EPISODE · Mar 13, 2026 · 12 MIN
Was rock music “purposely dialed down” by the music industry?
from The Scoot Show with Scoot
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan says rock music didn’t just fade away. He says it was “purposely dialed down” by the music industry. For decades rock bands dominated the charts and the culture… but today they’re almost nowhere to be found in the mainstream. So what actually happened to rock music? Writer and musician Jaime Brooks joins Ian Hoch to explore whether rock really was pushed aside and what changed in the way the music industry works.
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Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan says rock music didn’t just fade away. He says it was “purposely dialed down” by the music industry. For decades rock bands dominated the charts and the culture… but today they’re almost nowhere to be found in the mainstream. So what actually happened to rock music? Writer and musician Jaime Brooks joins Ian Hoch to explore whether rock really was pushed aside and what changed in the way the music industry works.
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Was rock music “purposely dialed down” by the music industry?
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