we're at a point in the life of the music industry at which a continually flowing stream of musicians hit a nerve with many on a daily scale. they riptide through the masses and travel far places without even leaving their home countries in many cases. everywhere, someone's heard of them and waiting for them to come to their town. the go! team should not need introduction at this moment, but they have yet to rock north american and therefore must be explained. things are generally taken too seriously in music, but the go! team defy the standard attitudes: neither "we're too bore to care" nor "wow, we're artsy" nor "we sound like this band meets this band while weilding a knife in bowie's dead family's graveyard" need apply to the go! team they're into fun, and that's their thing, so good for them, let's keep it coming.

deep dark united hit the scene from another angle altogether, but occupy the same kind of space. quite a number of bands could take some lessons from them. for one, music can be strange and fun at the same time, nor does it have to be danceable. it simply requires listening ears and seeing eyes. as much as we love to see fashion and culture as a part of music, the end result is how the song makes us feel. without the piece, there's nothing but style.

the fever has caught on for a lot of crowds and all these little "scenes" are popping up in all kindsa places. this, however, can be a slightly dangerous time. this crazy "indie" music will soon see some kind of saturation in the near future that will gnaw at its core (if we haven't already). there's nothing wrong with any of this, as at them moment it's totally containable. the abundance of groups does make for an overall above average health level amongst groups in the world of performed music. influences keep growing. each day is a new achievement in the recognition of culture as a vital form of life. but i can see that sometime soon, this little "indie" thing that blw up so big might have to readjust its course before it falls into the ocean.

my hope is that people like kaki king spearhead the moments of change in the coming years. this woman is gonna put a lot of people in business. she's already appeared on NPR and the cover an acoustic guitar mag you could easily find at the airport or 7-11, so a lot of people have at least glanced a her name.