here's an entry about music

[jlh]

So the other day I finally put the ton of music I'd been accumulating here and there into my itunes, and now I'm like, rolling around in new music and it's so much fun, isn't it, listening to a really good song for the first time, and wanting to immediately replay it? I love that feeling!

I still get excited when I can buy records for $10 at Target, which is a great place to find indie bands on sale!

1. However, a Target in Brooklyn is a lousy place to find any copies at all of the new Jill Scott, which I streamed off NPR a few weeks ago--totally sold out, so I'll have to grab that off itunes itself. You go girl with your #1 album!
   
2. I'm a little behind with getting on the Mumford & Sons bandwagon but damn, that record is really excellent.
   
3. I also got the new Bon Iver, which is very Bon Iver-y.
   
4. I got a Spin Magazine sampler which I haven't made my way through, completely, but which has a ton of great stuff on it.
   
5. Foster the People is summery and bright and I highly. recommend it; if you like any of their songs that have been floating around, you'll like the record.

I also got a summer sampler from Nylon Magazine--just go to nylonmag.com and look for the itunes playlist, and you too can get 20 free songs including new Duran Duran and a Florence + the Machine live track.

Gotta say, I'm enjoying music a lot more now that I don't pay attention to the online feminist chatter about music, which I find incredibly narrow in both the artists discussed and the aspects of those artists considered in the analysis. Either no one is interested in reading anything broader, or no one is interested in writing it. I'm getting better at tuning out things that endlessly frustrate me.

Comments

[sajia_kabir]

hmm. try unusualmusic on dreamwidth for afropunk/indie rockers who aren't white straight cismale (quite a lot of them, actually).

[jlh]

Thanks for the rec!

However, I hope you haven't assumed from this entry—in which, by the way, I mention trying to buy Jill Scott and being unable to—that I only listen to white boy indie rock and then judging me for it. It's true that I bought it on this occasion and as I left the store I thought huh, odd that on this day that's all I picked up, but I've just double checked my itunes and while it's true that I don't buy tons and tons of music, here are the last records I purchased:

Adele 21
Vampire Weekend Contra
Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Volume Two
Crowded House Intriguer
The National High Violet
The XX XX
Metric Fantasies
St. Vincent Actor
Neko Case Middle Cyclone
Florence + the Machine Lungs
Jill Scott The Real Thing
India.Arie Voyage to India
Bat For Lashes Two Suns

While I'd rather not be judged for the culture I consume (kalichan has a great essay about that) and I make it a life policy to try not to judge people for pretty much anything, I'd hope that I'd be judged on more than just three records mentioned in one entry (you can see lots of other things I have to say about music here). If I posted all the time about nothing but white boy indie rock, I could understand it, but as it is, I'm puzzled and feel sort of sad.

[sajia_kabir]

Oh no, I wasn't assuming anything! And I have the least right to judge anyone for their music tastes, considering that as a teenager I was totally into alternative rock and Big Music like REM and Tori Amos and was respectfully wary of black music until I discovered Jill Scott. I mean, I'm a U2 Fan, for god's sake.
I also have a friend named yeloson who's also on LJ/DW and while he posts primarily on personal, cultural and political stuff, he regularly posts these amazing videos from POC artistes - he likes Jean Grae, for instance.

[jlh]

Again, thanks for the recs! and the clarification! There's just, so much judginess around and I'm not always great at being on the right side of it, as they say, so I'm sorry that I had the wrong take from your comment. Thanks!