Also, if you are buying some of the best music that you feel is being made in your lifetime, please share who they are, because the bulk of what is played on the radio are Pitbull, Ke$ha, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, LG, etc ... I'd like to know who you are buying. Seriously, I'm curious.

Thanks!

I know this question wasn't asked of me but just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents. There is a ton of new music released this Century that I love immensely. So many songs to love. But it's all a matter of taste. I grew up on classic rock but I don't want to listen to music from 30 years ago on a daily basis. I want music that is new. NEW NEW NEW!!!!

No problem Viv ... I asked Karma because I really am curious. I'm probably missing out on some great music so I'd like to know who people are listening to. As a DJ, I love club music but, not what is being promoted today. What the "kids" want to hear are the same thing they can hear anytime on the radio. If I never play another Beyonce, LG, KP, Bruno video/song again, it will be too soon. However, there is some wonderful house music being made today that still retains that soulful, joyous and vibrant sound that I loved so much in the 90's. I don't want to be stuck in the past but, the house music that came from that era is the best so, I'm glad to know that there are DJ's (old and new) still making that kind of music.

-Miguel Migs
-Steve "Silk" Hurley
-Myles Bigelow
-Sean McCable
-Joey Negro

Just to name a few. That is the music I prefer to play.

I also agree with a comment that Sinead O'Connor made recently about, rock and roll being dead. "They are murdering rock and roll. The power to move people and to change things is dying." I don't think she means just the rock and roll genre, but any type of music that comes from an organic place. You just don't hear a lot of that anymore. Back in the 70's and 80's, we knew who the singer songwriters were and we knew who the "fluff" artists were. Today, almost any artists that comes out is promoted as a true talent. Everyone is a signer / songwriter now. Not!

Thanks for replying. I actually *love* conspiracies, so I wasn't making fun of you. Some of them are laughable, but still fun! The Illuminati is particualr are interesting because of the vast reach of membership, depending on who you talk to. It's hilarious to me that The Pope and Rihanna would be in the same secret-organization-that-controls-the-world.


Radio really blows, for sure. Bruno Mars isn't terrible, but I don't have any of his music. I really wish some billionaire would start up a new radio station in a huge market and show everyone that music doesn't really suck.

I know everyone has varying tastes, but some of the artists that I'm really into right now (when I'm not listening to Madonna, who I've been obsessed with out of the blue) are Vampire Weekend, Franz Ferdinand, Neko Case, Kid Cudi, Kasabian, James Morrison, Haim, The Limousines, The Black Keys, Gin Wigmore, San Cisco - I don't hear any of these artists on the radio, at least not on any of the Denver market stations, and it makes me feel that radio is pretty gross and very misleading when it comes to representing the quality of pop music today. There's really a lot of great stuff out there, and I can't understand why everytime I turn on the radio, I'm hearing what is, arguably, some of the least interesting music I've ever heard - *especially* in the Dance genre. It's gotta be hard to DJ in a club right now.

Not to say that it's *all bad*. P!nk is a favorite of mine, and she gets very good radio exposure. Even Katy Perry isn't awful, but she is vastly over-represented in the radio market. Who decides these things? The best thing that could happen to music, and especially radio right now, is to hire actual DJs again, and allow them to choose what they play. Until that happens, and as long as radio is only playing the same Corp. playlists nationwide, the perception that pop music has nothing interesting to offer will persist.

Edit: Also, I would suggest you check out the Steve Hoffman record forums. http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/forums/music-corner.2/ It has hundreds of very active posters who love to talk about any and every genre of music. Everytime I think I've heard it all, there's someone else listing off a dozen of their favorites I've never even heard of.

[A little transcription from the video posted earlier]

Something Else Reviews January 30, 2014

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014...th-dave-grohl/

Stevie Nicks’ plate, already filled with Fleetwood Mac, solo projects and an acting job on American Horror Story, would be piled still higher if she had her way. Nicks says she’d love to play some concerts with Dave Grohl.

