No shit:

https://www.huffingtonpos...mg00000009

Real music for real musicians.

The Mafia helped stop the racism in Vegas? wow. You never knew that.

Yeah good luck with that Quincy, songs are not in fashion anymore.

lastdecember said:

Yeah good luck with that Quincy, songs are not in fashion anymore.

But good ones are being made if we know where to look!

namepeace said:

lastdecember said:

Yeah good luck with that Quincy, songs are not in fashion anymore.

But good ones are being made if we know where to look!

Yeah but lets not kid ourselves that there is a goldmine of talent out there and greatness, there is some and a lot get missed

Father John Misty for one.

lastdecember said:

namepeace said:

But good ones are being made if we know where to look!

Yeah but lets not kid ourselves that there is a goldmine of talent out there and greatness, there is some and a lot get missed

That could be true, though the millenials may disagree, but I think there's enough.

In 2018, with the world at our fingertips and a wealth of ways to find what we're looking for, including online communities like this one, if music lovers miss great music, it's OUR fault.

New(ish) artists that are making great music (and the older ones, for that matter) need our support to continue, and so many of them don't (or no longer) have promotional machines behind them.

2freaky4church1 said:

Father John Misty for one.

Eh, gimme a call when he sings a song that isn't buried under 400 layers of irony.

haha.

namepeace said:

lastdecember said:

Yeah but lets not kid ourselves that there is a goldmine of talent out there and greatness, there is some and a lot get missed

That could be true, though the millenials may disagree, but I think there's enough.

In 2018, with the world at our fingertips and a wealth of ways to find what we're looking for, including online communities like this one, if music lovers miss great music, it's OUR fault.

New(ish) artists that are making great music (and the older ones, for that matter) need our support to continue, and so many of them don't (or no longer) have promotional machines behind them.

The world at our fingertips but the majority are still sharing and streaming Cardi B and acts like that. Pledge Music right now and Frontiers Records are two things that are doing things right, Frontiers mainly releases older artists new music, the artists own the stuff do their own marketing pretty much, but keep a lot of what they sell, so you may see them debut one week and then disappear the next, but the fact is in that one week they probably made more than a Cardi B makes at all on her music/hype/streams etc...Plus they can tour and most artists today can not tour, they mainly pop off the screen through YouTube and things like that but ask them to play live and its like play what? For the most part I still get plenty of great music because its either coming from artists that I have built a loyality too or in many cases those artists have turned me on to them. I mean I look at artists like Sondre Lerche, Morgan James, Andy Allo, Highasakite and so many more and I just wonder if only the mainstream was actually competitve and DJ's at radio could play what they want not what they are paid to play, totally different scene would exist.

lastdecember said:

namepeace said:

That could be true, though the millenials may disagree, but I think there's enough.

In 2018, with the world at our fingertips and a wealth of ways to find what we're looking for, including online communities like this one, if music lovers miss great music, it's OUR fault.

New(ish) artists that are making great music (and the older ones, for that matter) need our support to continue, and so many of them don't (or no longer) have promotional machines behind them.

The world at our fingertips but the majority are still sharing and streaming Cardi B and acts like that. Pledge Music right now and Frontiers Records are two things that are doing things right, Frontiers mainly releases older artists new music, the artists own the stuff do their own marketing pretty much, but keep a lot of what they sell, so you may see them debut one week and then disappear the next, but the fact is in that one week they probably made more than a Cardi B makes at all on her music/hype/streams etc...Plus they can tour and most artists today can not tour, they mainly pop off the screen through YouTube and things like that but ask them to play live and its like play what? For the most part I still get plenty of great music because its either coming from artists that I have built a loyality too or in many cases those artists have turned me on to them. I mean I look at artists like Sondre Lerche, Morgan James, Andy Allo, Highasakite and so many more and I just wonder if only the mainstream was actually competitve and DJ's at radio could play what they want not what they are paid to play, totally different scene would exist.

I share so much of your frustration, but we can't control what the majority does, the DJ situation has existed for decades, and I can't speak for you, but I've aged out of the demographic the industry cares most about.

I was spoiled growing up in time where great artists of all stripes were easy to find the radio and television. No more. But thanks to the internet and groups like the Org, I'm finding enough new music to blend into my collection to satisfy me, and to share with others, and that's all I can ask for.

Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, coda, song.