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You really should edit "current music" to "current mainstream music" There are fantastic things going on all over, people really trying to reach out & put abou
by Raffers 7y ago
You really should edit "current music" to "current mainstream music"
There are fantastic things going on all over, people really trying to reach out & put about their own little niche scenes all over the place. In fact I had a psych band from Japan stay at mine just the other week, as they were trying to keep the costs down.
It really isn't hard to find these local scenes or the smaller more intement gigs with sites like bandcamp.
- UweSchmidt 7y agoThe problem that I'm describing is affecing all music: performers don't get to try out their songs in a 'natural' setting nearly as often as they used to. Music is done in the basement or in the practice room, not in the living room. Music is performed in niche scenes, not bars or dance venues with the general public attending. I briefly googled 'psych band from japan' and saw a certain kind of photography: jaded, melancholic people on artsy album covers. The kind that I see on many event posters or in music magazines. Not terrible, but showing how disconnected music is from the real world, living in art-space. By all means I'm not saying it's bad, and I might give it a listen. Still, I'm going to polish up my guitar chords and maybe compose a song for my little neighbor. The way it's been done throughout human history.