Re: Heirs to Stereolab
I guess I meant more in a cultural sense than in an economic sense.
I feel like critics, magazines, etc, don't have as much pull as they used to, so we're faced with 100 albums, 15 of which we might like, but we don't even know about them because they're just released into a vacuum. Sure, that's always existed to some degree, but I see more and more friends who put out amazing music getting little to no gains even when they get "coverage."
I mean, I feel like even Pitchfork couldn't break a band right now like they broke Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
Oh, and also, I don't think there are any heirs to Stereolab just yet. And I don't think those heirs would necessarily be producing music similar to theirs either.