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I’d really love to analyze the way my musical tastes have changed over the years, similarly to the way I analyzed how my writing changed over the years. Because I’d like to know how I missed the exact day that indie music, something I’d loved for years, began to bore me to the point where I can’t stand it these days.

Not that I haven’t tried. I’ll get on hypem, or listen to some recommendations on last.fm, but nothing on there that can be classified as “indie rock” thrills me anymore. Even newer albums by bands I used to love don’t do it for me at all (see: American Analog Set, Death Cab, Say Hi to Your Mom, Franz Ferdinand). And I can’t even say that because I play in a post-rock band, I’m now stuck in a post-rock bubble, because I barely listen to post-rock as it is - and the stuff I do listen to has very little to do with “rock”.

Granted, I do not keep up with new music nearly as much as I used to in the days I was a music writer. But nonetheless, most of the “bigger” indie bands make it to my ears one way or another, and none of those linger there.

So am I just missing these things? Or are the days of good, original indie rock over? Or have I become more demanding in my musical tastes? I’d really like to know.