no i know. i dont mean i wont like it. i like a lot of it. obscure meaning bands nobodys ever heard of. the only qualm about the whole indie movement is that websites like this seem so pretentious about it. as if they get some sort of brownie points by naming some band nobody has ever heard of. all of this indie culture seems very above everyone else and pretentious, as i said. i like a lot of the music, im just not an "indie kid," because if i was, i'd like no other music but the decemberists and death cab for cutie.
AMEN! See if i said this i'd get jumped for it...
I didn't mean to sound attacking before.. afterwards I kinda regretted sounding too defensive. I will say that the bands that Pitchfork has listed, are rising bands. (I'm not even a Pitchfork reader.. don't know why I'm talking right now.) And, just probably haven't been recognised yet worldwide are even just nationwide. But, it's not like these are all "lo-fi" groups with "unconventional" sounds. My Morning Jacket's parent label is Sony BMG, hardly a mom & pop label. Franz Ferdinand is a mult-million copy (1st album sold over 3.5 mil I think) selling band across the world (including the 1 million copies of the first album sold in the US and 200,000+ of the 2nd album so far) & has won the Mercury Prize & are distributed by major company Epic I believe. I won't go on. . I'm done. haha. I don't know where Pitchfork writes out of, but perhaps these bands are more well-known in their locale than "here." And, maybe they don't even realise that the bands on their list are not too recognisable. But, with college radio and Sirius and XM and internet radio stations, these bands are at least known to those worlds. And, I know at least some of them have played on the late night shows as well.
Well Franz Ferdinand and My Morning Jacket I recognize. It's not you being defensive, I'm just saying Pitchfork isn't my music review site of choice because they seem to be locked in to one type of music.
these are bands i have heard of on pitchforks top 50
Okkervil River
The Boy Least Likely To
Fiona Apple
Spoon
My Morning Jacket
Young Jeezy
The Game
Bloc Party
Franz Ferdinand
The Decemberists
Sleater-Kinney
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
New Pornographers
Wolf Parade
Cam'ron
LCD Soundsystem
Art Brut
Kanye West
Sufjan Stevens
Only 19 out of 50. I thought i knew a lot of music too. Guess not.
Fair enough. I actually don't favour any review website, 'cause any review website is gonna be biased on their personal tastes. I sometimes will check up on www.thisisfakediy.co.uk to read about music news, but that's about all. I discover most of my new listening usually through emusic.com (which is not a "review" website), a music download website that i subscribe to, because they seem to be more neutral than any other site I've come across.