Yeah, that essay crossed my mind.

In general, have things gotten better for indie bands since then?

I read that indie bands signed to smaller labels are making more money than they used to, but this has more with sales transparency than with any major change in royalty schemes.

In that NYTimes magazine article that was linked to, they were talking about The Gossip, a band that was with Kill Rock Stars, had just signed with Columbia. It made me a little sad.

Sleater-Kinney was with KRS for years and always refused to sign with a major, so I hope The Gossip at least got some good advice before hand.

Rick Rubin won't save them. To be fair, though, the Gossip sounds way more mainstream commercial than Sleater-Kinney ever did.

Is this where I link to Steve Albini's classic tome The Problem With Music?

Dear god, please don't. The current bf is obsessed with Steve Albini's message board. I hear about that guy's opinion on everything from tipping etiquette to the caveman vs. astronaut debate on a daily basis. I am officially tired of him.

But I've read the thing you linked to. At least it sounds like the members of the band are leading good lives now.

If there's any sort of feature you'd like to see, let me know!

A way to search band names to find the latest show you played them on and thus their complete list of songs played. Is that possible?

Hey tina! I added a simple search form for my radio playlists. It probably still needs some tweaking, but it's live and available right now: [link]

Let me know if you have and problems with it, suggestions, etc.

Jon, this is awesomeness!

I did a quick search for "centro" "centro-matic" and "centromatic" to see how sensitive it was (not case sensitive but won't find bands if you only put in partial names - you gotta do the whole thing).

but I did find this:

[link]

all the others are with the hyphen.

This is *kinda* what I do for a living (content management) so I will be sure to tell you if I find anything odd - tell me if you don't care (though bless you, I know you do) and I'll stop.

Seriously. I have a ton of work to do tonight and this is going to cause major distraction. Fun!

Chicagoistas - hurry home and shut your windows! It just started POURING on the far north side.

but I did find this:

Thanks. I DO care. I'm constantly finding crap like that and fixing it.

not case sensitive but won't find bands if you only put in partial names - you gotta do the whole thing

You saw the drop-down thingie where you can choose to find entries that start with or contain a string, right?

Also, I made it insensitive to whether band names start with a "the" or not. I am quite pleased with myself about that one.

Oh man! And you can search by song title, too. Even more awesomeness!

You saw the drop-down thingie where you can choose to find entries that start with or contain a string, right?

I did not! But now I do. Good job, Jon.