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That is so sad. Pandora? Rhapsody? Radio? Really? You won't find (much) art there or in any of the bands that are playing amphitheaters. Find the bands who are
by tricky 18y ago
That is so sad. Pandora? Rhapsody? Radio? Really? You won't find (much) art there or in any of the bands that are playing amphitheaters. Find the bands who are living out of their van. Find the frontman who is so mentally ill he can barely function. Find the group of kids from Cardif who can ROCK a glockenspiel. Find the girl from so cal who uses cassette tapes live to build ambient loops while singing about her dead baby.
- mattmaroon 18y agoBoth Pandora and Rhapsody have tremendous variety and aren't limited to major label music at all. But still, just because there are a few schizophrenic glockenspielers out there doesn't mean the industry as a whole is doing well. As I pointed out originally, just like with the economy, the presence of some good stuff doesn't mean that the overall direction is a good one.
- unalone 18y agoBoth of those use algorithms to find similar music to what you like, no? I put up a list of bands from the past two years doing new things. I don't see how you can say a band like The Arcade Fire is retreading old ground: they're creating something genuinely new. There are plenty of refreshing bands doing new stuff. Fleet Foxes is named a lot to the point of monotony, but the publicity surrounding them doesn't change the fact that they are genuinely new and good.