"Back in my day, we had to BUY CD's!"

Ahh yes... Those certainly were better days. Back when music actually meant something more than a flavor of the month. Back when you would stay up until the AM's just to watch a music video too explicit for daytime. When the music industry wasn't inundated with these cookie cutter rock bands, shallow rap "stars" or trendy electropop trash. It would be safe to assume that musicians these days pump out hit after hit after GLORIOUS MAINSTREAM hit just to be featured on something like the end of last week's Grey's Anatomy, or whatever.

It has been difficult to find a decent band/musician I like simply because the industry is just flooded with these single-use, throw-away artists. Oh, you have a MySpace page? Signed! You had a cameo in the latest Kesha video? Millions! You sampled some Zeppelin riffs? NAW DUDE NAW. I'm simply pointing out how some bands can suddenly rise to critical acclaim without any effort whatsoever.

I think we can all agree that the worst thing are songs written specifically for a film.

What's even worse are bands that target young, impressionable college girls who will eat anything up as long as it screams "indietronica" and reflects their happy-go-lucky, Starbucks chugging lifestyle.

Fuck this, I'm listening to some J5.