The world is changing, music is changing, listening habits are changing and yet, our radios keep on pumping out largely the same old crap, no-matter who you tune to.
The big music stations spew out pop and prattle 24 hours a day. Local commercial stations are driven by advertisers and so they play it all very, very safe. Local public radio (the BBC here in the UK) tries to pick up what's left (largely patronising elderly people during the day and insomniacs at night).
To be fair, there are a very few rare exceptions where individual broadcasters are playing as much independent music as they dare and a few specialist stations do put out some interesting stuff but there are so few of them, at least in the UK. Chances are that their programmes are not at a time when you can listen anyway!
At the same time, people have MP3 players with a huge storage space and not a lot of fresh stuff to put on them. Recording technologies have moved on too, so that musicians can record and distribute great quality albums without signing away their grannie to the big labels. They just need a way to reach the audience that is thristy for great new music and are keen to try a few different types of music too.
So that's where Suffolk 'n' Cool fits in then!
It's a fact that as listening
becomes more individual, people want to make fresh
connections with their music and the world-wide communities
around them. That's really what Suffolk 'n'
Cool is about, helping you connect, wherever
in the world you happen to be.
Suffolk 'n' Cool is the answer to lot of
people's needs. New music, fresh content and an independent
voice, automatically downloaded for free to your computer
and (if you have one), to your MP3 player/iPod.
New content in manageable chunks that you can listen to
whenever and where-ever you like.
"Help spread the word"
If you know someone who doesn't
listen to independent podcasts, tell them about how:
- there is so much great new music available
- the people are taking charge of the music they listen to
- independent artists, at last, have a chance of making a
fair living by selling their music direct and at fair
prices