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Many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here's "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al Shipley examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll. This time around, he gives Billboard's newest radio-airplay chart, which focuses on the lighter rock offerings served up by Adult Album Alternative (or "Triple-A") stations, a once-over: One of the biggest rhetorical divides that distinguishes music broadcasting from visual media is the difference in accepted connotations of the word "adult." In film and television, using that word to describe content means that something sexy and/or exciting is on the horizon, but in radio, "adult" formats are the dullest, slowest stations, programmed for the broadest, most boring... [read full story]
