Generic “list” of Bands I’ve gained familiarity with in 2011 

2010 was a year I was introduced to music. By introduced, I mean drenched or immersed into the internet being a medium to which I could amass a personal database of music, not only because I was so hungry, but because I was prospective into the field of music journalism. Regrettably, I leaped head in onto the blog-o-sphere following every single mp3-tumblr and buzz-blog I could find and started posting whatever mp3-and-an-image-file-with-a-mild-description I could scrounge up. What was I expecting to wring out of that repetition? Retrospectively, I’m unsure what exactly the main reason was yet Twitter followers, blog-hits, and a (possibly naively thought of…) potential career were surely my highest of hopes on the list. I also couldn’t let go of the enduring trajectory of new artists who went to mp3 blogs first, maybe it was just me. Freeing myself from a cycle of constant time investment was a great thing, mostly due to the fact I now find greater joy in realizing the greatness of musical out-put beyond the release date of last week (or last month, or last year). So here’s an intentional non-list list of 9 (in no particular order) bands I’ve been able to verse myself with being free from the mass cacophony of buzzblogs.

Forgive me if it was totally my “duty” to already have been 1 to 1 with these guys’ discography.

The Fall, David Bowie, The Kinks, Neil Young, The Velvet Underground, Wire, Bob Dylan, Young Marble Giants, The Beatles.