My Space was a godsend. Give
me what I like and what I like is having a catalog of local music at
my fingertips.
Recording software that allows users to
capture online streams as they ooze from the speakers, combined with
broadband servers, totally turned the world around. Music downloads,
once queued up round the clock on Audio Galaxy or KaZaa became a
thing of the past. I could argue over the semantics, but I won't.
Just don't give me that look.... we all did it.
The main drawback to Napster 1.0, Audio
Galaxy and such, besides the shady legality of “Free downloads”
was the absence of local musicians and bands (unless you happen to
call NYC, Los Angeles, Minneapolis or Seattle home) My Space not only
fixed that, it also allowed you to tag and search for music by
locale.
If MySpace music was the 800 pound
gorilla in the room, then YouTube quickly became the 12,000 pound
elephant. Once YouTube to mp3 software was added to the arsenal of
sound capturing apps, all hell broke loose. Quasi-legal downloads
using quasi-legal software.... who saw that coming? Not the record
labels, for sure.
YouTube, Bandcamp, Soundcloud,
Reverberation, Last FM, iTunes, Amazon, Spotify... it's never been
easier. Ala Verga! Icky & The Yuks are on Spotify... think about
that. Archive the fuck out of this era, because the internet as we
knew it back in 2000 is long gone and the web as we know it now, will
soon be gone. To be replaced by some over regulated, homogeneous
version of the networks that made television no fuckin' fun what so
ever. Here we are now, entertain us.
You don't truly realize the musical
depth and scope of Albuquerque until you go on YouTube and start
searching. There's lots of it and it's almost all THERE. 60S garage
punk from Lance Records, THERE. Every band that Randy Castillo ever
joined, THERE. A truly obscure, cassette only album from 'Burque
metal band Triax/Tryax (sadly, minus Troy Romero) THERE. The
Crawling Walls full “Inner Limits” album from 1985.... also
THERE. Linclon St. Exit's 1968 lp “Drive it”, released on
Mainstream Records (Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes' label) THERE.
Every band ever started by Scott Allen Parson, THERE. And you may
ask yourself, where is this beautiful music? Not HERE, not today.
Action Figure- The Dirty Hearts
Gettin' a Raise- Scenester
Libertines in my Scene- The Dirty
Novels
Call to Rise- Stoic Frame
Idiot's Guide 2 Saying Goodbye- The
Hollis Wake
Audience Reaction- The Dirty Novels
Anne Taylor Must Die- Hit By A Bus
Let's Start Over- Oh! Ranger
briansong- The Bellmont
Spinning the Roulette God- Stoic Frame
Cali Girl- Left Unsaid
Chewbacca- Oh! Ranger
Gasoline Barbie- Scenester
Situations- The Gracchi
The Suicide Kings- Left Unsaid
Pale World- Stoic Frame
Yum- Scenester
Contradiction- The Hollis Wake
Voice of Reason- The Eyeliners
Less Clouded- Hit By A Bus
