@@ Today’s music business spiel from the Lefsetz letter:
Excerpt:
Is it because no one likes this music?
No, it’s because of radio consolidation. And the major labels only sign what’s on the radio, that’s where the most money is, and the public is the worse for it, musical diversity is out the window.
Comment:
My add on to this comment is that this is not something just happening with major labels. The larger indie labels often traffic in music that clearly used to be the domain of major labels before they destroyed themselves, and the diversity of independent music has greatly narrowed.
As an example, a lot of this 1980′s recycled New Wave is the musical equivalent of baby food designed to be spoon fed to adults infantilizing themselves.
@@ You can check out Deportees ‘A Heart Like Yours at a time Like this’ over here at Sunset In the Rear View. This is the kind of 3-ply softness that make white folks look so disconnected from the reality of the world. The choir like angelic ah ahs, the ringing bell like guitars, the complete lack of swing. In a word, shit.
@@ So I didn’t want to be such a hardass on all you indie hipsters out there so I thought I would give Sunset in the Rear View another shot with Calvin Flowers’ Lady Grayson over here. It’s a nice acoustic vibe, but it wears thin and doesn’t go anywhere.
@@ Over at Cosmic Hearse there’s a post on Black Uniforms, a punk/speed metal thrash group out of Sweden from the late 1980′s. If you have less than two minutes you can check them out, I dug it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfvzJmyRNow&feature=related
I couldn’t paste the video into this, I’m not very bright.
@@ When you open up Spotify this morning, they recommend a remix of Australian indie electronic outfit Cut Copy. It’s pretty mindless dance music, so if that’s your thing have at it.
@@ Let’s try one more from Spotify, Sleeper Agent’s Get Burned single. It’s Strokes like, but poppier and pretty mainstream. Lest I be accused of snobbery, this is pretty good music for cubicle dwellers out there, not that I have many of those sorts of readers.
@@ So the Guardian really thinks Lana Del Rey’s new record is very good over here. Except they think she’s lyrically weak.
@@ Holy fuck, there’s an unreleased Abba demo on its way. I can’t wait and you can read about it here.
@@ Over here at Slowcoustic you can check out some verbiage for the new record Old Fashioned by John Stasz on Yer Bird Records. It’s old-timey as you would imagine. I dug it without being head over heels and you can listen here as well:
@@ Check out this LIly’s tune from 1992. I like good shoegaze, but bad shoegaze annoys me. I like this shoegaze. If you want to read why they like this record go here to If I Die Tomorrow.
When I listened to this Youtube video I could almost imagine how good it might sound on a compact disc and that’s not a good sign.
Restaurant food is supposed to taste good, and music is supposed to sound good. Period.
