The mainstream music industry doesn’t often smile upon the independent
music community. The radio does very little to support steadfast musical
idealists, and seems to have little tolerance for actual instruments.
Additionally, there’s always some coked-up record company executive
dropping some pretentious line like “instruments are obsolete” or
claiming an entire genre of music is “dead” in order to rally favor for
the ever-regressing, superficially-minded direction of the industry.
Lines are drawn (and occasionally snorted) and now we live in a time
where the Jack Daniels-and-glitter-soaked likes of Ke$ha can live in a
mansion after having only one album to brag about, while a million
touring musicians die in the back of a piss-stained VW Bus, from read more
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