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Signs of the apocalypse...
KharBevNor:
The latest indie-click ad to go into rotation makes me uber-sad.
Bauhaus supporting NIN!? Trent Reznor should be cleaning Peter Murphys shoes with his goddamn tongue!
Rant about stuff you hate about the state of modern music I guess. I could go on, but it would last all fucking night.
karl gambolputty...:
The only place you'll ever hear good songs in the mainstream media is in ads. For an entire generation, Iggy Pop is that guy who does that cruise-line ad.
Garcin:
I'm actually really happy with the state of modern music. I've enjoyed at least 20 new albums, about half by new bands, since the beginning of the year. I'm looking to go to between 10 and 15 concerts within the next three months. I don't have cable, so I don't care what is available on TV. I don't really listen to the radio, so I don't care what people are playing. Between recommendations from my friends, the recommendations I get here, the stuff I read about on Pitchfork, BrooklynVegan, and TMT I never lack for new bands and albums to explore. I have a 10 dollar per month Rhapsody subscription, a 50GB "constant rotation" collection, and hundreds of additional CDs that I've never bothered ripping to depend on -- not to mention my friends' collections.
I'm not gloating here; instead I'm saying that -- in my situation where I can basically have any album I want either instantaneously streamed or delivered to my doorstep within three days -- and where on the basis of ohmyrockness.com alone I could go to kickass shows 5 days of the week every week if I wanted to -- how could the situation be any better?
This is my upcoming.org profile:
Date Event Name Status Comments People
May 02 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Attend 0 11
May 18 Architecture in Helsinki Attend 1 6
May 26 Soul Position (feat. RJD2 & Blueprint); One Be Lo Attend 0 2
May 27+ Sasquatch Music Festival Watch 8 55
Jun 04 Tapes 'n Tapes, Figurines Attend 0 1
Jun 10 Cat Power Attend 0 8
Jun 18 Band of Horses with Mt. Egypt and The Can'... Attend 0 1
Jun 25 Feist, Jason Collett Watch 0 18
Jun 26 Liars w. Apes NEW! Attend 0 1
Jun 27 The Streets/ Lady Sovereign Attend 0 7
Jul 06 Broken Social Scene Attend 0 8
Jul 19 Diplo + CSS + Bonde de Role Attend 0 6
Jul 27 The Hold Steady [FREE!] Watch 0 13
Aug 04+ Lollapalooza Watch 5 28
Aug 25 Ted Leo/Pharmacists Attend 0 11
Oct 06 Built To Spill w/ Camper Van Beethoven; Helveti... Attend 0 3
KharBevNor:
On the contrary, the state of modern music is absolutely shit. Innovation is at an all time low, post-modernism pervades the mainstream and sub-mainstream, and all the popular alternative 'heavy' music is complete, total, absolute shit, the only redeeming quality of which is they occasionally steal a riff from In Flames or Dark Tranquility. I have very few people I can talk to music about off the web, and even with them I can only discuss a certain range of bands. I cannot recruit anyone to be in a band with me because I do not want to start a shite metalcore or pop-punk band. No-one else likes my favourite artists, or my favourite songs. Everyone is either living in the mainstream (at this point in time, pure, undiluted shit), in the artless, funless, irredeemable shithole of emo, or in the putrid, pastel-shaded, oh-so-hip, oh-so-ironic, oh-aren't-we-so-devoid-of-any-will-to-challenge-or-experiment world of fucking indie. There's barely any real metalheads extant anymore out here, and goths are practically nonexistant. Because I like bands who have the temerity to do what they like, rather than conform to the safe, vomit-inducing pop-sensibilities formula or follow the current, gods-awful 'zeitgeist' I scarcely ever get to see bands, and then only bands I kinda like. No-one else comes south because everyone down here has absolutely shit musical taste. I have to cross the most expensive body of water in the world to even GET to something approaching a real goth night. After I've added in door money and bus fare, that's £17 just to HEAR an EBM song, not to mention an hour or more bus and train journey and having to leave by ten past eleven to get the last bus.
I fucking hate it. I just want to have some fucking fun, but everything is too shit. Awful little NME reading shitbags are having fun. Stomach-churning emo cuntbags are rocking out with their fucking scene. I've got fucking nothing.
greenMonkey:
Some of the most publicity that Sigur Ros has gotten was when it was announced Gwyneth Paltrow listened to their music while birthing her child Apple. This makes me sad.
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