Recent Adds is the now yearly series where we check terrestrial radio charts to see what independent records have been added to the playlists recently. The idea is that it will help shine some light on semi-significant or at least payola’d out songs that slip below the blogosphere. Mostly it just results in me wasting hours of my life by trying to describe what Roscoe Dash sounds like when Roscoe Dash isn’t the one sounding like Roscoe Dash. (more…)

Recent Adds is the series where we check terrestrial radio charts to see what independent records have been added to the playlists recently. The idea is that it will help shine some light on semi-significant or at least payola’d out songs that slip below the blogosphere. Mostly it just results in me making fun of rap names until I overdose on Lex Luger synth sweeps. It’s been almost a year since the last installment so there’s a lot to talk about. Some of it’s actually good. Most of it features Yo Gotti. (more…)

This is the series where we check terrestrial radio charts to see what independent records they have been adding to the playlist. The idea is that it will help shine some light on semi-significant songs that slip below the blogosphere. Mostly it just results in me making fun of rap names until I overdose on swag rap youtubes. It’s been a while since the last installment, which means that some of these tracks have been bouncing around radio for a few months. (It also means that I missed a chance to catch the early stages of “Teach Me How To Dougie”‘s meteoric rise. Hopefully its fusion of “Teach Me How To Jerk” and “My Dougie” will usher in a new trend in dance rap hybrids. “Crank Dat Monkey Man,” anybody?) (more…)

This is the series where we check terrestrial radio charts to see what independent records they have been adding to the playlist. The idea is that it will help shine some light on semi-significant songs that slip below the blogosphere. And figure out whose payolaing which payholes. But really it just amounts to me making fun of youtube clips.

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I don’t profess to understand the innerworkings of the music industry at all, but there is truly no underbelly more confusing than the terrestrial radio arm. In this day and age the only place one ever encounters is in cars or diners or on construction sites, correct? The kids all have ipods and youtubes and other crazy gadgets. Yet, apart from the midday old school mixshows, “urban” radio programmers still target the 12-16 demographic almost exclusively. Where are children listening to radio? Or is there some sort of creepy manchild contingent that pushes records like “Stanky Leg” into the upper reaches of the charts?

In an attempt to answer these and other questions, I’ve dug deep into radio playlists, looking not at the major hits, but at weird indie records that have been added to radio recently. (Actually, I don’t think this process will answer any of these questions. I was just bored while waiting to do an interview.) (more…)