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The Next Big Thing
SeanBateman:
So, Indie Rock is dying out. It is far too popular at this point for any of "the cool kids" to keep listening to it. So, I am wondering, where is music gonna go? What's the next thing that people who know more about music than anyone else are going to be listening to?
I kind of expect it to be either some form of electronica, or a more intense focus on Postrock. However, I've also recently been forced to notice an even greater appreciation for Psychedelia and other weird ass shit. What's the shape of things to come, guys?
SeanBateman:
You can totally imagine what that is like! You are not completely ignorant of pop culture and pretending you are does not make you cool!
SeanBateman:
Plus dude you are like 23 stop acting like the Elder Statesman of Indie.
Jackie Blue:
I would argue that "people who know more about music than anyone else" always have, and always will, listen to pretty much everything coming down the pike, as long as it's good.
Neo-shoegaze/drone seems to be the emergent trend, though. I have found doznes of bands on last.fm who have recently formed and take cues directly from Spacemen 3 and MBV. Almost all of them are excellent.
Also, my current favorite band is M83, which I think is a band that has indicated how well traditional rock instrumentation can blend with new-age sentiment and electronic studio trickery. I'll be very interested to see what he/they do on the new album.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 30 Dec 2007, 10:45 ---It seems in North America, where a lot of our forumites live and study, folks actually know other folks who like the same music they do. This doesn't happen in the UK.
--- End quote ---
It doesn't happen to you in the UK. It does for a lot of other people, otherwise there would be no bands. About half of my friends I made through music, the other half politics and then a smattering of people who I've met at university.
As for the next big thing, it's hard to say. The most-hyped music in the UK at the moment is undoubtedly dubstep (and deservedly so I might add) but I can't see that translating to a truly mass audience without changing so much it becomes something else, much like the more popular a grime artist gets the more they make music which sounds almost indistinguishable from hip-hop, and the consensus seems to be that the majors won't be handing out more record deals to artists in that genre any time soon so I can't see that blowing up either.
Skiffle revival?
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