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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
The Ill Recommendations: 6.14
For anyone looking for brutal, uncompromising, and more importantly, GOOD metal, check out Naegleria from Dudley, MA. Their latest album is now streaming on Reverbnation, and if you're curious, check it out:
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
The Ill Opinion #3: Internet Killed The Rock Star
Hard to imagine that way back in 2005, when MySpace began it's path of world domination, the music industry was a lot different back then. Adapting to the advent of ".99 a track" and the ability of people getting any song any time they wanted was a hard thing to swallow for the draconian system of labels and musicians.
Turn your history books to 2011, and take a look, or better yet, a listen to the modern radio today. Now, how many songs tend to have a similar sound, i.e, the type of sound that you would associate with the now-fallen social media website?
The answer: lots of them.
In the course of 6 years, if you can believe that, the music industry has adapted for the internet. Not just in business, but the demand for songs are even more in-tune with the World Wide Web. With the rise of MySpace, "starting a band" and "putting music out there" is now easy enough that in the course of 1 week, you can have the amount of traction that would take weeks, months, even years, to obtain before MySpace.
Now how does that equate into the title? Easier than you think.
With the chance that a hit can come out of anywhere, the special feeling of being a "rockstar" is now commonplace, as in, it's no longer shocking.
And with this, music in general has become, almost cheapened. What was a needle in a haystack is now commonplace. That's not to say, good music is dead and gone, far from it.
The point is, the game has changed, and now there's an ease, a fast way in, which is great, yet also, awful. When every Tom, Dick and Hank can get famous now, what's the point in trying?
In closing, I want you to consider this: remember how special you felt when you did something "incredible"? Imagine seeing everyone else do it. Not so special now, is it?
This was the Ill Opinion. Stay gold.
Turn your history books to 2011, and take a look, or better yet, a listen to the modern radio today. Now, how many songs tend to have a similar sound, i.e, the type of sound that you would associate with the now-fallen social media website?
The answer: lots of them.
In the course of 6 years, if you can believe that, the music industry has adapted for the internet. Not just in business, but the demand for songs are even more in-tune with the World Wide Web. With the rise of MySpace, "starting a band" and "putting music out there" is now easy enough that in the course of 1 week, you can have the amount of traction that would take weeks, months, even years, to obtain before MySpace.
Now how does that equate into the title? Easier than you think.
With the chance that a hit can come out of anywhere, the special feeling of being a "rockstar" is now commonplace, as in, it's no longer shocking.
And with this, music in general has become, almost cheapened. What was a needle in a haystack is now commonplace. That's not to say, good music is dead and gone, far from it.
The point is, the game has changed, and now there's an ease, a fast way in, which is great, yet also, awful. When every Tom, Dick and Hank can get famous now, what's the point in trying?
In closing, I want you to consider this: remember how special you felt when you did something "incredible"? Imagine seeing everyone else do it. Not so special now, is it?
This was the Ill Opinion. Stay gold.
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