@@ I found a list of music blogger voted top 5 music blogs of 2010 over here at recommender.net. I know it’s 2012, but here they are:
1. Sunset in the Rearview
2. Pigeons and Planes
3. One Thirty BPM
4. Gorilla vs. Bear tied with Mr. Toad
5. Nialler 9
Not to point out the obvious, but these are all indie music blogs. My feeling is that indie music rules the day not because this is a golden age for indie music, but rather because it’s the best organized and networked genre by a mile.
@@ For example check out this indie hip hop tune Ima Read by Zebra Katz over here at Gorilla Vs. Bear. Wow, that’s awful. Weak, self-referential shit.
@@The only other genre as well organized or even more organized than indie music is heavy metal. Out of necessity as all the shiny happy people can’t stand heavy metal, but you have to give props to the musicians, fans, and everybody in between. They are passionate and organized, and the folks who run that part of the music business know how to take care of their fans and keep them involved.
Over here at Aversion Online you can check out Sweden’s Morito Ergo Sum “Moonchild”.
@@ As an example of a genre that is poorly organized let’s talk about jazz. Over here at Free Jazz Stef, which is a great free jazz blog out of Belgium you can read about Jason Adasiewicz. His 2010 record Sun Rooms (out on Delmark) is up on Spotify and I could not find any place for you to check out his 2011 record Spacer.
@@ I tried to listen to Halon Kornstad’s solo jazz recording Symphonies in My Head from 2011 on Spotify but it is not available in the United States. Fuckin’ A, I say. I checked out his 2008 recording Elise and it could have used a dollop of musical adventurousness for me, but I like the out roughneck music myself. Symphonies in My Head might be completely different, but fuckin’ a, I can’t hear it. I hate that shit, btw.
@@ On I go to Oneohtrix Point Never and their 2011 record Replica. It’s a ambient, synthetic-y, a touch or New Age and no beats. A lot of big cloudy synth patches and beeps/blurps and some detached floating voices. I dug the third tune ‘Sleep Dealer’ but I was not jumping up and down.
@@ On to Mika Vanio‘s 2011 record Life (it eats you up) out on Editions Mego. Very sparse, a lot of waves of metallic threedling. Doesn’t sound appealing, but at about 7 minutes in on the first track it gets into this super dark clashing metallic waves and these big thunderous one off beats.
That’s it for today.
