greg davis wrote:
quoted 8 lines America is a musical wasteland.
>>> America is a musical wasteland.
>
> i dont like this statement.
> talk about bad generalizations.
> there is some great music being made in america recently.
> the whole indie/postrock/electronic or whatever you wanna call scene is
> producing some very good creative music. plus the whole free jazz/improv
> scene is also thriving. you just have to look for it.
I'm sorry if I was a bit unclear in my pique. I wasn't talking about the
music coming out of the US so much as what the median listener is exposed to
or searches out.
quoted 5 lines maybe america is a wasteland for electronic music, but thats starting to
> maybe america is a wasteland for electronic music, but thats starting to
> prove that isnt true either. there are a crop of upcoming electronic
> artists in the states. i actually hear more about american artists
> nowadays than i do about anyone from anywhere else. (maybe because i
> live here)
Sure, you can find a lot of good stuff if you start looking, but it seems to
me that people are far less inclined to even begin to search over here (I
moved to the US from Sweden eighteen months ago). Not that Europeans are
automatically super-enlightened and active music lovers, but I think that
looking at sale charts on either side of the Atlantic will show that among
the waves of unmitigated crap there's more odd, quirky and progressive music
in the Euro charts than in the US ones. And I'm not talking just about IDM,
but any musical genres that aren't Classic Rock, basically.
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