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Originally Posted by Robbie
If you are a fan of guitar centered rock music...it is difficult to find it on the radio, unless you want to listen to nothing BUT old stuff.
ZZ Top put out a really good song a couple of years ago. I listened to it on Vimeo and only found it because someone had posted it on social media.
It had nowhere to be played on the radio. And the radio is still a place where people listen to a lot of music while driving.
It's kinda puzzling to me. These bands have huge fan bases. And whenever they put out a new release...there is not much publicity and absolutely nowhere on the radio to hear their newest stuff.
Van Halen put out a new album with David Lee Roth a couple of years back. I got the CD and really liked it.
The local "rock" station here in Vegas played the song "Tattoo" off of it a few times the first day it came out.
Then the next day...it was back to playing "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" and "You Really Got Me" every other hour and I never heard any of that CD on the radio again.
Not saying to only listen to "old" bands. Just saying that when they do put out new stuff...you can't find it on the radio. Which sucks.
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The reason is that radio has now become so corporate it is a joke. If a Van Halen song is playing on your local rock station in Las Vegas at 2:14 pm then that same exact song is being played on EVERY local rock station at the same exact time all across the country. This is why "DJs" (what a joke) cannot play what they want to play, like they used to do back in he day. Now, they get a memo from Corporate (usually based in another city) that tells them they MUST play "Hot For Teacher" rather than the new Van Halen song or they will get fired. Seriously, this is what happens.
Why? Because Corporate has determined that more people like 'Hot For Teacher' and will thus listen to their station longer thus better satisfying their advertisers. End of story, end of game, end of new music being played.
And today, with so much fragmentation and people digging their own playlists and such, there isn't a movement in society to demand new music be played on radio stations so nothing changes. It's sad. Why can't radio stations play something like 'The Ocean" by Zeppelin instead of "Stairway To Heaven'? Oh right, see my reason above. Sigh.