Adam Pfleider's Blog Entry

Garden Window definitely made my 2011 a lot louder.

This was a lot vaguer than I expected. I can't think of five things, but one thing that really stood out to me this year(and I'm probably 5 years late, as usual) was the fact that a lot of bands aren't even trying to sound like anything but their parent's music anymore. Fitz and the Tantrums are right on par with The Mamas and Papas. Fucked Up (while hardly your parent's music) play hard 3-chord punk rock that sounds exciting and familiar at the same time. I put on U.S Royalty's Mirrors right after America's Greatest Hits and I could barely tell the difference, even in production value. It's almost like the collective music scene is starting to give a solid shout-out to the music that got them here in the first place, and as someone who's never been huge into oldies or 60's AM radio or what have you, I find it pretty cool to see.