For the past few years I’ve noticed an increasing gap between overtly top 40 pop music and independent uncommercial music. When I was a kid, There was still the top 40 shit you see nowadays. There were artists such as The Backstreet Boys, *Nsync, Britney Spears, The Spice Girls etc. You also had more independent artists such as Dinosaur Jr., They Might Be Giants, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and things like that. But there was also a clear middle ground. Artists who were popular, but still had enough credibility to appeal to the true rock fan who weren’t into music being fed to the masses... Read more