Segarini – Grammys, Ga Ga’s, and Pitbulls, Oh My!

 

I was getting an overwhelming sense of Deja Vu writing about the Grammys this year. Not just because it has become something I do every year, but because it has become a sadly stagnant affair of old ideas that were bad to begin with and have only gotten worse.

Because DBAWIS just goes back to 2011, I had assumed that I have been barking at the moon over this yearly back-slap the Industry gives itself, its survivors, and its newly shanghaied cannon fodder for about 4 years, but I had forgotten DBAWIS’s humble beginnings…as a thrice-weekly column in the first incarnation of FYI Music, an online industry catch-all of the latest music news and the occasional feature….

Pat Blythe – Women & Songs — Part Two

Radio – Same Ol’ Same Ol’

I don’t listen to the radio much these days…okay….sometimes when I’m driving but that’s mostly for road and weather reports. Music….not so much. What music I do hear is the rotation of the same songs or the same tired formula over and over and over…. I will admit I tune into Q107 but that’s more for the DJ banter and the stories than the music. ….and the commercials, on any station,  send me over the edge!