ACTUALLY, I’M AMAZED IT’S STILL AROUND

You don’t usually turn to the Des Moines Register for cutting-edge music journalism, but its music critic, Kyle Munson, is wondering what’s up with the Lilith Fair:

Female musicians rallied in the 1990s with the traveling summer music festival called Lilith Fair, but nearly a decade later many of them seem to have more in common with “Charlie’s Angels.”

In other words, the Lilith crowd used to hew closer to the rootsy folk of, say, the Indigo Girls. Now the singers are changing their tune, going pop to compete in a post-Britney world.

Go read, and also note that the DMR screwed up the HTML formatting, making the middle 40% of the article bold text. That never happens here at The Bemusement Park . . .