I figured I wouldn't slice up the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s. Mainly because my taste has shrunken to a very small, targeted set of bands/artists. For the most part, I listen to older stuff, which isn't unusual for people my age. I've become so cliche.
Going into the 2000s, there were a handful of bands I was getting into, much of it outside of the mainstream, even as some of them became mainstream, if only for a minute. I enjoyed some "emo" bands in the early 2000s, but for the most part, I haven't paid any attention to trends or anything.
Over the past 30 years, I've attached myself to a few key bands and endlessly listened to them, such as Muse, Interpol and Placebo, my "big" 3. I love Ryan Adams, Jason Isbell and some random Americana, but other than that, there isn't much else I've sought to learn more about. The past decade or so, I've greatly increased my concert going, but even then, the vast majority are older acts I never got to see. One would think that, as my kids grew older, I'd have more time to listen and explore, but while I might have more time, I don't have more interest.
I get a wild hair every now and then and dive into Frightened Rabbit, Taylor Swift, The National, Boygenius, Breaking Benjamin, Queens of the Stone Age, Ghost, Paramore and Against Me, but it usually doesn't go beyond that. The industry is such a disappointment. I subscribe to Apple Music just because I have a family plan for all my cloud storage, Apple TV, etc., but other than that, I have no interest in things like Spotify, Pandora, etc. I still like buying music, although that is getting harder to do, unless I want vinyl, which I do not.
So, for my boys, in what time I have left, I've probably reached my peak interest in exploring new music, which is a sad thing to say since it was such an important part of my life from age 6 to 25. Every once in a while, I will find something new, but things have become too difficult to find, at least for me. I've had to rely on friends to tell me about bands, and even those are hit and miss, especially considering how so many bands sound alike. Wow, could that have sounded more old man?
I've pretty much hit the brick wall with all the older bands I want to see, aside from Toto and Men at Work I plan to see in August. I'd still love to see Depeche Mode and Erasure. Some of the newer stuff I'm still into I'm able to see live once in a blue moon since smaller acts are finding it harder to tour. At this writing, I'm planning on seeing Perfume Genius tomorrow night, which has been an artist I've wanted to see for a decade. Other than those two shows, my list this year doesn't seem like it's going to be very much longer, which makes me a little sad. But..such is life, I guess. All good things must end...or at least slow down. Maybe it's normal to slow down and become more specific in what one will allow the time to allow for entertaining, but it's just so different from earlier in my life. It feels weird.
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