… With a little help from my friends
We’re all fans of at least one group. A group that devours our souls like 3am, 24-hour-diner pancakes. Music is there for us at the right times, the hard times, the happy times. Sometimes it’s shoved down our throats and turned into pep rally chants that destroy the meaning of a once sacred song. Or sometimes they are sold back to us in Cadillac commercials. Sometimes you get to hear the song sung live either by the band themselves or a drunk friend on 2x1 karaoke nights. My problem is that I could never just love one group. I’ve met them all. The Metallica fans, the Britney clergy, the Tool creeps, “Radiohead is god” believers, the hippy Phish heads… I’m always amazed when I meet someone who can only listen to one band’s catalog and never get bored. I never could fit there. The thing is I mixed in with all of them. Many who know me, know that I have my phases… my Iron Maiden phase, my Nsync phase, my AFI phase. Well to their surprise my phases overlap. I could never pin down on one group and in this age of short attention spans…
Honduran writer Augusto Monterroso once wrote “Cuándo despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí.” The dinosaur for me is a music industry hellbent on perpetuating the old ways of earning profits and marketing the music they think will sell, regardless of quality. We can change that if everyone does his or her part. So that’s why I’m here. I want to hear your music. I want to see your band. I want to chat with your band. I want to dedicate a space to discuss your music, attach links and build a community to promote new music outside of the “music” publicity world. So, feel free to send me a link to your band’s media page and give me some homework. I will upload a review and a link so that more people can find your music. Let me know about upcoming shows or music videos. The era of DIY has never been easier. All we need is a little help from each other and hopefully when we wake up tomorrow the dinosaur will finally be gone.
Bienvenid@s
