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Until this year, investors seeking to submit proposals aimed at curbing executive pay were largely frustrated by SEC rules that disallowed such petitions on the basis that compensation was a matter of day-to-day ! management. But under pressure from Congress and some institutional investors, the SEC changed its tune by allowing shareholders to put "nonbinding" resolutions to a vote at annual meetings...
...taste for amplifier feedback, singers in plaid, nuns with guitars, whatever , odds are they'll get it. Because despite this wonderful vision we have a musical subculture, pretty much all music in America is pop music. Popular, as in we the people who crew it up to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Let's not kid ourselves--this is a consumer culture, and music gets listened to because it gets bought. It may be art, but distributors don't call it product for nothing . Music listeners eat the stuff, and the alternative fan is particularly finicky about...
Sometimes I wish there was an alternative to alternative (a thorny pipe dream, kind of like, "What comes after post modern?") There could be, too, and without changing a single tune or reshelving a single CD. All we need to do is change the way we listen. Pay attention to what a song is rather than what it's not. Find a tune you like and have faith...
...album, "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)," is getting a fair amount of airplay on progressive radio stations, and for good reason. The simple message of the song. David Lowery's passionate vocal performance and Johnny Hickman's solid lead guitar make for a great pop tune. With a chorus like "What the world needs now is a new Frank Sinatra, so I can get you in bed/What the world needs now is another folk singer like I need a hole in my head," "Teen Angst" bares it all in the name of rock...
That politics appears only to be television spectacle denudes it--dissolves it into the rest of the homogenized junk on the airwaves--no more than a music video, or a sitcom or a made-for-TV movie; just as easy to tune out, just as irrelevant to daily life. The language of Madison Avenue is the language of pollsters is the language of politics...