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...Record companies are still conditioned to the late Sixties style of breaking new bands," charges Greg Shaw; "their whole approach to underground music is completely out-dated." Shaw's independent Bomp label and distributorship was formed in 1969. "The most effective marketing strategy today is to go through import channels. Elvis Costello, to name but one, was broken in this country through imports...
...Clash's first American release, Give 'Em Enough Rope, barely nudged the lower reaches of the Top 200 album charts but import sales of its debut LP and singles were so strong that the British punk quartet was able to sell out a 12-date tour of 2-3,000 seat halls in February, 1979. English new wave bands 999, Magazine, Gang of Four, Penetration, Ultravox and Sham 69 toured America without the benefit of a Stateside recording contract--acts of unprecedented chutzpah and optimism--and found enthusiastic crowds already familiar with the music packing their club dates. The Gang...
...such "world cars." Models will be assembled in places like Japan and South America, in addition to Detroit, from parts that are manufactured in several countries. The result will be stiffer competition among the remaining auto giants. According to a congressional subcommittee study, for example, Europe will import an estimated 200,000 U.S.-built cars by 1983, compared with only 30,000 last year...
...clerk in a government import-export company in Warsaw at 8 a.m.; his status as a white-collar worker means little, in fact, because the same frustrations are shared by all. The morning bus ride takes only 40 minutes, but the congestion at rush hour is suffocating. Thus he often rides with...
...Senate Finance Committee last week approved a $39 billion tax cut. Under the Constitution, all tax legislation must originate in the House, but the adept Senators attached the tax cut to a minor House-passed bill that would allow the Foundry United Methodist Church of Washington, D.C., to import six bells duty free...