Garrett Michaels Exits 94/9

Garrett Michaels (on the left behind the mic stand)

 














    There was a time- during the life of this blog- when I blogged about both 94/9 and 91x regularly, and had people reading because of it, but then I said to myself, "Is that what you want?"  To blog about the gossip of two alt rock radio stations in San Diego?  The answer, alas, was no.

 But truly, this has been an earth shattering week in the tiny little snow globe of Alt Rock radio in San Diego, CA, with local stalwart Robin Roth taking over at now-female-led 91x and just a day or two later, Garret Michaels leaving 94/9.  Garret Michaels has been program director at 94/9 for a decade.  That is since 2002.   That is a lengthy tenure./

  It will be interesting to see what he does next, since he has so much knowledge and experience about rock radio in the U.S.  Maybe working for an independent radio promoter with a major label client?  That would be a pretty sweet gig. After all, being able to get a song on the radio in the United States is pretty much the most valuable skill that a person can possess in the music industry.  Michael Jackson hired his radio promotion guy as his manager before Thriller came out.

 I  think it's important to fully recognize and acknowledge all the support that Garret Michaels gave to local music during his decade at 94/9.  I think 94/9 served its audience well while Garret Michaels was in charge.

Great Crocodiles Show Review from Austin Temper Trap Show

This writer and I had pretty much the same take on different shows from this tour. (AUSTIN TOWN HALL)

Crocodiles Join Dirty Beaches on 1234 Shoreditch Festival

2012 1234 Shoreditch Festival in SHOREDITCH PARK IN THE HOXTON NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE BOROUGH OF HACKNEY AKA EAST LONDON UK. is on September 1st, 2012.




Here is the line up:

CROCODILES

ICEAGE
THE DUKE SPIRIT
DIRTY BEACHES
FRANKIE ROSE
DEAP VALLEY
MARK STEWART (THE POP GROUP)
HOLOGRAMS
JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD
CITIZENS!
BO NINGEN
DROP OUT VENUS
VON HAZE
LONG MEG
ATOMIC SUPLEX
ZULU
ZEOTROPE
COSTAL CITIES
JOSEPH COWARD
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
THE NEAT
NIGHTMARE AIR
SKELETONS ON HOLIDAY
LOS CRIPIS
BLAST
OLD BLUE LAST DJS
ROUGH TRADE SHOPS DJS
DOUBLE DENIM DJS
LOUD & QUIET DJS
S.C.U.M
GABRIEL BRUCE
VISIONS OF TREES
LA FEMMES
GROSS MAGIC
LET’S WRESTLE
MINNY POPS
EAGULLS
BLEEDING HEART NARRATIVE
THE PROPER ORNAMENTS
SAVAGES
OFF LOVE
OFFICIAL BURNED TOAST
ATOMIC SUPLEX

  Looks FUN.

Robin Roth Named Music Director At 91x, Are You Fucking Kidding Me?

Robin Roth, 91x Music Director 6/11/12

 In what has to be the biggest "local music" story of the year, hands down, 91x has named LOCAL MAIN STAY Robin Roth as their music director.  What does it all mean?  Congratulations to Robin Roth for the new gig.  That makes her like the most powerful person in San Diego local music?

 I also found that the current owner hired Christy Taylor as the program director after Capone left.

Garrett Capone left 91x in January of 2012. Garrett Capone left to work at Crush Management, who manages, among others, Wavves. I guess the Music Director, or MD, works for the Program Director, or PD.  I only have one question: Who gets the cash payouts to ensure that we listen for Stone Temple Pilots for an eternity? No I'm just joking ha ha.  Is Garrett Capone managing Wavves at Crush Management? Can Garrett Capone get 91x to play the next Wavves single.  I guess you just need the right person to hand over the full bag of cash.

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Book Review

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

p. 1818

Public Domain Books 1994

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    It's appropriate to end any survey of Jane Austen's body of work with Northanger Abbey.  Northanger Abbey was both the first book she ever completed for publication and the last book to be published. Part of the mystique surrounding Jane Austen derives from the fact that none of her prep work/juvenilla survived.  All we have are the Novels and criticism/biography that started only after her death.

    Essentially, Northanger Abbey's publication history is the most interesting, enduring facet of the work.  Written by Jane Austen as early as 1798, 1799, it was sold to a publisher who simply sat on it for a decade.  Jane then moved to buy back the manuscript, which she did, during her life, in 1813, however she never published it.  Northanger Abbey was published instead posthumously as part of a four volume set containing Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and two volumes of biographical material. 

   It is fair to say that Northanger Abbey is not as sophisticated as Austen's later works, but it is also fair to say that none of her other books were written when she was 23-24 years old.  It's incredible that the book simply wasn't published, especially when you compare Austen's already established third-person narrator to the clumsy epistolary novels and picaresques of the 18th century English literary scene. 

  That should be quite a consolation to dis-respected Artists of all areas- be it literature, music, film etc.  Even Jane Austen couldn't get her first novel published.  You could almost say that the Narrator/main character combo are too self-aware.  I imagine an audience member reading Northanger Abbey at the turn of the 18th/19th century and feeling that it was too "artificial" or "affected" to be real literature.  But of course, that is the enduring strength of the Jane Austen body of work, her sophistication as a writer.