Sadly, there's less and less music on WCBR these days. More local sports. More small business programming on Saturday mornings. For the first time, drive-time talk. That's the price you pay for music that listeners don't immediately recognize, for songs that advertisers can't find on the Billboard charts.
Variety is expensive, and everyone knows who has the money.
Capitol and Sony, meanwhile, get to pick the cream of the crop, send their huddled masses back down to the minors for a tune-up, and cash in on the toils of those labels that bothered to take a risk. But without major labels and modern rock radio, sometimes I wonder where more adventurous music would be. It's kind of like what they tell you about cigarettes. Puff on a few Camels, next thing you know you'll be drinking beer, then whiskey, then smoking pot . . . Maybe the music biz can learn something from drug addiction for a change.