Find new bands!

[GatewaySnayke]

I am so tired of opening up Blender and Rolling Stone and they are constantly giving recommendations for this week's "dance punk" band. Good god, are there any other new bands out there that don't beg the description "(name here) mixes groove-heavy dance beat, razor-sharp wit and punk to create one of (year here)'s best (song/album)." And don't these bands have anything better in that cache of wit than annoying song titles about the dance floor?

And who in the world decided this was even a viable genre to promote?! "Ooh! Let's mix disco, power chords and distortion!"

[JL21]

And who in the world decided this was even a viable genre to promote?! "Ooh! Let's mix disco, power chords and distortion!"

I am unfamiliar with what you're talking about, but that combination sounds like it would make me give up all hope in humanity.

[thrill]

We are in a weird stage of new music in which bad musicians are deemed good in an ironic way as long as they have a cool style or something. IE - MIA. Awful.

[ThatGuy]

We are in a weird stage of new music in which bad musicians are deemed good in an ironic way as long as they have a cool style or something. IE - MIA. Awful.

Yeah, when I saw that they had chosen M.I.A.'s album as the best of 2007, I laughed. A lot. Is that really good music? Is that really music?

[heyzeus]

MIA is about 95% hype. The music's unlistenable.

But Snayke, beware. Right now, someone is writing "God, why do Blender/Rolling Stone/etc keep writing only about the White Stripes? White Strips this, White Stripes that. Find a new band!"

[GatewaySnayke]

Zeus, that person was me about four years ago. Then I realized that it's hard for them not to write about the Stripes, because they are currently the be-all, end-all of music. (Grievance anyone?)

What the hell kind of music does M.I.A. make anyway? I've never bothered to check it out because the hype on her seems unbearable.

[thrill]

I blame the White Stripes for this wave of ironically bad, stylized groups. Meg White specifically. Jack is the s, of course, but Meg's drumming makes their sound ironically good by being bad.

[TimeForGuinness]

start here: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com

[docellis]

http://www.pastemagazine.com/

I read this each month. Comes with a CD of (mostly) bands I've never heard of. Some are good. Some are bad.

[Popeye_Card]

I blame the White Stripes for this wave of ironically bad, stylized groups. Meg White specifically. Jack is the s, of course, but Meg's drumming makes their sound ironically good by being bad.

Is it cooler to hate irony or love it? Or is it cool to love people who hate people who love irony? I don't even know anymore.