Most ‘revolutionary’ bands that douchebaggy music blogs+news sources+magazines cover have a life before and after the internet. Kind of like college rock bands around the year 2000. Bands like INTERPOL that were ‘good’ but then had to find a new life in an inauthentic altradio context. Or other bands kind of shriveled up and died after the internet made bands ‘release content+memes more frequently’ and some bands were unable to respond. If you think about AnCo, much of their ‘acclaim’ has come in the post-p4k era. Probably gaining a lot of steam back when Pitchfork anointment meant a little bit more to the ’standard pre-altbro music fan’ who still J.O.ed while reading p4k/there weren’t as many other sources that were ‘unearthing’ bands at the time. Now there are probably too many sources ‘unearthing’ shitty bands, so we are returning back to our Pitchfork + GorillaVsBear roots to prepare for the unknown year of 2k9.
I thought these were two choice quotes from a meandering (and illustrated) account of fostering a certain lifestyle and staying relevant in a post-Merriweather Post Pavillion World that reads like an Anthopology 403 midterm.
Is it weird that the same people who download john mayer and high school musical also are currently downloading an Animal Collective leak? Could I have seen this coming when my roommate fell asleep listening to Here Comes the Indian many nights in 2003? I mean, why would a banana grab another banana? These are the kinds of questions I don’t want to have to answer.
