Why MP3 Blogs Are Not The Worst Thing In The World

MP3 blogs get somewhat of a bad wrap. It is not the modus operandi of most bloggers to scour the web for MP3's that meet a certain list of criteria that have the greatest likelihood of "breaking". Most are not specifically looking to push a hidden agenda or to become internet celebrities by scouting those MP3's that are just quirky enough to maintain credibility and yet just popular/derivative enough they have a more than decent chance at gaining traction.

More likely MP3 bloggers are just people that have a passion for music and aren't satisfied with the lame corporate rock of the Clear Channel dominated mainstream music landscape. And aren't for a second naive enough to think we've "discovered" a band that's already on Merge or Barsuk or Matador, etc. or that when/if they do break than we were in any way responsible.

Even more jejune bloggers who would bother to post about a band like Arcade Fire, perhaps the biggest indie band at the moment, as if they needed any extra pub from lowly music bloggers, are not completely out of touch either. Whenever I do for a moment step out of my comfort zone/friend circle of music lovers (or at least people interested enough to keep up with current trends) I am always surprised how little the rest of the world is aware of what goes on around them music-wise --or even cares to for that matter. My mom, for instance, has no idea who Wilco is.

So I guess what our biggest hope is is that we in some way are able to spread good taste/passion/awareness that we try to have for music even if only in the most minuscule of amounts.

In that vain, here's a band we kinda dig but in no way had any hand in "discovering". They are in fact on Carpark Records (Beach House, Dan Deacon).

MP3: Light Pollution - Magic Kingdoms Kick My Teeth In

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