I’m assuming someone out there remembers these?  Mark Goodman (who coined the unpleasant neologism “stereoize”) was plugging them like crazy on the first day the network aired.  I think they were stickers (?) you could affix to yr FM tuner, so as to remember what dial position at which you might play MTV IN STEREO [...]

“The Dodos are relatively new to the placement game.  Their song ‘Fools’, from the 2008 album Visiter, was placed in an ad campaign for Miller Chill, a lime chelada beer, that started in May this year. Miller approached the band during the past winter.  After the band accepted, ‘they came back with the commercial mock-up [...]

A few years back, I was able to attend a screening of Larry Charles’ polarizing Bob Dylan paean Masked and Anonymous, and I was amused during the ensuing question and answer session at the director’s cavalier, almost to the point of laughing, attitude toward the majority of the audience that were completely baffled at the [...]

A post on Stereogum today highlighted a settlement between the State of New York and Sony/BMG music publishing over “inducements for airplay,” otherwise known as “payola.”In a series of events that should come as absolutely no shock whatsoever to anyone familiar with the corporatized media culture in the United States, Sony/BMG had been (gasp!) paying [...]

The best interview show on radio or television today, NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross, last month (June 1) featured a talk with the New York Times’ Frank Rich, who writes a great weekly column on the intersection of arts and politics. NPR is fantastic about archiving all of its past content, accessible for free [...]