warren ellis takes a somewhat scathing look at the state of pop music today. his comments on things like american idol seem dead on(and don't even get me started on things like those morons chip and reichen(and their idoiotic worshippers) or the stupidity of terms like meterosexual(a term that reinforces old stereotypes that all gay men are good dressers and that straight men can't possibly be good dressers)).

his criticism of bands like the vines makes me think of the fact that they are being pushed on television here much in the same way that linkin park and avril lavigne were in the past. maybe it's just me, but i tend to be rather suspect of bands being pushed by major labels on television.

it does often seem that there isn't much good new music being made, but it's there. you just have to look a little harder. i'm thinking in particular of the siesta label which has brought us lots of good music, or the lo-fi sounds of the pancakes from hong kong, or bands like don tiki, tipsy, twink, not to mention momus or sketch show. via die puny humans.