Christian Rock Banished from Bay Area:
Well not really. But acoording to this article, Christian rock acts routinely skip over the Bay Area, the country’s 4th largest music market, when planning tours. No surprise there, we say, donning our Cultural Fascist berets. San Francisco, the bluest of the blue cities certainly would have room in its music scene for Three Chords for the Lord? But as they piece points out, no one visits New York City to hear country music and yet country music acts still play in Gotham.
That’s not the meat of it. Read this article for thoughtful, deft analysis of the concert business. Touring for a band in any city requires a precarious lining up of radio, outside media, ticket sales, venue and retail availability, each with their own interests and stake in the game. It’s amazing that this industry only became consolidated within the last ten years and is still this interwined, this dependent on outside factors. Facinating stuff.