The Middle East

Posted: April 21st, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Articles About Music | Tags: , , , , , | 3 Comments »

The title may be misleading because this has much more to do with Australia than the near East, but hang with me for a second.

So, I was down under a few weeks ago and was pleased to find the average Aussie’s taste in music superior to that of our own. During a party I found myself listening to Miike Snow and Passion Pit instead of Miley Cyrus and Ke$ha. It nearly brought me to tears. Along my trek (Dare I call it a walkabout?), I met a few music enthusiasts, one of whom I’m still trading suggestions with. We’ve gone through a handful of artists, my favorite of whom has been The Middle East. Now you see the title wasn’t all for naught.

The Middle East is a nice folksy band with a little perkier tempo than most. They just played at Coachella (which I despise for the record), so I assume they are picking up steam. They’re currently working on some new stuff which should come out soon, but for a temporary sample check out this music video.

Bleed on!

Bradley

3 Comments on “The Middle East”

  1. 1 Mitch said at 2:11 pm on April 21st, 2010:

    I think most other countries have better tastes in music than the US. I used to periodically check the UK top 100 songs and albums. It’s led me to a lot of good bands, some even becoming quite popular on this side of the pond awhile later.

  2. 2 rob said at 3:47 am on April 22nd, 2010:

    how come you don’t like coachella? come over to europe for some festivals!

  3. 3 Bradley said at 5:54 pm on April 25th, 2010:

    To be clear, I love some festivals – especially SxSW. My thing with Coachella is that I live in LA and it sucks the front half of the year dry of those “Coachella” bands playing another show in the LA area. LA is big enough to attract all those bands anyway. Also, I would way rather watch any one or two of those bands play a show at El Rey theatre than at a big festival…but I guess I can’t have it all.