autumn paranoia

It’s official. The one music magazine I actually like has sold it’s soul.

I just got an email from Kerrang! Radio, which I subscribed to a while ago, with a promotion about Selfridges. I’ll paste it here:

Kerrang! Radio invades Selfridges inside Bull Ring Birmingham on Saturday 17th October with an afternoon of music, shopping and seriously good fun. Loz Guest will be on the decks from 12 til 4 dropping the biggest Kerrang! tuneage as well as giving YOU the chance to win VIP passes to Live@ Kerrang! and Selfridges Gift Cards. Plus hit this link to download an exclusive student discount voucher to spend in store on some top brands like Diesel, Miss Selfridge and Warehouse. Selfridges, the number 1 fashion destination for Birmingham

It is an ALTERNATIVE MUSIC MAGAZINE AND RADIO STATION. I thought it might be one of the few things that stayed that way. Apparently not. And the magazine itself has gone downhill rapidly. I used to have a smile on my face when reading about the latest music news and articles on bands I liked. Now I flick thought the pages yelling at the magazine for being full of shit. Every week, Green Day, Hey Monday, Steel Panther, Paramore, Muse and why Uprising is such an original song - don’t even get me started on that one. Mainstream and/or overrated, overhyped and overvalued shit.

Where the fuck did talent, originality and passion go? I’ve just watched the DVD of Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense show. It is incredible, go watch it. That was twenty five years ago. I was born in completely the wrong generation. I should have been an ’80s kid, a teenager in the ’90s, still around in the early 2000s; then I’d of lived a good enough life to kill myself about now before the world completely disintegrates into the tacky, cheapend and commercialised crap that it’s becoming right now.