From: masoo	Date: January 18th, 2014 04:00 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Your relationship to new music can be a sign of all sorts of things. And indeed, those things might include a hardening of the heart, or a lapse into nostalgia. But those are not always or necessarily true. A combination of the presence of so much new music, and so little time to experience it, along with just simple things about how we change as we age ... all of those are equally convincing explanations, and they do not require a hard heart or a move towards comfort consumption. But I hear you. I can remember, during the height of my concert-going days (mid-70s to mid-80s) thinking I never wanted to reach the point where I didn't go to a gazillion shows. It was easy to think that back then ... concerts were among other things an escape from work, and I was young and thought nothing of sleeping overnight in line, or standing on a concrete floor for hours, or just banging violently against fellow moshers. The fact that I attend few concerts now, though, is less a case of my hardening heart, and more a case of my being 60 years old.

	From: bitterlawngnome	Date: January 18th, 2014 01:51 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Perhaps you need to go further back instead of forward. There's 100+ years of recorded music available now.

	From: mallorys_camera	Date: January 21st, 2014 01:07 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Best way to find new music is to hunt down the names of tracks and artists that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up when they're used as background music in TV or movies.