I've been watching a live stream of Rock am Ring festival at the moment whilst working. Currently Fever 333 are on with their new line up and they are sounding tight!
Space and Games are similar. Space is endless and new stuff is out there waiting to be discovered. Games are always being made but the creativity is different from one game to another and so many more ideas still haven't been imagined or created yet. (That came out better than expected lol)
The new Vampire Weekend album just released, and I think it’s a career best. Ten hits, no skips. Mary Boone, Pravda, Hope, Capricorn, The Surfer and Ice Cream Piano are favorites. It’s been an amazing year for music, with a Porter Robinson album still coming soon
You know what they say. All toasters, toast, toast!
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Yes, but that wasn't quite my point. My point was more that because we're now in a "post radio" age the music mono-culture is dead. When there was a huge hit in decades past everyone would hear it. It'd be unavoidable. That's not true anymore
And as a result there aren't anywhere near as many breakout artists anymore. People are going on about Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran etc but these are not new artists. They've been in the charts for well over a decade. I mean sure, there are viral hits and one hit wonders but most of the artists people congregate around gained their mass audience in the pre-spotify era. Newer artists can and do find an audience, finding an audience is easier than ever, but the audiences are heavily fractured and will never be as big as they once were
And to bring it back to the topic, this most definitely isn't the force happening to gaming. If anything gaming is going through the opposite. Gaming is being driven more and more by the gatekeepers. The biggest games are increasingly the ones that have the biggest marketing budgets. And it's dudes in suits who decide what those games are
I agree with what you're saying that you can't get mega big the same way nowadays but it's just the exact details of it we have different views on.
It's been the case for awhile now even before streaming but there are a few that can pull it off like Billie Eilish, first album came out in 2019 and a few short years later headlined both Glastonbury and Coachella the two biggest festivals on the planet. But most rock acts need time to get massive, like Blink 182's creative peak was the 90s, nowadays they can play stadiums and headline festivals yet didn't back in the 90s as they weren't on that level yet.There a few guitar acts doing it now though, I mentioned Maneskin, Sleep Token and Yungblud on the other thread that have gotten big in a few short years, they aren't my thing but I'm glad new guitar music is still connecting with the yoof.
@jump I saw DFA 1979 once - they were like a nice version of Lightning Bolt
I think the current version of Death consists of the sons of the bass player? The original band were brothers, so it's not quite a Napalm Death / Sugababes scenario...
I've never seen Lightning Bolt but their guerrilla gig sounds like something I'd LOVE!
I managed to catch Death From Above 1979 on a small club tour last year so rather than the 3k+ venues they normally play it was in a 400 person capacity club, load of fun!
Taylor just dropped a double album out of nowhere…highly recommended tortured poets, so good so far especially lyrically
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five favorite games of all time:
1. splatoon 3
2. minecraft
3. mother 2
4. xenoblade chronicles 3
5. zelda majoras mask
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Apparently there's somewhat of a tik-tok driven Shoegaze revival that has been happening over the last year or so. Which is an interesting development. I mean, it shouldn't really surprise because it's always been a bit of a "youth" genre in some sense. But as someone who has been into that genre for a while (and if you look at the playlists in my signature you can kinda see that) it's a bit interesting to be somewhat aligned with the youths again
So given it's apparently the in thing, a recommendation here for these here forums. The Depreciation Guild, largely passed over when they released their two albums in the late '00s. Basically their hook is that they were shoegaze with chiptune elements
Also, while I'm here, Ringo Deathstarr.... because....
This is called My love is Hellfire by SLAVE.V-V-R. A rhythm game I played has this as a playable track and I absolutely fell in love with it upon hearing it. It uses a singing synthesizer software called Vocaloid, and with the voicebank named MEIKO. I love it a lot because of the way the producer got the voicebank to sound. The high-pitched shrieks sound so realistic and impressive, which also fits the lyrical material of the song.
This next one is called Before I was born by MARETU, and uses a voicebank called Hatsune Miku. The producer is well-known for producing psychological songs, but I didn’t start listening to him until one or two years ago. This is a favorite of mine, though it’s one of his least popular songs. It has depressing lyrics and seems to be centered on existentialism, but I love the video game influences the song has with its visuals and music, which involves a little bit of chiptune. I was going to put another MARETU song here, but I sort of realized that the lyrics and music video sort of imply or suggest violence and I didn’t want to disturb anyone or possibly go against the rules of this site, so I didn’t.
His songs are great, but they sometimes are too dark or chilling… he made this song back in March that kinda freaked me out once I checked an English translation.
Anyone listing to anything interesting right now? I'm listing to some sonic adventure music right now. (And some DKC music.) Just curious what songs different people enjoy
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