Arcade Fire had the #1 album last week, although at 150,000 sold it is still a long way from what the really major acts move today. The album is excellent by the way.
You may be interested in this.
Wow. I’ve never even heard of this “ hip-hop megastar”
Music died in 1972.
I would LOVE to get Pitchfork to look at our new movie when it comes out in two weeks, “Rockin’ the Wall,” how rock rolled up the Iron Curtain (www.rockinthewall.com). Take a look at the trailer.
I also suspect that the editorial staff is either sleeping with or belong to an apocalyptic cult formed by Animal Collective. Perhaps the most overhyped outfit in post-rock today.
When Ice T showed up at the New Music Seminar in NYC, the NMS collapsed into a corporate sponsored toolfest for suits within 2 years.
On that timeframe, Pitchfork is probably toast.
I get all my new music from XMU (XM43), where I heard Sleigh Bells “Ring Ring” way before the album was released, and from my brother, whose fantastic gift to me every year is a compilation DVD of all the best indie songs of the year. Last year he handed me a DVD with 473 songs on it. I’ve discovered Phoenix, Santigold, Band of Horses, Japandroids and many other fine bands through those two sources. Anyone who discounts current music is both a fool and a curmudgeon....(I’m 46, BTW, and LOVE new music!)
“Indie” to me does not conotate “independent”. To me it means “flavor of the month hyped by paid bloggers and small subsidiaries of the major labels”.