listen to more new music

Music I want to hear:
- The Clash
- Bob Dylan
- opera – specifically, Beniamino Gigli
- Coleman Hawkins
- Foo Fighters
- Ella Fitzgerald

Elgar: Complete symphonies, Pomp and Circumstance marches, violin concerto

Grieg: Peer Gynt, Norwegian Dances, etc.

I’ve only been on Myspace for a year or so. I’ve begun checking out independent record labels and listening to new music. You can find ethnic traditional music, or new indie music, or new stuff from old staples.

Since this goal could sit on my list forever, I decided to find 10 new artists that I REALLY like and then I will consider this goal accomplished (which is the point right?) I will continue looking and listening, but I’d like the space on the list for more things.

So far, I love “Fruit Bats”. (band name, yes)

Happy Listening!

For example, my friend has just gotten me really into Amy Winehouse. A new favorite artist!!

i
am
just
too
lazy
and
good
music
too
hard
to
find
for
this
goal
to
continue

I think that my problem with this goal, and the reason I stopped listening to anything really new, is that with the advent of digital availability I am purely and simply swamped by the choices available to me. I don’t have time – or rather, I choose not to make time – to sit and trawl through it all in the hope of finding something I like.
Back in the day, I used to just get a music magazine once a month and listen to the new tracks on the CD that came with it. If I liked a track, I could go and find out more about the artist in question.
There must be some kind of service that can send you the equivalent in mp3? Mustn’t there?

I think I might actually die.

Not to mention stop liking the masterpieces in question.

Now that Mushroom Towers is fully interneted up, I really don’t have an excuse.

In that vein, I’m now baking cookies (hey, no calories as long as I make them myself, that’s the rule) while listening to an Indian-dance music show I used to have on sometimes while pulling all nighters at uni. Ah, painful, painful memories! Whatever happened to all that pro-plus I wonder? And the litres of orange juice? Poisening myself slowly from the inside, that’s what.

It’s actually alot cooler than it sounds. Very rhy-thm-i-cal. I was a pretty cool mother f*cker back then, you know.

Bobby Friction and Nihal – R1’s Asian beats show

Just click on the listen again link, and the world of punjabi drum and bass is your oyster.

Start trawling MySpace etc much more to discover interesting unsigned bands, and stop filling my iPod with the same tracks everyone else has on theirs

I need to locate sources of information on new classical music being written, performed, and recorded. Where is that kind of thing documented, anyway?

...for this goal is spending more time at the library. I can’t afford to buy new music on the off-chance it may be good. So, I need to get to the library weekly and check out a CD or two. I did this during the summer, but it needs to be a year-round habit.