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Danger Danger! Dinosaur Feathers Go on Display This Friday!
After expressing my fan-boy appreciation for the band, I asked something that I couldn’t really get an answer for by the band’s Myspace or Facebook. In case you don’t follow indie rock as religiously as I do, in the last couple of years or so, there has been an amazing scene growing in Brooklyn. There’s really no better place to be right now if you’re a musician. Also, there are a lot of incredibly interesting musical trends going on in Brooklyn-based music right now – which include tendencies for African rhythms, noodly guitars, and Beach Boy-like harmonies. However, Dinosaur Feathers seems to put all of these elements together into a summery rock context that hasn’t really been done before.
Live Music – the Future of the Industry
Because of this change in music and the way listeners consume music, the music industry is now at a crossroads. They are now forced into deciding whether it should give up on trying to make any money off of recorded music, or crusade against illegal downloads and fight a war that is seemingly as endless and useless as the war on drugs or the War on Terror. I believe that if illegal downloading isn’t stopped soon, music will become entirely free, and bands will become a thing of the past, replaced by machines reproducing sampled sounds.
