Jon - interesting post but you don't have to justify what you like to anyone, least of all me. I wrote on my KEXP post this week that I think being a critic is more about explaining why you like the wrong bands than blindly following the right ones. That is what makes us music fans and writers in the first place.
Moreover, there are tons of buzz bands that I love. "I'm Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You" by the Black Kids is one of the highest played songs on my iPod and I've been really enjoying Vampire Weekend lately and listen to Justice and the Arctic Monkeys quite a bit as well. When I started going to shows and listening to "indie rock" (I still don't know what that term means), the hot-shit buzz band was the Strokes and I still love them to this day. I have a blog post coming up about Annie, who I first heard about from reading P4k a few years ago. I could go on and on...
Jon, I don't have any ideal for what music should be or what people should listen to. I listen to what I like because I enjoy it and I hope everyone else does the same thing. Please stop worrying about indie cred or whatever and listen to music because you enjoy it. You'll have more fun and it will make you a better writer.
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ChrisB said on May 5, 2008:
Jon - interesting post but you don't have to justify what you like to anyone, least of all me. I wrote on my KEXP post this week that I think being a critic is more about explaining why you like the wrong bands than blindly following the right ones. That is what makes us music fans and writers in the first place.
Moreover, there are tons of buzz bands that I love. "I'm Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You" by the Black Kids is one of the highest played songs on my iPod and I've been really enjoying Vampire Weekend lately and listen to Justice and the Arctic Monkeys quite a bit as well. When I started going to shows and listening to "indie rock" (I still don't know what that term means), the hot-shit buzz band was the Strokes and I still love them to this day. I have a blog post coming up about Annie, who I first heard about from reading P4k a few years ago. I could go on and on...
Jon, I don't have any ideal for what music should be or what people should listen to. I listen to what I like because I enjoy it and I hope everyone else does the same thing. Please stop worrying about indie cred or whatever and listen to music because you enjoy it. You'll have more fun and it will make you a better writer.