Under the radar

Several conversations lately about the indie music business have led me to the same conclusion: that the percentage of music being made and sold under the radar of the corporate musiz biz is increasing to the point where hardly anything registers on the radar anymore. Sure, there are hits in different segments of the Balkanized music listening public, and there's American Idol, but all that has little or nothing to do with the realities and even aspirations of the vast majority of today's musicians.

The radar is rising.