Some are common names to many of us who have been paying attention and listening over the years (Radiohead, Flaming Lips, etc.) while others are less well known or still emerging (Tank & The Bangas, Amber Martin, Delvon Lamarr, Joey Quinones, etc.). Here is the link to that playlist I made for that friend ( click here) up on Spotify featuring all sorts of artists that I know my friend wasn’t remotely familiar with but which I thought he might enjoy. So to my grumpy friend, there IS some great new music being made but - in the words of The Grateful Dead - “you just gotta poke around.” I report on new music I like here Audiophile Review whenever I can - it’s something that I really am quite passionate about. Heck, I’m just now digging in deeper into Amy Winehouse’s catalog beyond her big hit album (which I had on CD) thanks to a friend who gave me a couple of her albums for my birthday (Thanks Ron! Review to come!).
As one of my friends says “It’s a Lotta Lotta!” and indeed it is hard to keep track of everything. I am always sharing new artist links with friends to check out. How about a group called Poolside which has done a pretty groovy cover of The Grateful Dead’s “Shakedown Street”? There in the store I finally heard a Bill Bragg song I liked called “Valentine Day Is Over.” A Soft Boys track came on which made me realize I need to pick up some of their recordings (don’t hate me but I’ve never really connected with Robyn Hitchcock’s music, though I do respect his work). I heard a good newer Paul Weller song called “Going My Way” and discovered that Meyer Hawthorne had curiously covered ELO’s “Mr. On recent trips to Amoeba Music I’ve actively used my Shazam app to take note of a bunch of interesting sounding artists and songs I heard played in the store such as “Chrome Temple” from a band called Apprentice Destroyer and Kool & Together’s “Hey Now Baby.” There is an early ‘70s psych folk group I just learned about called Comus which I’d never ever heard of before and which I plan to check out in greater depth soon. Counter to John Lennon’s dream encouraging listeners to open their minds, these types of people seem to have stopped relaxing, giving up on floating downstream. Everything he “heard” got lumped into one huge bucket he referred to with disdain as “hip-hop and rap” - this is a common and annoying story I hear from some older folks who have quite remarkably shut off their minds. In some ways I suspect my musically grumpy friend didn’t really want to look…įrom this person’s perspective, jazz was dead… classical was dead… and rock music was most certainly dead.
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However, he didn’t know where to start nor how to look for things that are new or different. Sure the person was using Spotify as his main music source so he had a universe of music at his fingertips.
As I was listening to him, I realized this person had become quite isolated from the modern-day realities of music discovery. I was talking to an old friend recently who was lamenting the downfall of popular music as we know it. SHARES Twitter 53 Facebook Email Print LinkedIn Pinterest SMS WhatsApp
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