NPR Music's 25 Favorite Albums Of 2012 (So Far)
Obviously some good ones in here, so say your reviews. Great minds!
NPR
Like/Dislike
“You can’t explain why you like something. The bigger question for me was always to the people asking me to explain. [I’d say], ‘Why don’t you want to hear this?’ I love finding out why people don’t love things. And if you ask people why they don’t like things, particularly when they get into this sort of culture box, you find out that they’re not liking things because of what people are going to think about them, and not because of what the things actually sound like.”—
Stew, on how people like music or don’t like music because they think other people think they should like or dislike it.
This can’t be helped, but it is insightful and useful for bearing-in-mind.
How The Internet Transformed The American Rave Scene
Props to oldmanasante for linking this up!
