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The Evolution of the Chillwave Genre: What’s Next 4 ‘chill wave’ artists.

By Carles | October 27, 2009

As yall know, in the 2k9 post-AnCoGrizzPhoenixBear world, the indiesphere generated a new genre of music to love/follow/listen 2 called ‘chillwave.’ Most authentic alts were there to watch the chillwave genre ‘get off the ground’, getting ‘tons of mad blog hype buzz’ from relevant mp3 blog tastemakers. Now that chillwave has grown up [...]

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Will 2k10 be the ’shittiest year’ in the history of music/indie music?

By Carles | August 11, 2009

I feel worried about 2k10. It seems like 2k9 is a year that we should feel ‘ashamed of’, and 2k10 is a year that we will sort of just emotionally ‘pull back’ our interest in tastemaking. I feel like 2k9 has had some ‘good products’, but maybe it was just a year where [...]

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Some ‘respected’ U.K. magazine makes list of ‘50 artists who are going 2 alter the future of music

By Carles | August 5, 2009

Sometimes I read blogs that post ‘relevant stories’ that were generated by magazines. I am not sure if music magazines will still be alive in _ years, but I think that their last opportunities to ‘get people to visit their websites’ means making ‘huge lists’ where they list a bunch of blogworthy/noteworthy people, then [...]

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Not sure if I ‘get’ the Dirty Projectors

By Carles | June 15, 2009

I heard of this new band that has possibly been around for a while. They are called The Dirty Projectors, and I think that they are from the greater-New York area. They have a new album called Bitte Orca–not sure what that name ‘even means.’ Might be Latin / French / German [...]

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