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The next big thing for another big music year
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Brian Washburn
Issue date: 1/14/08 Section: Life & Style
Although many music aficionados will wait for their favorite artist to release new music, other music buffs will search to the end of the earth to find what is going to be labeled as 2008's "next big thing."
Although you cannot directly pick the next band to infest local radio stations and shoot up the charts, there are a few I am willing to wage will have their shot at making it happen.
Rock band Say Anything will take its step into the music limelight this year. Though they have achieved much underground success and acclaim, not much has been mentioned in the mainstream. Lead singer Max Bemis and company will take their unique blend of rock music and unique, poetic and often weird lyrics from their 2007 released double album "In Defense of the Genre" to national success in the next year.
Other bands looking for a breakthrough this year will be pop-punk act All Time Low, who will look to follow in the footsteps of scene builders Fall Out Boy and Paramore, as well as rock band Jet Lag Gemini, who will release their debut album Fire the Cannons Jan. 22. Another little secret gem to look out for in 2008 will be the Postal Service-esque, electronic pop act PlayRadioPlay!, whose debut will surface early this year.
Everybody should brace themselves. The pop rock, dance-beat music scene will probably not die in 2008. Though some might wish for this year to be the year of the indie music scene or pray for the long shot gamble that screaming, and maybe even hardcore and metal, might actually break through into mainstream America, unfortunately it probably will not happen. But then again, no one expected a part indie, part hip-hop, part god-knows-what else band like Gym Class Heroes would grab the nation with a chokehold in 2007.
More music will be sure to sky rocket to success and acclaim this year, but those are just a few to latch on to and place in your back pocket to be able to brag to your friends later this year about listening to them before they became "cool." After all, that is what the music industry has turned into, branding your favorite bands to have an argument with your friends later over which bands you loved before they were "cool."
Although you cannot directly pick the next band to infest local radio stations and shoot up the charts, there are a few I am willing to wage will have their shot at making it happen.
Rock band Say Anything will take its step into the music limelight this year. Though they have achieved much underground success and acclaim, not much has been mentioned in the mainstream. Lead singer Max Bemis and company will take their unique blend of rock music and unique, poetic and often weird lyrics from their 2007 released double album "In Defense of the Genre" to national success in the next year.
Other bands looking for a breakthrough this year will be pop-punk act All Time Low, who will look to follow in the footsteps of scene builders Fall Out Boy and Paramore, as well as rock band Jet Lag Gemini, who will release their debut album Fire the Cannons Jan. 22. Another little secret gem to look out for in 2008 will be the Postal Service-esque, electronic pop act PlayRadioPlay!, whose debut will surface early this year.
Everybody should brace themselves. The pop rock, dance-beat music scene will probably not die in 2008. Though some might wish for this year to be the year of the indie music scene or pray for the long shot gamble that screaming, and maybe even hardcore and metal, might actually break through into mainstream America, unfortunately it probably will not happen. But then again, no one expected a part indie, part hip-hop, part god-knows-what else band like Gym Class Heroes would grab the nation with a chokehold in 2007.
More music will be sure to sky rocket to success and acclaim this year, but those are just a few to latch on to and place in your back pocket to be able to brag to your friends later this year about listening to them before they became "cool." After all, that is what the music industry has turned into, branding your favorite bands to have an argument with your friends later over which bands you loved before they were "cool."
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katie
posted 1/14/08 @ 10:07 PM CST
DO NOT CALL THE ! OBNOXIOUS...as a real Panic fan i still love ! and im pretty sure almost all the longtime fans can back me up on that one...Panic's music didn't make my ears bleed nd they are fun to watch live and on tv. (Continued…)
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