A heat wave is on the heels of not only the Central Coast but a big chunk of the United States. On Tuesday, locals hit area hardware stores to stock up on fans.
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It’s cliché, but the age of the internet may be the greatest and worst thing to ever happen to music. For the listener, this is a renaissance, where most all music is at your fingertips for a fraction of what it once cost that is, if you pay for your music at all. But for the music creator, the music industry is an absolute hellscape. Sure, it has never been easier to distribute your work with sites like SoundCloud, YouTube and Spotify providing convenient platforms to test-drive a music career. But this age of extreme accessibility results in perhaps the most competitive atmosphere for artists in music history. With thousands upon thousands of musicians clamoring to make it to the top, it can feel impossible to get enough exposure to break out of the underground. Worst of all, many online music services do nothing to help budding artists with their publicity problems, concentrating song recommendations toward established artists.