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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
As to you comment on Str8's taste, you're dead right. I t sounds like he doesn't shoose music he actually likes, but instead buys - and recommends - stuff he reads about in Spin. Its a shortcoming, but he probably gets that from his job. My buddies in LA who work in that biz have awful taste in music because their only recommendations are product pitched to them by other people in the biz. I have about five emails from those guys telli g me the Bondies and the Darkness are the next big thing.
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I buy a lot of music on the strength of good reviews. There are certain reviewers who I trust completely and if they like something, I know I'll like it too. I also buy a lot of music that I hear on KCRW (California public radio giant) and Nic Harcourt's show Morning Becomes Eclectic. They've broken more cool bands than you'll ever know. For me it's the best system to discover new music that I can think of -- I just don't have time to go to clubs in LA listening to bands on spec.
The rest of the new stuff I buy is hip-hop I hear on Power 106 (Big Boy!!). And the rest of my music purchases are new releases from established bands I like, or realizing that I have a gap in my musical knowledge and rushing to fill it out -- like when I bought a bunch of Emmy Lou Harris CDs last month. Bottom line is that I buy a LOT of music, and none of it is a result of stuff being "pitched to me by people in the biz," unless you call what I've described above as such a pitching.
