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I am over the hill.

iconoplast

16:06 / 20.12.04

There's this New Music Magazine about the New York music scene.

And I have never heard of a single band on the cover. In fact, of all the bands they review, I've only heard of one.

And, I mean - when I got Plan B or Loose Lips, sure - I didn't expect to have heard of most of the stuff they talk about, because they're from Brighton. That was the fun of it all. But now - now I am the sad.

Please console me and tell me all the bands they talk about are worthless and shouldn't be known about anyway. Thank you.

Liger Null

16:25 / 20.12.04

I think the point is that they're NEW bands, and thus have to advertise. If it's any consolation I haven't heard of them either, but then again, I live in Kentucky.

Now that you have heard of these bands, why not go check out how they sound? Then you would be ahead of the game, and you could share your findings with the rest of us geezers

Ganesh

17:09 / 20.12.04

Welcome to my world, Iconoplast, the world I've inhabited for the last, ooh, decade or so.

You are indeed old.

*shrugs*

Which ain't so bad. Somehow, from the fourth decade, being au fait with just-born-this-second bands doesn't seem as important.

Not like gardening. Or soft furnishings. Or nice comfy slippers.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

18:34 / 20.12.04

I agree with Ganesh. I have more than enough music to listen to without going out and looking for it. If some happens to come my way, I invite it in, show it about and spend an afternoon with it, but I don't go out to smoky radio stations and unknown blogs looking for it.

Then again, I'm one of those people who has the big stack of books that need to be read, DVDs that need to be watched, and things to be checked out when I get time . Which sadly has been growing since I left college.

Ganesh

21:12 / 20.12.04

And, let's face it, there are sooo many more Sunday supplements to read...

Brigade du jour

13:23 / 21.12.04

If it makes you feel any better iconoplast, a friend asked me to help her with an online album covers quiz. Not only had I not heard of many of the albums (the majority of which were released this year) but I hadn't heard of a large number of the artists either. Sigh. Have a hug.

13:37 / 21.12.04

Don't worry. I don't think any of those bands actually exist. Even if they do, maybe a couple of dozen people have heard any of them.

Jack Fear

13:56 / 21.12.04

Um. At least one person from at least one of those bands posts occasionally to Barbelith, actually. Okay, very occasionally. But still.

iconoplast

14:28 / 21.12.04

Response from friend to whom I complained? "You had to have heard of the Caulfield Sisters, though, no?"

No.

So that magazine is starting to look like a New Years resolution to me.

(I like the attainable resolutions. Like "I will investigate more obscure music.")

Which band, by the way, posts here?

Jack Fear

14:43 / 21.12.04

One of the guys from The Song Corporation has posted here (admittedly, only a handful of times) as Eppy—the same name under which he writes the blog Clap Clap. He's a pretty quiet presence on the 'lith itself, but he's all over the reply boxes for Fluxblog and Flyboy's site, amongst others, so he's definitely in our orbit.

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