Greetings from Laurel Canyon!
Well, it’s that time. The Idelic Hour is a wrap for 2013. Looking back at this year it’s hard not to make a few observations.
Strange, but my first impression of 2013 has to be, “This was a long fucking year!” My god, I can sure use a bit of “A&R,” I mean “R&R”—ha!
I can’t say 2013 was a rad year for music but it didn’t suck either. I heard someone say Lorde was the best songwriter of this generation. Maybe it was the year music bloggers tired to made “chick music” cool?
My response is “good grief Charlie Brown!” Although the IH might have been one of the first onto Lorde, Chrurches, Wet, and the rest, we in “this Idelic canyon” prefer intelligent lyrics and psychedelia to experimental urban and blogger chick pop.
The biggest thing in music that happened to me in 2013 was Spotify. At times turning onto the program felt as groovy a smoking cocaine for the first time. I’m not sure how “subscription models” will affect the music fan, however. Let’s just hope there’s life after crack (or should I say free-base?)
In my mind I’d like to compare 2013 to 1963, a year when not much iconic music happened. Maybe we’re in for 1964 all over again? Wouldn’t be so bad? I’m looking forward to 2014, actually. It’s a wild future out there for us in music, so I’ll be charging forward. Please come with…
Have a warm and safe holiday season and may all your dreams come true in 2014.
For your holiday pleasure, rock on to these 20 bands who released cool vinyl in 2013: The National, Foxygen, Temples, Fidlar, Savages, Deerhunter, Arcade Fire, Queens Of The Stone Age, Mozes and The First Borns, POND, Kurt Vile, PAPA, Laura Marling, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Blitzen Trapper, Courtney Barnett, Ty Segall, Daughn Gibson, Grim Tower, Daft Punk
Love live vinyl, record stores, and The Idelic Hour!
The Idelic Hit of the Week:
Temples – Keep In The Dark
