Up it's own arse, if it's not careful...
Despite the industry finding ever more methods of manufacturing their own cash-cows, the rebels and the real music will always be out there. I think we will be in for another "wave" sometime soon.
So until then, there is a shitload of music to be discovered. In the last couple of years I have discovered post-rock, jazz, string quartets, African Soukouss, the Asian underground, a variety of North African traditional music, doing some re-discovering of punk, and buying a ton of other stuff that I liked anyway.
I'm having withdrawal symptoms - there's nothing in the post, on it's way to me. Mind you the Parliament / Funkadelic show from Dallas in '76 that I downloaded last night is sounding pretty good and is making me want to buy something from down that way..
Despite the industry finding ever more methods of manufacturing their own cash-cows, the rebels and the real music will always be out there. I think we will be in for another "wave" sometime soon.
So until then, there is a shitload of music to be discovered. In the last couple of years I have discovered post-rock, jazz, string quartets, African Soukouss, the Asian underground, a variety of North African traditional music, doing some re-discovering of punk, and buying a ton of other stuff that I liked anyway.
I'm having withdrawal symptoms - there's nothing in the post, on it's way to me. Mind you the Parliament / Funkadelic show from Dallas in '76 that I downloaded last night is sounding pretty good and is making me want to buy something from down that way..