whether you like this or not - and i think it's mind-numbingly stupid - the question of whether it ought to qualify for an artist grant or not can't be up for serious debate. it's objectively not very artistic; it's quite clearly designed to sell units on the radio by dumbing itself down to the lowest common denominator.
but, i mean, this isn't news. whatever used to exist of the grants system in this country has been long replaced by what is essentially a form of corporate welfare for the music industry. they may throw some money at things they consider to be legacy projects, like an attempt to prevent native american music from completely disappearing, and that has it's own value for what it is. but, what the system really does is operate as a research department for the major labels.
i'd rather see this kind of money go towards just about anything else, and let emi or sony or whatever fund this kind of trash on it's own. but, whatever.
i wouldn't have even mentioned this, otherwise; there's nothing worth mentioning about it.
https://partnerband.bandcamp.com/
Monday, May 6, 2019
it's just like inner speaker period tame impala...
....except, totally boring.
i think you can put off the question as to whether it's actually any good or not, because i could imagine it sort of working as background music in an after hours bar. so, it's detailed enough that it isn't totally useless. but, as an active listening experience, i think i'd end up pretty bored pretty fast.
https://vinylwilliams.bandcamp.com/
....except, totally boring.
i think you can put off the question as to whether it's actually any good or not, because i could imagine it sort of working as background music in an after hours bar. so, it's detailed enough that it isn't totally useless. but, as an active listening experience, i think i'd end up pretty bored pretty fast.
https://vinylwilliams.bandcamp.com/
i'm now caught up to the end of last night. if i skipped your band, it's because i think you suck. sorry.
i'm going to want to push forward at least a few more weeks and ideally until i can find a show to hit until i start writing. right now, i'm looking at either touche amore in june or screaming females in july, bands i've seen repeatedly. i'd like to maybe hit something i haven't seen before. and sooner.
i'm going to want to push forward at least a few more weeks and ideally until i can find a show to hit until i start writing. right now, i'm looking at either touche amore in june or screaming females in july, bands i've seen repeatedly. i'd like to maybe hit something i haven't seen before. and sooner.
almost there. this was friday night in toronto.
...and, it seems entirely pointless, but probably worth a couple of beers.
https://thecosmicrange.bandcamp.com/
...and, it seems entirely pointless, but probably worth a couple of beers.
https://thecosmicrange.bandcamp.com/
this was the friday that just passed, in detroit, so i'm almost caught up. and, it's more up my alley, certainly - enough that i may have gone, if the situation were more ideal.
but, there's a kind of constant with the material in that it doesn't really go anywhere, and it kind of sputters around in circles. there's all kinds of buzzwords being thrown around on the bandcamp site, but the term you usually see attached to music of this sort is "post-rock", a term that i will acknowledge has been shunned partly due to it's association with bland repetition. the thing is that this kind of perpetuates the stereotype rather well. something you'll notice listening to this is that every time it seems like they're about to break it open, it just falls back into the repetition of itself.
i'm consequently reminded of an 00s acts called warpaint that showed up right at the bottom of the last cycle, and seemed to turn a lot of heads before kind of evaporating. they were exciting in the way that made sense to people at the time, namely they were the perfect aesthetic, the perfect fashion choice - an accessory, if you will. but, their actual songs were not very well constructed, and they couldn't hold an audience as a result of it. the sudden realization that a band of this type must write actually interesting music that has some actual depth beyond the aesthetic in order to keep an audience seems to have taken a lot of people by surprise, including the band. you don't get much of a crossover into pop culture with something like this, and you can't market it like it's a pop band.
they were a turning point, though. the industry kind of hit rock bottom with warpaint, before it corrected itself.
don't get me wrong: with enough marijuana in my system, the aesthetic would have dominated, and i would have enjoyed the show. but, it's not actually very interesting beyond the surface atmospheric, which wears off before the record finishes.
if we're stuck on this perpetual wheel, let's at least hope we're bottoming out.
https://mintfieldil.bandcamp.com/
but, there's a kind of constant with the material in that it doesn't really go anywhere, and it kind of sputters around in circles. there's all kinds of buzzwords being thrown around on the bandcamp site, but the term you usually see attached to music of this sort is "post-rock", a term that i will acknowledge has been shunned partly due to it's association with bland repetition. the thing is that this kind of perpetuates the stereotype rather well. something you'll notice listening to this is that every time it seems like they're about to break it open, it just falls back into the repetition of itself.
i'm consequently reminded of an 00s acts called warpaint that showed up right at the bottom of the last cycle, and seemed to turn a lot of heads before kind of evaporating. they were exciting in the way that made sense to people at the time, namely they were the perfect aesthetic, the perfect fashion choice - an accessory, if you will. but, their actual songs were not very well constructed, and they couldn't hold an audience as a result of it. the sudden realization that a band of this type must write actually interesting music that has some actual depth beyond the aesthetic in order to keep an audience seems to have taken a lot of people by surprise, including the band. you don't get much of a crossover into pop culture with something like this, and you can't market it like it's a pop band.
they were a turning point, though. the industry kind of hit rock bottom with warpaint, before it corrected itself.
don't get me wrong: with enough marijuana in my system, the aesthetic would have dominated, and i would have enjoyed the show. but, it's not actually very interesting beyond the surface atmospheric, which wears off before the record finishes.
if we're stuck on this perpetual wheel, let's at least hope we're bottoming out.
https://mintfieldil.bandcamp.com/
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