Celebrate, or drown your election sorrows next Thursday at Arlene’s Grocery! It’s going to be a Grand Old Party with our friends, Karwreck and Damnsels. Bring a friend! The first 10 people to purchase our CD get a free, bootleg copy of our last show at Arlene’s. EXCITING, ISN’T IT?
When: Thursday, November 4th @ 10pm
Arlene’s Grocery95 Stanton St
New York, NY 10002
(212) 995-1652
Have you ever wondered why the radio sucks? How horrible “artists” not only make it to the airwaves but get played every hour on the hour on every station in the country?
pay•o•la: n. Bribery of an influential person in exchange for the promotion of a product or service, such that of disc jockeys for the promotion of records.
Payola was made illegal in 1960, but “The Big 5” (whoops, Sony and BMG just merged, now it’s The Big 4!) major record labels have found plenty of ways around it. Did you know that Clear Channel (the world’s largest radio broadcaster, concert promoter, and billboard advertising firm) no longer promotes independent artists? Unless you’re on one of The Big 4 (or you happen to be a millionaire), chances are your band doesn’t have a chance to get real air time.
Here is a ray of hope! We can’t figure out why this isn’t a huge story, but maybe it will become one: New York State Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, is going after EMI, Universal, Sony-BMG, and Warner (The Big 4) for alleged payola. Subpoenas have been served!
Read the article here. IT’S ON!!
Once in a blue moon, a fan will write us and say “I hope you guys can play out here sometime soon.” Well, so do we. But chances are that’s not going to happen for a while. So if you’re one of the people that stumbled onto our website somehow and actually hung around long enough to become a fan of ours, YOU ROCK! We would love nothing other than to play for you.
As a pre-Halloween treat (or trick), here is a live version of The Quickening from our Arlene’s Grocery show in August. Thanks!