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The Hotlist: Industry is a Disaster, but New Doco CD Sizzles

You can feel Trevor Booth’s frustration: “We’re not metal, we’re not
emo, we’re not punk, we’re not hip hop, we’re not roots rock, we’re not
power pop, we’re not a jam band, we’re not any single genre.

We’ve been
trying to make something new, and that’s costing us money.

“Since club owners can’t ’silo’ us into a genre so they can package us
with lower level acts, they only give us the odd bookings when they have
open nights. We play lots of the ‘rep making’ clubs on Tuesday nights.


It sucks.

Why do we have to fit a silo to get work? I love playing
music.

Is it asking too much to want to make my living at it?”

Booth isn’t the only one who hates the mess that is the music industry
circa 2008.

Labels long ago abandoned artist development and the big
ones decided that suing music lovers was going to be their new business
model. Club owners have always been jackals.

And don’t even get us
started on radio.

The Net and mobile companies represent the future, and a lot of people
are busting their butts to innovate a way for genuinely talented artists
like Doco to make a living.

The really good news is that people like Booth are willing to fight to
the last man for their music.

And Doco’s new release, The Fossil Record,
just rages with a creativity that no single genre can contain.

By all
means, give them a listen at myspace/doco