Arigatomyna wrote:I've never heard of those songs, I'll look them up, thanks! I haven't listened to the radio in about five years (not at *all* - complete boycot when my favorite station stopped playing the 80s-90s in favor of new popular crap songs).
I don't think you would have heard those on the radio. At least not the radio in my town!
Corporate radio, as you mentioned, has been bogged down by the crap the labels pay the stations to play.
College radio is run by people with boring tastes in music (as an example, one of the shows on the university-run station here is some girl who thinks the fact she owns vinyl records means her taste in music is cultivated and obscure. Too bad no one has told her about the magic of preamps, because I could barely hear the damn things).
Internet radio has some hope, but most stations seem to stick to one very small segment of a genre, so you have to switch stations every few minutes to keep from being bored.
So I guess that when it comes to learning about new bands, you're on your own nowadays!
(Well, that's what budget label samplers are for)