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Stereopathic’s Horse Feathers Mini-Resource
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Justin Ringle, a Moscow, Idaho native and the center of Portland folk band Horse Feathers, had an interview last year with the SoCal blog Aquarium Drunkard, an interview that managed to ask nearly every question a Stereopathic interviewer might have asked him. To wit:
AD: You hear a lot of things about artists who grew up in remote or removed evidence, fashioning their own sense of what music should sound like based on their limited resources. Are we going to see those same unique things? We’re having this sort of homogenization of culture thanks to television and the Internet. Is that going by the wayside?
JR: I think it is. This is a conversation I’ve had with my friends for some time. I think with the cost of gas over the last couple of years, I think it’s out-priced a lot of bands from touring. And I think a bunch of this - I’ve always kind of crossed my fingers that might happen so we might see more regionalism in music. Bands that stay more regional rather than touring the country all the time. That’s something I saw a lot growing up in the Northwest. I wasn’t right next to the epicenter, but all that stuff to me was really important. All the regional music was what I listened to first and foremost. It’s almost a shame that a band is owned by the world the moment they put stuff online. I kind of wish it wasn’t that way because things are so exposed over night that it doesn’t give time enough for that individuality and originality to really take hold. I think people already, out of the gate, they’re listened to and, I don’t know, the internet is a bizarre thing in that kind of way.
In the coming months, we hope to post quite a bit more about the bizarre thing Ringle mentions here. In some ways, Internet has created a new kind of pop shelf life, flurrying excitement and purple prose over songs and records digitally leaked months before their official release dates, and then forgetting about those songs and records the moment the next leak hits the torrent sites. Internet has helped mute, in part, the din created by the mainstream outlets… by creating just as clattering and irritating a din of indie noise.
On the other hand, Horse Feathers is a band that everyone here at Stereopathic discovered via Internet… in part, because we can’t help but wander the modern music distribution landscape; in part, because we’re in the same town Ringle grew up in, so we’re subject to the same geographic constraints he was, and we have to find music somehow…
Find out more about Horse Feathers here. And come see them at the Nuart this Wednesday. Regardless of how Internet might change the influence and distribution of music, it still can’t bring bring a band to you in the flesh. We’re limited by corporeality as far as live music goes, and here’s to that.
Now, more internet music distribution:
Horse Feathers - Curs in the Weeds mp3
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