Dan

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:49:06 -0800

MTV was your only source of new music...in the _90s_???!! The 90s was a golden age of music press in the US, if you ask me. Any Tower Records would have had Alternative Press, Magnet, Big Takeover, Punk Planet, etc. Yes the internet has made this process easier (no more standing in the magazine aisle at Tower trying to read as much as you can of the mags you're not actually going to buy), but it's made everything easier, right? Everything except publishing a print music magazine, I suppose. I guess I'm a little curious about what it was that you were "force fed" in the 90s anyway...for some reason I keep thinking Better Than Ezra. :-) Another thing to think about is the historical view: if you think it was hard to find new stuff in the 90s, imagine what it was like in the early 80s (no desktop publishing--hopefully you or one of your friends had an office job with a copier you could use after hours for your 'zine), the late '70s (typewriter, mimeograph), the late 60s/early 70s (???). It makes the fact that someone like Big Star is even known today all the more incredible. Dan

Paramour

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:55:02 -0800

I say that we liked them just because we didn't have enough musical diversity and choice to have the luxury to discriminate. Sources for new music were limited to MTV and...well...MTV was it really. Er...what?

lisa

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:01:16 -0800

i too like crustaceans and dinosaurs. good work.

LAist: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

Dan

Paramour

lisa