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There are a few double (and triple) ups – the first was because Rough Trade gave me free tickets to see Passion Pit, the others were because I’d run out of days and had other songs in mind. So on to the music…I picked a new song every day, on the day. I finally feel like I care about music again, and not in the snarky-about-what-SPIN-says way (my seemingly lifelong subscription to SPIN finally came to an end in late 2008, which has been a blessing in disguise). For example, I really like Foals now, and I had never bothered to listen to them…independently of ABM, and despite the rally to save Radio 6, BBC’s best digital radio station, I’ve rediscovered NPR’s podcasts, which are amazing, and which I would highly recommend to everyone. While there were a lot of songs this month that I’ve known for years and years, part of the fun was trying to think of a new track every day and hunting down music by bands I’ve never really listened to before.
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I still do, and a few of their tracks are in the 10 most-listened-to-tracks on my iTunes. Then I bought tickets to see them, and you know what? I loved them. For example, I DID hear of White Rabbits ages ago, but paid them no attention until they were on Lauren Laverne’s Radio 6 show in late January. That’s one of the sad effects of the decline of radio and rise in music-blogging – it’s easier to read about than to hear new music, and I fell into stride with that and listened to 10 year-old Blur songs on repeat. I fell in love with music around the same time I picked up a camera, but for years and years I’ve been reading about new bands but not listening to them. The other reason is that it’s gotten me back into listening to new music, and telling everyone else about it. Hence this blog, to say what I wanted to say all month about these songs all in one place. Almost no one follows Blip, and with Facebook I could get a bit more text, but Facebook is so overloaded with updates that a lot went unnoticed, I’m sure. That was less successful, in my mind – with a song title, track link, and #animalbandmonth tag, there was little else to fill in a tweet. This was an excuse to write again, but to try to constrain it to micro-blogging. I love blogging – personal, editorial, whatever – I have a lot to say and want people to be interested in it, but I’ve let it, and writing in general, fall to the side for everything else I do (I have 4 jobs, and I’m supposedly an artist on top of that).
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It’s been a really good month for me for two reasons. With March 1st fast approaching, and with it not only the “Rabbit Rabbit” first of the month superstition, but also the old saying that March goes “in like a lion and out like a lamb”, Animal Band Month was born. And over the subsequent days, when I was excited to have discovered some new music by a band whose name I heard many times, but not really listened to, I wanted an excuse to recommend a song. However, after the White Rabbits gig in February, when we were talking about Grizzly Bear and Animal Collective, the trend was brought up yet again. I’m not claiming to be the first person out there to notice a trend in animal-related band names it’s been going on for years, and with the ease with which bands can gain some notice and attention these days, and it’s more common to hear more band names thrown around all the time.
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ANIMAL BAND MONTH: the Complete Collection