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Out of Obscurity
OoO highlights great but under-appreciated music albums, mostly from the 21st century, as selected by host DJ Poseur and a rotating brigade of fellow obsessives. Each co-host chooses an album pick to discuss at length, including consideration of why we think its awesome but woefully unknown to the listening public. All picks meet stringent criteria for obscurity (Under 50 user reviews in All Music Guide, Under 100k streams on YouTube). Features include games for the listener to play along with, like The Obscurity Quiz (in which albums are ranked by a contestant from most obscure to most famous), Score the List (in which cohosts compare their knowledge and music collections to online Top 10 lists), Stump the DJ (in which the cohosts challenge one anothers knowledge of obscure bands), and the occasional Scheduled Digression (in which we tackle a specific topic in music or the music industry). See also the companion subreddit (www.reddit.com) for links to all the albums featured in OoO episodes if you'd rather skip our yakking: r/MusicNobodyElseLikes Who should listen to OoO? Anyone dissatisfied by contemporary pop music. Anyone unfamiliar with but interested in independent music of the 21st century. Fellow obsessives who want reviews of beloved but obscure albums and find existing online resources limited. People who want something totally out of left field to spice up their music listening experience. Anyone who enjoys a contentious dialog about art. Rather than being the kind of podcast whose any given episode will be of general interest, it is hoped that with time, with an accumulated body of work, we will hit upon an album or at least a very specific style of music that is beloved by potential listeners as much as by us. Welcome to the wild, weird, and wondrous world of OoO! Language: en Genres: Hobbies, Leisure, Music, Music Commentary Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Obscurity Quiz: Female Vocalist Hard Rock
Episode 37
Saturday, 9 July, 2022
Welcome back idiotprogrammer, Robert Nagle, to OoO’s longstanding mini-feature. In it, he mentions an article from 2000 by Courtney Love and follows up, “https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/ Courtney Loe wrote this long screed in 2000! Re-reading it, I see that her take was on the mark. I'm in the publishing business and face some of the same issues (sort of). A lot of older authors have a hard time getting their rights back (It's called rights reversion), but there is a process for doing so. The labels grabbed a bit too much in the 1990s especially before digital sales was a significant chunk of their sales. But it all depends on your contract; if musicians got legal representation, they could know these things in advance, but labels signed people very quickly in the 1990s without musicians getting legal advice. labels used to be a little too controlling of the small number of ubercelebrities they signed on.”
