The funny thing about press is that as soon as one publication talks about you, suddenly everyone else wants to talk about you. I believe there’s a peculiarly insular group think that seems to occur with music blogs. Hundreds of individuals dedicating their time to talking about what they like, yet often times they end up talking about the same stuff. Sometimes this can have disastrous implications, a race to the bottom of quality as trends take over *cough* dreamwave, dubstep *cough*. To quote my good friend Brian Robertson of ANR, “blogs are the Fox News of music.” Not always the case but it seems like us musicians are often desperate to get fifteen-year-olds in their bedrooms to write about us. Oh my, how the industry has turned.
Anyway, the Discipline EP has been getting a little bit of blog heat recently since Big Stereo spoke about it the other day. Here’s a brief summary of some of the coverage:
Electronic Rumors
The ‘Discipline EP’’s title track is a genre crushing Nu-Disco/SynthPop/Acid Techno stormer. A hard and dark bassline propels the track forward and counterpoints the catchy vocals, and that’s before it goes crazy with Acid builds!
Electronic Rumors on Discipline EP
We Are Pajamas
I call it indie-electro, but the harder kind. Maybe electro-indie (the first name is always the major driver, right?). Well, whatever he is, I like it. Panic Bomber is definitely a guy to watch for this year.
We Are Pajamas on Discipline EP
Indie 30
“Disicpline” becomes number two song in ‘Top 30′
Panic Bomber’s blitzkrieg of a track, ‘Discipline’ jumped all the way to Number 2 from 10
Atari Cool Kids
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Group think is not necessarily a bad thing. Actually, most of the times it turns out to be good. Artists choose to talk with a certain blog maybe because that’s the one they know, but there’s more people eager to show what artists that otherwise won’t be shown in their hometowns. That’s our example.. we live in Portugal and you probably where exactly is Portugal. Our access to good music is so limited, because music stores are so limited here and concerts are a once upon time phenomenon, that we find necessary to open people’s mind. It’s not about being fifteen, but about having the will to show people that there’s more than David Guetta and Black Eyed Peas. And of course there’s a lot of similarities on blogs, but each blog has its own spectrum of genres they like, so every blog has its own charisma and place on the blogosphere. I’m just sayin’ .. ! Cheers
Hey Pajamas, I agree with you! I just find it funny how there are trends that pop up even in the “underground” where there’s a collective rush towards a certain sound. I feel as though there are a lot of music journalists and fans who will listen to one type of music simply because it is that type, rather than listening for the song writing. What do I mean? Every genre has good songs and bad songs, interesting songs and boring songs. I notice a lot of boring songs getting hyped up simply because they sound similar to some interesting songs. And that’s where “group think” can go wrong.
But on the whole, I just find it fascinating how different people from all over the world will suddenly decide to like a particular act. It’s bewildering!
Thanks for sharing =)
I totally agree with you on that. But that’s not only about blogs.. I find it interesting that group think actually exists with music that comes out every single day… I find it really good, like I said. There’s a thing though, that you are not mentioning, that is the group think related with the mass of people that don’t care about the music they hear and still listen to the same shit year after year. Maybe it doesn’t happen in Miami, but man, it happens here. Clubs that play the same house-shitty songs since ’99 and people still go there like it’s a new thing. At least, with the blogs phenomenon, people hear new, good music. I don’t wanna be here complementing you and all, but how in the world would I know your work if it wasn’t for hype? Good things come up and stay, bad things may come up but they are soon pushed away from the spotlight. The blogosphere may think in packs, but I believe they/we are really doing it fairly!
Thanks for answering dude, nice to hear some opinions ;) Cheers!