What happened to our music?

It's 2:41 pm. and I'm listening to my MySpace profile song, "Sober" by Kelly Clarkson. Gosh, she is so freaking talented! Her new album, "My December" is such a great material and it literally tanked in the music charts. And that makes me wonder what has the music industry made with our good artists?

Yesterday the nomination for the MTV Video Music Awards were announced, and of course Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Rihanna, Nelly Furtado, Fergie and all of those folks got tons of nominations.. It seems that you only need to have catchy hook to become a multi platinum-selling artist. "Umbrella, ella, ella, e, e,e", "To the left, to the left", "I'm bringing the sexy back", and of course the super famous and incredibily annoying "G - L - A - M - O -R -O - U-S" of Fergie's song.

Please lets forget for a second the "Lean like a Cholo" and focus on some great music for me right now:

Peter, Bjorn and John: My favorite band in ages!! You may have heard the song "Young Folks", literally everywhere, but seriously, the whole "Writer's Block" album is amazing. I had the wonderful opportunity to see them in concert at the House of Blues in Downtown last week and it was clearly one of the highlights of my summer. They're the epitome of what rock stars should be, and their John is a tremendous guitar player!! Please check their songs out!

Augustana: I first heard the song "Boston" a while ago and later I found it again in my friend Jose's MySpace, and since then I've been a fan of them.. All of their album it's so great and I think I'm going to go see them at Street Scene next month. I can't wait!!

Other really good stuff right now: Plain White T-Shirts, Regina Spektor, Incubus' latest album, mexican electro-pop band Belanova and... the return of Soda Stereo!!! A hugely popular band from Argentina that is getting back together for a mini tour, they'll be in LA soon.. I'm going to see what I can do about it...

Aye, enough with my ramblings, read ya guys later!