Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Your new breakthrough artists
I didn't get much farther than Yahoo! after posting this last bit on The Darkness to learn that they're now breakthrough artists who should have their own promo page with clips and interviews.
Now don't get me wrong; my love for the band should be apparent. But sometimes, when a band hits it big, I get a little sad. I felt the same way when I heard three of the songs from Damien Rice's debut O on the radio. It's the feeling of something you cherish being given to everyone, even most likely people who can't appreciate it for what it is, like when you find out everyone knows of something you had loved keeping a secret.
This has a lot to do with feeling that my roots as a music lover are in the independent scene. Goes to show, I suppose, that the independent music scene is both a marketing style and a way of life, or a mindset. I buy good music, but what's to say I'm less deserving of criticism for turning my nose up at popular music than is the teenager is who never gets his ears out of the Top 40?
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