Jun 10th 2011, 9:35:06
martian - great interview and I agree and disagree with your sentiment.
In terms of the commercial music industry it is very mush relevant. Musicians in the popular scene are very much packaged to a product to appeal to a certain marketplace. It sucks but people like Justin Bieber will always be marketed becuase the 10-15 year old girls will gobble that sort of stuff up.
But, the technology available to 'cheaply' set up a reasonable home-studio and the internet means that many musicians are able to get their music out ther, bought, downloaded than before. So, in some ways the old guys that go 'I dont know lets try it' have been replaced by the semi-underground music scenes that pop up on the internet.
I also know in Melbourne (the awesomest city in Oz) there is the beginnings of a move away from the higly produced fluff that get marketed to teenage girls and back to a more organic music sound. Fingers crossed it takes off.