I really enjoyed your post! I disagreed with that article as well. It smacked of being an old curmudgeon..yes, everyone influences everyone, it doesn't mean it isn't new..There are whole experiences that get interpreted and the filter is different if you are an 18 year old, emulating Gram Parsons, than a 40 year old..Critics lose their ears/and frankly art critics too, when they can only see their own experiences through their reflected age in new work.. While there isn't a Strokes/Yeah Yeah Yeahs moment happening,there is interesting things happening,it reminds me of the late 80's when many different movements of music were percolating.It's not a fallow time.I was a musician before I returned to painting,I was signed on Interscope, experienced the record industry in the 90's.While there was a lot of money in the industry then, it seemed so hard to make things happen if you weren't signed.By the late 90's payola was so entrenched in the radio/record store, it seemed unless you had billions, you couldn't make music...now that the whole industry blew apart and the advent of youtube,blogs,internet radio- I think bands are just starting to realize what they can do.Although I have an art career now in painting, I actually think that it is not a bad time to do my music again.It's become so wonderfully DIY, it is liberating.
While there isn't a Strokes/Yeah Yeah Yeahs moment happening,there is interesting things happening,it reminds me of the late 80's when many different movements of music were percolating.It's not a fallow time.I was a musician before I returned to painting,I was signed on Interscope, experienced the record industry in the 90's.While there was a lot of money in the industry then, it seemed so hard to make things happen if you weren't signed.By the late 90's payola was so entrenched in the radio/record store, it seemed unless you had billions, you couldn't make music...now that the whole industry blew apart and the advent of youtube,blogs,internet radio- I think bands are just starting to realize what they can do.Although I have an art career now in painting, I actually think that it is not a bad time to do my music again.It's become so wonderfully DIY, it is liberating.