Tynan's Anger

Arts & Culture Commentary from a Loving Digital Skeptic

Are music publicists in dire straits now too? [One Of Those Bands Got Paid]

Over a 24 hour stretch earlier this week, I had the following three encounters with music publicists: Stopped reading an email after I read the following: “One of my all-time favorite artists is playing two shows in NYC and I would absolutely love for you to come check him out…His debut album was released earlier [...]

Musical Predictions for 2010

Making predictions for the year to come is usually a doomed proposition: unless you get everything right, you look stupid, even if your rate of being right is quite high. This is in fact worse in the no-profit world, because unlike Jimmy the Greek or John Battelle, there’s nothing to be gained by gambling on [...]

[SONGS OF THE DECADE] #55 Spoon – The Underdog

SONGS OF THE DECADE #55 [For more info, read the Ground Rules of The Song of The Decade List]Spoon – The Underdog (2007) Spoon was a pop band that was only a flop on a major label because the band was too good in an era when major labels were trained to underestimate people’s intelligence. A [...]