I don’t come down to your work and slap the dick out of your mouth.
Most of the bands and artists I’m betting on to make inroads in the mainstream in ’09 are already known to pop music zealots, to the point that many among that particular subculture might already deem a few of them “old hat.” My interest here isn’t with these people, because –as you know if you’ve ever been cornered by one of them in a bar –they already know everything.
Even if hipsters will assume that as soon as a band becomes popular that band is no longer cool, most people don’t hear music until it makes it into some form of the mainstream, be it via the Internet, the radio, the television, or one of those Web radio stations that does the thinking for you (Genius, Pandora and the like).
This, then, is a list of bands to watch, both local and national, in the coming year:
Who: Fleet Foxes [...]
Who: Vampire Weekend [...]
Who: Santogold
From The Buffalo News Who’ll be rockin’ in 2009? Jeff Miers’ list of bands to watch (via Idolator)
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