July 12, 2009

Man awakens from music coma


After some years, not sure exactly how many, I'm awake. Awake and somewhat confused. You see, for years, more than I'd like to admit, I locked myself away from the current music landscape. By current, I mean the landscape of the living musicians. For some time, I locked myself in the jail of dead oldies-but-goodies. And while I still love, love a lot of that music, I realized I was stunting my music collection. There is good music out there, by artists not yet appearing on any "all time lists". Whether or not this music will ultimately survive I don't know. But I just got tired of always listening to music by artists no longer touring, no longer adding salient perspective. Sure, the classics will continue to be inherently relevant, and I'll never stop listening to them, but there is something almost intangibly appealing about listening to a band that is out there now, trying to be heard. And in the end, a mix of old and new is best.I can't pinpoint which song or group bent the bars back, but new (to me) groups I've been listening to lately and digging are:

1) THE DODOS (though I'm a little upset about the Bud Light Lime commercial)

"Park Song" from Visiter




2) MATT AND KIM

"Cutdown" from Grand




3) THE THERMALS

"How We Fade" from Now We Can See




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