"Thomas D. Cox, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/24/2008 10:34:06 AM:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:27 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you talking about staying within the bounds of dance music though? > > There's amazing folk stuff going on - great music from all aroundthe world > > - some very good/strong independent song writers - fantastic classical > > music > > i mean all music. i listen to lots of satellite radio, i listen to > lots of random things that discover in all sorts of places. i find > that about one new artist out of every few hundred i hear regardless > of genre touches me enough that i care about their music. one of the > last acoustic artists i heard that i liked was that Jose Gonzales guy > whom i heard on satellite only to discover that his music was released > on Peacefrog of all labels. Jose Gonzales is just scraping the surface of acoustic music You aren't going to hear a lot of the DIY labels on ANY radio that's where so much of it is at now > > Of course there's tons of nonsense but there always has been. Now with the > > way artists don't have to rely on record label $$ and the major label > > machine to get their music out you can find some really great music > > I'm constantly finding new great stuff via myspace - find one good artist > > and follow their links. > > you've found a good artist on myspace?!?!?! maybe our standards are > different. i would rather listen to something i know i like than > something that just isn't top notch. myspace is such a waste of time > for me musically. yeah, just got to find the right artists and peruse their "friends" list > > it takes effort to find it all > > i put out tons of effort and i still get nothing. i definitely have a > much higher rate of return on older music. i could just be a hater > though, i've been accused of that in the past. Not so much of a hater - "fixed" is a better description maybe? That's not meant as a putdown either Slagging off myspace completely because there's a major amount of garbage on there is not ever going into a record store because there's a lot of crappy CD shops you have to forget about the bad, make like a duck and let that water slide off your back MEK
