Teenage Cool Kids

I definitely don't listen to much music anymore. I mean, probably more than most people still, but not as much as IIII used to. Which is sort of fine, I decided today. I think it came about from a lot of factors. I had headphones for only the first half of second semester, so it was very rare I listened to music for MY own enjoyment after spring break. I think I kicked it with some Wilco, Japandroids, some other stuff. Listening to less and less music was definitely a yearlong trend too. I lived on a floor with mostly film majors. Movies are something I'm mildly well-versed in so I just kinda ran with that...these days I go to the movies more than I go to shows. I could just be going through a dry period, NOTHING HAS REALLY CAUGHT MY EAR. Also, music criticism has been stale this year, I think. No one is picking up magazines anymore, of course. Plus, Spin and Rolling Stone etc. are just covering the same banal crap as everyone else: Vampire Weekend, AnCo, Lady GaGa, reunions, Green Day...whatever. I don't even know! Should I? Am I wrong? The internet is even worse. You expect the internet to offer exciting criticism. Pitchfork, however, is either pandering or middling. Pandering in their predictable heroes of 2009: Grizzly Bear, AnCO again, Phoenix, St. Vincent, Dan Deacon, Wavves... lo fi, experimental jizz, IDM, whateverrrrr. Same old shit, amifuckinrite? ONCE IN A BLUE MOON Pitchfork will really offer something that's overlooked: your Japandroids, Woods. Middling in that every day there's a swath of 5.0s-7.0s with accompanying reviews that accomplish little... As far as larger publications go, Magnet admittedly does run a pretty great website after years of ignoring the format. Other than that, I'm bored. I know I'm missing something: give me something to read, somebody! I need new avenues of finding new music. My best bet is usually the front page of sordo music database, some kind of shady operation.