Best Indie Albums of 2013

http://portable.tv/music/post/the-best-indie-albums-of-2013-you-arent-hearing-on-mainstream-radio/?slide=1#4

This was a website I happened to stumble upon this week while researching for a paper I'm going to be writing on mainstream music versus the alternative. Often times when confronted by various forms of media whether it's the TV, radio, news, magazines, etc. I feel as if the creativity in music these days is dead and lost; as if we're in a musical drought and it all got soaked down good into the dirt or slurped up by the sun and the clouds. And it makes me very, very sad. Because really, songs about partying are only fun some times. And songs about sex are only catchy until you hear the lyrics one too many times. And on top of that, those songs are played over and over again at restaurants when you're eating a burrito trying to talk with your friends or in public restrooms when you just want some peace and quiet by yourself in that little stall or in the car, on all three of the big radio stations in town at the exact same time. So not only are you hearing their same words so often that you can have that song memorized without even trying, but then of course, you have to multiply that feeling of monotony and the boring, bland, sameness by like 100 because out of the like 15 artists that are supposedly in right now, no one says anything revolutionary or exciting. It's like coloring in a coloring book as a child and only using various shades of beige and tan and white. When everyone is basically saying the same thing over and over again, it starts to sound like they're really saying nothing at all. Where's the color? Where's the life?

...But then, I find websites like this and though I may not necessarily feel attached to every song on this list, at least it's different. At least they're trying. At least they still care about their art and not just their fame.