Comments on: Is Music Dying, Dead or Am I Just Out of Touch http://www.dickness.com/2009/04/22/is-music-dying-dead-or-am-i-just-out-of-touch/ Spreading All Across the Land Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:49:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: ryan_kemp http://www.dickness.com/2009/04/22/is-music-dying-dead-or-am-i-just-out-of-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-75 ryan_kemp Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:45:18 +0000 http://www.dickness.com/2009/04/22/is-music-dying-dead-or-am-i-just-out-of-touch/#comment-75 The ways we consume music has dramatically changed, and I think music has changed in relation to that process. Fifteen years ago, the way a motley foursome got their music "heard" was to be on a label with a strong arm of distribution, and then deal with lawyers and people in suits who might try and shape that particular product. Now, any douche with a laptop has a shot at some ephemeral myspace hit (see: uh, any celebrity DJ made famous in the last five years).<br><br>But "good" music has always existed outside of the consumer spectacle, it's just that you have to search it out. It's probably the wildest thing in the world for a band to create an actual album right now. I could make some suggestions, but pitchfork probably has it covered. And nobody really has the attention span for albums anymore, anyway. The ways we consume music has dramatically changed, and I think music has changed in relation to that process. Fifteen years ago, the way a motley foursome got their music “heard” was to be on a label with a strong arm of distribution, and then deal with lawyers and people in suits who might try and shape that particular product. Now, any douche with a laptop has a shot at some ephemeral myspace hit (see: uh, any celebrity DJ made famous in the last five years).

But “good” music has always existed outside of the consumer spectacle, it's just that you have to search it out. It's probably the wildest thing in the world for a band to create an actual album right now. I could make some suggestions, but pitchfork probably has it covered. And nobody really has the attention span for albums anymore, anyway.

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