Nicks appeared in the 2013 Sound City documentary, and has occasionally sat in with Grohl as part of his Sound City Players supergroup. Performances included some late-night television stops and a few dates in conjunction with the film.

“I’m hoping that, at some point, that Dave Grohl and his grunge army, I’m hoping that maybe we can go and do a small tour — because we had so much fun when we went out and did all of the film festivals,” Nicks tells CBS’ Chris Booker. “We did five shows, and it was just fantastic. It was one of the best times of my life.”

The always-working Nicks also confirms not one, but two different tours planned for the coming year. One, presumably, would involve Fleetwood Mac, which is getting together with Christine McVie again after a 15-year haitus. Apart from that five-person reunion jaunt, another Nicks tour would perhaps involve some solo shows.

How does Nicks keep it up, more than four decades into her career?

“If I was doing something else that I didn’t love, I think I would be a lot older,” Nick says. “If you find that passion, I can pretty much guarantee you that you can be 65, and still have that passion. You’ll still have a reason to dance out of bed and down the hall every morning — and I do, every morning. Thank God there’s nobody seeing this, except my dog.”

#GRAMMYs#@RealStevieNicks wearing @MargiKentStudio chiffon tunic with Doug Morris, CEO of Sony Music Entertainment pic.twitter.com/K3dzBEu2DA

— Margi Kent (@MargiKentStudio) January 30, 2014

Margi is tweeting pictures of Stevie wearing her clothes at the Grammys...

It would be nice if she got Stevie's twitter right...

Admitting liability. Mark this tweet as evidence to be used against Margi in a criminal trial.

Michele

[From an article on Ellen Pompeo]

http://www.wetpaint.com/ellen-pompeo...8Excerpt%29%29

Since Ellen tagged Pharrell in the video — as well as famed DJ Samantha Ronson and Hollywood hairstylist Carla Gentry Osorio — we’re assuming she attended at the same after-party he hit up: the Sony Music Entertainment Post-Grammy Reception at the Palm. Also in attendance? John Legend, Katy Perry, and even music legend Stevie Nicks. Sounds like Ellen had an amazing night!

Even the Queen is starting to do it a little. The Crystal Visions cover, hiding one eye behind a hat in For What Its Worth, the owl in Moonlight, talking about it in interviews. I kid you not, there's a vid on Youtube called "Stevie Nicks Admits to Being Illuminati."
Then again, I think everyone is accused these days. I mean half of the people in the Christian Music Industry is being accused of being in the Illuminati.:shrug:

Have you watched that video? She is just using "illuminati" as an example of a secret society, and she it feels like she was brought into one working on AHS and having to keep mum about it. She could've said Knights Templar or The Orisha Priesthood or whatever and meant the same thing.

And just about everything seems to be linkable to Illuminati hysteria. A website said that the Taco Bell sign has a secret "6" in it, and the logo is put on three sides of every TB, ergo "666" ergo Illuminati!!! ZOMG!

And the "O" sign people make with their index finger and thumb is apparently one too. Which also means "everything is a-ok" according to my primary school teachers, and "take it up the ass" in Italy. Is every aggressive Italian driver a member of the Illuminati too? I guess we can't prove they're not. But it does make you wonder, right? (No it doesn't.)

I also cover one of my eyes in the palm of my hand whenever I'm feeling tired/stressed. But I am definitely part of a secret elite society so that's probably not an example I should bring up for the case I'm making.

Someday some Ledgie is going to accuse you of being the leader of a secret society here. Or the leader of a clique. It's happened to me already. LOL

What really drives me bonkers is Stevie's mis pronounciation of the word Illuminati. She says; Illuminata. Just like the way she screwed up Nag Champa with Nag Champra.

I think she messed it up on purpose to mock the theory;)

You know that and I know that. But there are some people of whom I'm genuinely concerned about their mental health...