On any given day, there are thousands of posts from music fans scolding technology for the death of ______ (insert “the garage band,” “rock and roll,” “punk,” whatever you see fit) due to loss of revenue. As a self-proclaimed music geek, I used to spend hours digging through friends’ hard drives, iPods and even ambushing relatives/friends/anyone I knew to bring me music magazines from different continents. Willing to listen to anything at least once, I was starting to find my music collection a little stale.
I am one of those people who actually used to use Napster to find new music, not to steal it. I would listen to an album, and if I liked it, I would go to the record store and buy it. I know! Unheard of, right? I must be lying? I’m not. I was Girl Scout too, and will always live by the Girl Scout credo…. Which is… Uh… Whatever, you get my drift.
Approximately a year ago, I finally caved to Twitter peer pressure, and was pleasantly surprised to find how many bands were very active on said social media platform. Gone are the days of discovering bands playing your city via flyers, by going to each band’s website or, god forbid, their MySpace.
They TELL you when they are coming and will usually remind their followers via feed postings. What the….?
Long story short, a separate Twitter completely devoted to music was necessary. My “real life” friends’ feeds were being hijacked by my rants about last night’s show, or the highly-anticipated new Menzingers album, which, almost definitely, was something they did not appreciate.
After building up what I thought to be the perfect feed… Something crazy happened… Bands I had never heard of started following me. At first I wrote them off as pornographic spam, like my mom, who assumes any email not from her kids is the “I Love You” Virus… These were real bands, and by some act of god, bands I like! Internet magic, I tell you! That Bill Gates sure knows a thing or two! (Of course, I know Bill Gates isn’t the king of the internet, some politician is… duh)
The most recent additions to my Spotify rotation have been Farewell Fighter, The Falling Trance, The Coronation (not yet on Spotify) Promise of Redemption (Shane from Valencia's side project), The Product… They’re good and I would never have found ANY of them had it not been for “The Twitter.”
All hail the interweb!
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