music is goods these days more than anytime before. goods needs to be advertised to sell well. advertisiment is just one part of coin, the other one is customer who buys it. promoter will blame as much as people accept = they buy a ticket. this isn't anything new to me, and I think it is being like this for many years as far as i remember. at least in area i'm living.
i think it's just not matter of promoters and they advertisement gimmicks, but also position of music in today's life. deep inteligent music turned into elevator music so quickly. milions of tracks on internet waiting to be downloaded, then listened 1time, and moved to a bin. no strong relationship how it used to be when you could buy music on physical medium.
one more fact to mention. when i am reading artist's biography it seems like we have at least hundreds or thousands leaders of the industry, the bests of the best, with thousands of releases no-one listens to, but looks nice in bio. not enough selfreflection, maybe?