Not My Space Leads to Feel Good Music.

Racking up a million friends on Myspace is not such a huge achievement anymore. You no longer have to be a cute Asian girl with a bisexual persuasion, have a witty blog or even a decent profile picture. All you have to do is alter your settings to allow any Joe Schmo with an email account to add you. And they will come! As a test we changed the privacy settings on our personal page and poof! Within 3 days we had 87 new friend request ( I maybe, kinda think, I might have actually known ONE of the requesters). Anywho, sadly Myspace has become web wasteland. No longer can start up brands or bands claim a web presence based on a purported "million friends" following. I personally cant find anything even interesting on Myspace (to think I almost got canned a few years ago for my Myspace addiction!). For many formerly loyal users, Myspace has turned into a loud, glaring commercial with everybody and their mama selling some thing, some band, some idea or some party!
So we hardly visit our Myspace page anymore. It seems the once indestructible power it once held is no more. Even for declared Internet junkies that thing has gotten just a bit to impersonal.


A part of what made Myspace so appealing was its ability to connect real people to one another. Connecting with old friends or making new friends kind of made you feel like an insider, someone in the know with direct access to the personal (sort of) lives of the individuals in your que. I wont get all nostalgic on you ( who has the time these days) but, to scratch our social networking itch we've switched over to Facebook with a promise to be extremely selective about who we let get down with our get -least we have to start another page under our OTHER alias, like some less than A list celebrity.

Anyway all of the above is just a long ass way of telling a short ass story about this band who despite our very selective approach to adding only people we know and sort of know - somehow found its way on our Facebook friends list and sent us a very random link to their music.

We liked it. So here it goes.





Who knew South Africa had so much Detroit Back Packer-esque swagger?