Musical Flops

An empty concert hall, with a handful of event organizers, friends and family as the only audience; awkward silence broken by the screech of feedback at the end of a song; a half-hearted smattering of applause; or, in the extreme, outright booing and rotten fruits and vegetables pelted at the musicians… A new album that barely makes a ripple; the let-down and commercial failure of a much-anticipated release that disappoints; record jackets that are aesthetically off, looking low-budget, kitsc...