Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.

Listen, before we start the show today, a quick note.

Thanks to you, the ongoing history of new music podcast has been racing up the podcast charts,

and we've been receiving a bunch of email and direct messages from fans of the show

that you wanted to hear more episodes.

Okay, done.

We've heard you and we're happy to do just that.

So we're ramping things up around here.

You will now get an additional ongoing history of new music podcasts every week all summer long.

So that's two shows for the price of, well, none. So get it. I mean, show is

free. Okay, wait, also enjoy this week's episode. Here we go. For decades, the attitude was that if

you recorded for an independent label, you were in the minor leagues. After all, if you were any good

or you made music that the masses were likely to enjoy,

you'd have been picked up by a major label, right?

The world of indie rock, which itself was a subset within the already left-of-center alternative rock scene,

was a place to put all the extra weird misfits, or those whose talent was questioned, totally unfair,

mostly. Yeah, there were plenty of drags when it came to indie rock, but this is also the

universe where people took chances, and every once in a while, something great inevitably happened,

a new sound, a new trend, a new band, or even just a new song.

And when things got weird with the music establishment in the era of music piracy and illegal

downloads, it was the indie world that was forced to step up and figure out what everybody

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