There IS still good music in Austin!
There
IS still good music ! But nobody is listening to Music....Not really listening , leaning your head back and hearing dust turn into thunder right before the first note starts. Then ignoring the pops and skips. Not like a crowded Street quieting down so the lead singer can speak from a makeshift stage...Then the same crowd going crazy after the Bass Drops!
The good news is YES there is good music!
and a lot of it!
But , you have to be willing to hear a lot of Crap.
Now you don't buy albums ...you buy songs.
In a way the entire structure of Album -Song- Chorus-Verse- Measure- Beat is thrown completely off!
Not only in the whole project as it is heard,
but the way it is produced, and presented.
The song is heard out of context, or only as a Song/Album.
Most people, not just kids, are listening watching the video, or listening and watching something else.
They may have an entire browser filled with open pages,
as well as a phone buzzing with Texts.
The very nature of the music business right now
is as mysterious as
Dark Matter : Nowhere yet everywhere.
Basically that is my equivalent of :
"When I was a kid we didn't have Radios!
We didn't have Rock And Roll!
We had Rocks!
We smashed them against our heads
and it sounded Copacetic !!"
But Listen !
My very most wonderful crazy collection of Pals, Buddies
that guy I can't remember how we met.
friends this is OUR town YO!
We are the Music Capital of our butts!
However!..
Even though the weather can be contestable
There is Beautiful Music Happening
at
T H E O L D P E C A N S T R E E T F E S T I V A L !!
September 28th and 29th
Come discover New Local Music,
Arts and Crafts,
and Austin the way you love it!!
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