Category Archives: music journalism

Is ‘The Pope’ the next relevant buzz band?

I read today at the Daily Swarm that the Pope ’signed’ to interscope records to ‘drop’ an album. He is apparently going 2 sing + recite some shit, and they are gonna ‘garageband’ that shit over choirs singing epic bangers. I feel excited about this, because it shows that you don’t have to [...]

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Indie Buzzbands 2 watch in 2k10: Hooting@TheBlowfish

Hooting@the Blowfish is a new band that is coming out with a lot of sweet mp3s and getting lots of coverage on the pitchfork zine.

They seem to be a multiracial band, appealing to black people, indie people, alt people, and mainstreamers.
It seems like they just want to promote chill vibes to any1 looking [...]

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What will music sound like in a post-MJ world?

Feels like ‘the whole mp3 blogosphere has been turned upside down’ since MJ died. It’s like every mp3 of music since MJ started making music was just trying to be ‘as good as MJ’, but now that he’s dead, we can finally accept that ‘no1 will ever be as good as MJ.’
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My bros left me behind and went on a meaningful life journey.

My bros left me behind and went on a journey to a meaningful music festival in Tennessee. Bonnaroo is somewhat authentic, but also somewhat ‘jam band bro.’ I feel left out. Not just because of the destination of a ’sweet ass music festival’, but because of what I will miss along the [...]

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