by James DePaoloThe Joy Formidable:
A Balloon called Moaning
Black Bell Records
Big Hassle Media
Band Members-
Ritzy Bryan
Rhydian Dafydd Davies
Matt Thomas
What has the music industry turned into? You have record stores now a memory. We can now not only grocery shop, get a tire fixed, buy underwear but we can go through a top 40 selection of music to buy. With employees standing around looking scared someone will ask them a question about a band or a CD. Whatever happened to the simple days when music was alive and you go to a record store and hear music you were excited about, and had to purchase. When you looked in a magazine, and read an ad for a upcoming CD that looked like something you could get into. That you would rush to the record store and had to have that CD, and its liner notes and put it in the car and drive home happy. That experience is now online at the new music store called Itunes. It has been destroyed. Elvis Presley now is second to Glee. Seriously, Glee. The Beatles, Beach Boys, and etc. are all now on commercial jingles. Whatever happened to fresh pop music? Whatever happened about being excited about a CD, and putting it in your hands? Now, its silly people doing silly things, from being drunk and pushing the system as racist to coming out of a egg, pop music like our culture is just dying. But, I found a ray of light, a small breath of hope. It is called the Joy Formidable.