![]() ![]() What's going on? Music today is an overmarketed, autotuned, asexual bunch of skinny jeans raised on Barney and American Idol. The spirit world must be happy with us - here's the latest Sigur Rós record it's not out for another two weeks. The more obscure your musical references, the more you'd have people believe in your shamanic powers. There was a time when it was important to know who was who it was like having a cool badge. And the reality is I couldn't name any of the bands at the Grammys, and I know only a very small handful of bands named in these very pages. Who would I become if I wasn't aware of Youth Lagoon or Vampire Weekend? Or was that Youth Weekend at Vampire Lagoon? I, like any healthy teenager, am partial to music that makes me want to vandalize your home, but for some damn reason I find the stuff that's popular right now makes me lactate. ![]() ![]() And it could be the feeling was mutual, because that's the very day I started to confront my musical mortality, to face the death of my own personal cool. I just wasn't feeling it anymore and thought it best we went our separate ways. Part of the Songs Every Man Should Listen To, hosted by the beautiful Nina Agdal. Published in the May 2013 issue, on sale any day now ![]()
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