Wednesday, May 1, 2019
no, listen.
i don't understand why anybody who is not a musician (or maybe a poet) would listen to rock music in 2019. the larger social decline of the guitar should be interpreted as a bottleneck in the genre. that doesn't mean you need to sound like steve vai, and i'd actually rather you didn't. but, so long as the instrument exists, it is going to maintain an audience around it...
the whole "rock music will never die" thing is bullshit. it's been on life support for decades. but, what the death of rock music should mean is the death of boring rock music - catchy rock music, popular rock music. and, to that, we should all sing "good riddance".
let the thugs listen to hip-hop and the idiots listen to techno and the teenage girls listen to pop. fine. great. it opens up the space at the rock bar for more guitar music, even if the rock bar shrinks in size. and, that's fine, if it does.
what that means is that you need to play, or go home.
there's no audience for pop rock anymore, regardless of how you're doing it; the audience that remains is focused on lyrical prowess and instrumental virtuosity and has a lot of overlap with prog and jazz.
i don't understand why anybody who is not a musician (or maybe a poet) would listen to rock music in 2019. the larger social decline of the guitar should be interpreted as a bottleneck in the genre. that doesn't mean you need to sound like steve vai, and i'd actually rather you didn't. but, so long as the instrument exists, it is going to maintain an audience around it...
the whole "rock music will never die" thing is bullshit. it's been on life support for decades. but, what the death of rock music should mean is the death of boring rock music - catchy rock music, popular rock music. and, to that, we should all sing "good riddance".
let the thugs listen to hip-hop and the idiots listen to techno and the teenage girls listen to pop. fine. great. it opens up the space at the rock bar for more guitar music, even if the rock bar shrinks in size. and, that's fine, if it does.
what that means is that you need to play, or go home.
there's no audience for pop rock anymore, regardless of how you're doing it; the audience that remains is focused on lyrical prowess and instrumental virtuosity and has a lot of overlap with prog and jazz.
i just want to make a general point.
when it comes to music, it's been clear for a long time that the millennial generation does not have anything original to offer. it's the retro generation; they pride themselves on being derivative. and, contrary to the public perception, you can pull out how inherently conservative they are in their obsession with the past.
throughout the 00s, it was just depressing to be stuck on the edge of the most musically boring and most generally uncreative generation in eons. after the year 2010, there started to be some evidence that the next generation may be a little bit more artistically inclined, if they can find a way out of the shadow of the demographic boom. but, it never fully materialized.
it may be a little bit early still. but, i fully expect to find far more creative and challenging music from the post-millennial generation, and an eventual historical clarification of what we all intuitively know: millennials are fucking boring.
when it comes to music, it's been clear for a long time that the millennial generation does not have anything original to offer. it's the retro generation; they pride themselves on being derivative. and, contrary to the public perception, you can pull out how inherently conservative they are in their obsession with the past.
throughout the 00s, it was just depressing to be stuck on the edge of the most musically boring and most generally uncreative generation in eons. after the year 2010, there started to be some evidence that the next generation may be a little bit more artistically inclined, if they can find a way out of the shadow of the demographic boom. but, it never fully materialized.
it may be a little bit early still. but, i fully expect to find far more creative and challenging music from the post-millennial generation, and an eventual historical clarification of what we all intuitively know: millennials are fucking boring.
there's some potential here, but it needs to break itself outside the box.
https://dizzyspellz.bandcamp.com/
https://dizzyspellz.bandcamp.com/
the second entry in the music journal series, which is the whole month of august, 2013 and is 220 pages long. i am not going to summarize the story, but it is available on the web over here: musicofjessicamurray.blogspot.com/2013/08/.
this is a compilation of written correspondences that occurred around me over august, 2013. it includes facebook posts, messenger chats and emails with friends and family members, in an attempt to tell the story of the move from ottawa to windsor. the contents of this download are the dummy track, a word doc file and a pdf file, both written in a more readable, chronological ordering. i've also added the respective files for my other three blogs, for general interest, as well as 17 separate txt documents (essays, notes and scripts) that are referenced in the journal.
the events documented in this journal occurred in august, 2013 and were compiled into a narrative in several stages over the years 2014-2019. journal completed on april 30, 2019. released and finalized in doc and pdf format on may 1, 2019. doc0813.
this is a compilation of written correspondences that occurred around me over august, 2013. it includes facebook posts, messenger chats and emails with friends and family members, in an attempt to tell the story of the move from ottawa to windsor. the contents of this download are the dummy track, a word doc file and a pdf file, both written in a more readable, chronological ordering. i've also added the respective files for my other three blogs, for general interest, as well as 17 separate txt documents (essays, notes and scripts) that are referenced in the journal.
the events documented in this journal occurred in august, 2013 and were compiled into a narrative in several stages over the years 2014-2019. journal completed on april 30, 2019. released and finalized in doc and pdf format on may 1, 2019. doc0813.
credits
released September 1, 2013
j - editing, participant
esa - participant
mom - participant
sister - participant
nana - participant
step-mother - participant
the surviving uncle - participant
d - participant
jeff - participant
rli - participant
ms. jeffreys - participant
mackaye - participant
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/08-2013-music-journal
j - editing, participant
esa - participant
mom - participant
sister - participant
nana - participant
step-mother - participant
the surviving uncle - participant
d - participant
jeff - participant
rli - participant
ms. jeffreys - participant
mackaye - participant
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/08-2013-music-journal
this is silly fluff, but it's the kind of silly fluff i can enjoy in an opening band, because it has a little bit of quirk. the fluff:quirk ratio needs to be set properly in order for it to work, and it's pretty good here, if not fully anthropic.
there is a universe out there where this is a bit more abstract. alas.
also, i bet bbqed pope would be delicious, if presented with a side of funny hat kebob.
https://bbqpope.bandcamp.com/album/bbq-pope-lp
there is a universe out there where this is a bit more abstract. alas.
also, i bet bbqed pope would be delicious, if presented with a side of funny hat kebob.
https://bbqpope.bandcamp.com/album/bbq-pope-lp
somebody will tell me i'm missing the point, but she must tone the vocal hysterics down a little. that's not optional. we can talk about whether there's some potential here after she chills out a little.
it's objectively too much.
https://hextoronto.bandcamp.com/
it's objectively too much.
https://hextoronto.bandcamp.com/
this is a good start, but where's the virtuoso guitar work?
that's supposed to be what this is about. isn't it?
https://theslowdrags.bandcamp.com/
that's supposed to be what this is about. isn't it?
https://theslowdrags.bandcamp.com/
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