lot of press attention and major labels will naturally want to sign [...]