IB tease

COMEBACK KIDS: After providing his take on the history-making ascent of Jody Gerson to the helm of a major pubco, HITS industry insider I.B. Bad turns his attention to three labels that are “bubbling under,” in old-school trade-rag lingo. You may have noticed that we didn’t actually name these labels or their ranking executives in the previous sentence. Why? We have our reasons. See the following item for an explanation. But by all means read the column. (8/14a)