In the weirdest coincidence in tMiM’s young history, Tobias and I started posting on our myspace-based music fishing trips within moments of each other. He hit the Publish button first, so I get to write out the explanation: “It was just happenstance, folks!” Yeah. I don’t believe it either.
Here’s how mine was going to work. Call it Six Degrees of MySpace Surfing. Pick a fairly obscure artist, although one with a decent following and an online presence. Say, in this case, Indian Jewelry. Find their myspace page.
Go to their friends list and pick the first musical act you have never heard of. With an independent outfit like Indian Jewelry, this shouldn’t take but a page or two of scrolling. (Although sometimes it is difficult to discern band pages from the pages of disturbed fans. I have no assistance for you in this regard.) In this example, I come up with Flowers to Hide. Now look through the new artist’s friends list, and repeat five times. I come up with:
Now, take a test drive through everything that last artist has available for listening on demand. Happy surfing…
(By the way, my favorite of all these new bands is Flowers to Hide.)
I’ll corroborate my fellow MySpace musico-tourist’s assertion that it was a freaky fluke. I might even go so far as to say that it was serendipitous synchronicity.
My favorite of the 6 is fin fang foom, especially their description of their own music: “uniformly bleak, but always seems to portend redemption around the corner.”