In today’s New York Times, music writer Jon Pareles has written a wonderful piece, New Songs, Old Message: ‘No War’.
The article discussed the mainstream musical community’s anti-war stance, and why none of the music is being played on the radio…
“The new antiwar songs are virtually absent from commercial radio stations, where most programmers wouldn’t dream of dividing or alienating their listenership. Instead, songs are arriving from various fringes ? on the collegiate indie-rock circuit, in hip-hop’s activist wing and among the heirs to folky 1960’s protesters…”