VERMILLION, S.D. --Thursday I was in the Al Neuharth Media Center until 10:30 pm working on a speech article. Boring except for the awesome new music that kept me entertained.
During my writing blocks, I took the time to browse the music libraries on Myspace. I found that new music had been added or music was there that I never experienced.
The album from rock band Otep, The Ascension, released in late March, was available for browsers like me to listen to. A new sound and lyrics about the wrongs of the world blared in my ears and I liked it.
Also new-or new to me-was a song, Jezebel from Acid Bath. I thought the song was very good along with another song, Scram of the Butterfly. It had a crazy sound about death and masochism that I immediately enjoyed.
An album from Calla, Strength in Numbers released in February 2007 was another that I never heard before. Mellow vocals and static guitars made my long day at the media center lab more bearable.
When I took my earphones out, the room was dead quiet and I asked a fellow student, Neda Spotted Wolf, “How can you stand this quiet?”
“Well, it distracts me,” she replied.
Music is a big part of my life and I make it a hobby of mine to find new music whenever I can. I have to have it everywhere.