Heather Luke and Allison Smith are out with a new Badflower single called “Promise Me,” which is already being played on WEBN, KROQ, KITS, KTBZ and KPNT, among others. The response to the single has been unequivocally enthusiastic, which is always a relief. Lori, Ted and I shared radio airplay “first alerts” until way past our bedtimes, beginning again early this morning. Thursday at midnight, Dualtone launched “Gloria,” the first Lumineers single from their upcoming album III. The key to navigating social situations while clear-eyed was easy-plan an exit strategy immediately upon arrival. If I’ve learned anything, it’s that you will eventually “come around to my way of thinking,” to quote Urge Overkill, but damn, you sure make it soul-crushing sometimes.Īlso this week, I celebrated 27 years of sobriety. I remember when the format didn’t want to play Pearl Jam, or countless other bands now considered core artists. This week marks my 29th anniversary at the “career cul-de-sac” known as HITS. I feel like a broken record, but most PDs (and consultants) have lost the plot. It’s unfathomable to me that the format hasn’t fully recognized that she, and artists like her, are the key to radio’s future. Half of the Top 20 on the iTunes Alt singles chart is made up of Billie Eilish songs. So much for our “edge.”ĭave Grohl, whose daughters are superfans, compared Billie Eilish’s impact on her audience to the early days of Nirvana, whose fans existed outside of the mainstream but kept growing exponentially as Kurt’s music provided the voice for a generation. Now, it seems mandatory that Modern Rock stations have to play a Nirvana song every hour, thereby turning the music that once defined a generation into background sonic wallpaper. I knew Kurt-not well, but we’d circled the same orbit for years-somewhere there’s a photo with his hands around my neck, while the band Eugenius made goofy faces in the background. The Modern Rock format was borne from the youthquake incited by Kurt, Mark Arm, Chris, Eddie, Andrew, Billy, Layne, Mark Lanegan, etc. Ted Volk and I worked “Smells Like Teen Spirit” at radio-he was at the label I was at HITS.
The Tad album cost four times what Bleach did, for whatever that’s worth.
The weekend in Seattle was surreal and so sad-my own history with Sub Pop involved loaning Jonathan Poneman and Bruce Pavitt money ($40k) to keep the label afloat, which went toward the making of Tad’s 8-Way Santa and Nirvana’s Bleach. My next call was to Bob Waugh at WHFS-we’d attended many Nirvana shows together, including the taping of MTV Unplugged, and he was the first station in the country to play “Heart Shaped Box,” which I’d hand-delivered from the U.K., days before the U.S. He worked at Gold Mountain at that time, and, through tears, told me that Kurt Cobain had died. Twenty-five years ago today, I called my boyfriend in NYC from a pay phone at Burbank Airport, moments before boarding my flight to Seattle for a Sub Pop weekend.
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