No Rock And Roll Fun

KURT DEFEATS DURST: Of course, while the news that radio stations across the US are abandoning Limp Bizkit and Puddle of Mudd in favour of 'classic alternative' is, from a cultural point of view, a good thing (we picture radio station managers pitching up at second hand stores trying to swap large piles of Nickelback albums for Nevermind and anything by the Jesus and Mary Chain), it's also, from a cultural point of view, a defeat on a massive scale. College Radio has become a proper, grown-up market segment; and stuff that once meant something has been identified on flip-charts and computer punch cards as the best way to flog beers and cars.