There are no conclusions here.

Yesterday I did something I haven't done in a while--I went out to see a concert for bands that I had never heard before. I feel like this recalls back to ye olden days before MP3s and even before CDs--when bands actually had to tour to get their fanbase established. It seems strange to me now that people would go through so much effort to find out when tours were, when today the music scene is just an internet race to see who Panicked at the Disco first.

Indie rock has become much more accessible, which I think is great--but now Indie has become a genre in and of itself--the music all begins to start the same, despite the fact that the term "indie" technically means that it is music produced on an independent label (that most likely would allow more creative rein). So many bands now spring up, knowing that they can eliminate the middleman and build a fanbase online without having to hire someone with the connections to book shows right away, I think it sort of dilutes the pool of talent.

Some would argue that this is the "mass of mediocrity" effect of the internet, but it actually takes a lot more now for a band to become popular and be lucrative. Like anything else on the internet, only things that are particularly noteworthy or interesting (not necessarily for lofty artistic reasons) catch the public eye.



I thought it was interesting that for each of the bands that played, the first search result on Google was their Myspace music page. I kind of forgot it existed