Latest Article|September 3, 2020|Free
::Making Grown Men Cry Since 1992
8 min read
In my capacity as Alibi music editor, I regularly hear folks—young and old alike—bemoaning a lack of “good” new music. There’s the Baby Boomer rock aficionado for whom anything released after 1979 doesn’t measure up to Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. There’s the countrypolitan/old country acolyte, whose aural pantheon rejects any acts newer than George Jones. The act of falling in love with new music involves subjectivity aplenty. But it breaks my heart that anyone might fall asleep each night without the prospect of a sonic love affair—an aural meet cute, if you will—on the horizon. Read on for a quick-and-dirty intro to rekindling your passion for discovering new music.