Band of the day, but there is a story along with it. Yesterday while I was on a Sonia Tetlow kick I looked at the site for Louisiana Jukebox, a TV show she was on. Somewhere around there, I saw a reference to this interview with Jen Trynin about her travails with the major lables in the record business. From the blurb:

It was 1994, the days of Pearl Jam and Nirvana, used corduroys, and T-shirts with strange logos. It was post-Liz Phair, mid-Courtney Love, and just shy of Alanis Morissette. After seven long years of slogging it out in the Boston music scene, I suddenly became the object of one of the most heated major label bidding wars of the year. One day I was playing opening slots at local clubs; the next I was "taking meetings" with the heads of every major label I'd ever heard of. One minute I was a waitressing-desktop-publisher, dropping knives and deleting commas; the next I was signed to Warner Bros. Records, on the radio, on TV, in Rolling Stone, and on the cover of Billboard magazine. My future was set, they told me. I was about to become a big star. But that didn't happen.

From there, I browsed to the official Jen Trynin website and listened to the MP3s she has up there. I liked them alot. I haven't actually listened to the MP3 of her radio interview yet, but I'll do that today. It sounds fascinating. I'm all over this subject matter. It's not that different from what I was talking about with Sonia Wednesday night.