The Random Gush

Altrok.com's been around a few years now, and has generally spent a lot of time and verbiage looking at big pictures - like "The music industry is corrupt" or "The radio industry is corrupt" or "Congress is full of uninformed politicians easily led by the corrupt music and radio industries into passing laws that are against the interests of almost all of the people that voted for them."

But what we haven't done a lot of is tell you what we like. Musically, that is. I mean, we give you names and songs, but after a while that just sort of blurs into a grey space, when the fact of the matter is that we play music that really excites us.

So rather than the big picture, it probably makes more sense to post a lot of little pictures, more often. Since there's a pile of songs that excites us every week, we'll try to take the time to tell you why they excite us. And while that's probably just more dancing about architecture (and, full provenance given, that line was first told to me by Peter Buck, and he acknowledged he was quoting Martin Mull) it appears that we might actually like dancing about architecture.

When theres a new big picture to bring into focus, we'll do that. Remember, we were the ones who told you, back in early 2001, that portable MP3 was going to replace radio, and radio was going to respond poorly by trying to emulate portable MP3 players. The concept of an "iPod" didn't even exist back then, so there's no reason not to suspect we'll try to keep you ahead of other concepts that don't yet exist.

But we'll take a bit more time to gush about the music, m'kay?