I love discovering trends and genres tha...

I love discovering trends and genres that I have previously been completely blind and ignorant to. The most recent discovery that I have made, now don't laugh, is SteamPunk.Yes, Steam put right there next to the word Punk, which gives us Steampunk. For those of you who aren't aware of what Steampunk is here is a short definition:

Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.

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Music's gone mainstream and it's killing the die-hard listener

I, for one, am not fond of maitstream music. It's nice and I can recognise the value of it when I'm at a club or with friends or something froo-froo like that.But it is really pissing me off lately that radio stations have finally seen the light and recognised under-ground rock, pop, funk, heavy metal, hip-hop, emo, alternative or any other genre. Why I am pissed off at the "new discovery" by the radio stations is because radion stations have a tendancy to kill a song long before it deserves to be killed.Why is it necessary for stations to play 30 seconds to mars every hour on the hour? Hell, why is it necessary for radio's to play them at all. They were mine. Now they are dead because the radio killed them.

"Video killed the radio star"

- Methinks not. Here's my version:

"Radio killed the underground star"

And to be honest, radio is killing the die-hard listener. I get upset when a hear a tiny tot of twelve singing the tune of a Papa Roach song. They are not mainstream.Don't get me wrong, I grasp the concept of mainstream equalling money for the band, but many of the bands I love have my money and I paid for them to be mine. Not some tiny-bopper-pimple-faced-wanna-be-gothchild.Rant Over.