By now it's no secret that wading through hype blogs to get your new music fix is like eating unsalted vegetable broth for dinner—boring, often depressing, and ultimately unsatisfying. Scott Tennent of Pretty Goes with Pretty has an
insightful post to that effect, calling bullshit on the "mythologizing of the '90s" by those people who are chained to their computers while rightfully pointing out that local music scenes exist today every bit as much as they did 15 years ago, no matter how globalized the world—and by extension the way we consume music—has become. Tennent's post rings especially true in light of a show I attended on Friday in my hometown of Houston, where the concept of a local music scene is perhaps at its most raw and genuine (that is to say, tight-knit, lo-fi, oftentimes largely underwhelming, but entirely devoted to itself as a community, and occasionally
brilliant).
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