essay series<\/a> for the Vault, noting that it was among this climate that Christopher Thelen started this site. Through that year-by-year series, I touched on the biggest albums of each particular year, both critically and commercially, to paint a very broad overview of 1963-1999, the years that albums were really a driving force (as opposed to 45 RPM singles in the late \u201850s and digital singles from 2000 forward). <\/p>\nThose dual philosophies \u2013 album as art form, and breadth of genres \u2013 are what I have always admired about the Vault. It\u2019s what drew me to the site in 2004 and, after a brief hiatus, back to the site in 2012. You will read elsewhere about the history of the site and its day-to-day operations and philosophies, so I won\u2019t expand too much on that here. Suffice it to say I have been proud to be part of this family for more than a decade.<\/p>\n
Much like my high school years noted above, every day was full of a large variety of music if you cared to seek it out. The Vault embodies this philosophy each day. You never know what to expect. Will David Bowling cover a bluegrass album tomorrow from a 1960s band alongside my review of the new Metallica disc? Will Jason Warburg write about a thrilling barely-discovered indie band alongside Pete Crigler\u2019s review of a great \u201880s alt-rock album? Or is this the day that you read about a great folk album reviewed by Ludwik Wodka and then flip over to Tom Haugen\u2019s review of an electro-pop disc of the type you hear in a Starbucks?<\/p>\n
You just don\u2019t know. Hell, I don\u2019t even know. Our writers follow their muses. We stay current on many fronts, keeping pace with your larger outfits like Rolling Stone<\/i> and Consequence Of Sound, but we don\u2019t clog up your page with ads and we sure as hell don\u2019t condescend to you or make you feel inferior because you like \u201880s arena rock or \u201890s pop or Dierks Bentley. We simply strive to cover as many genres as possible, as many albums (not singles) as possible, twice a day every day for 20 years.<\/p>\n
The final beauty of this approach is its philosophy of discovery. If you mainly listen to classic rock, that\u2019s great. Music is subjective \u2013 like all art \u2013 and what you like is personal. But you may be missing out on something you will really enjoy just because it doesn\u2019t get played on the radio or covered on your larger Web sites or appear in your iTunes Hot Download folder (or whatever it\u2019s called). I have been turned on to so many artists that I never would have heard about otherwise since discovering the Vault, and I suspect many of you readers have, too.<\/p>\n
Artists will come and go, of course. Genres will surge and fade. But as long as there are albums, the Vault will endure. It\u2019s what we do.<\/p>\n
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Musical fads come and go, always have, always will. But the Vault endures.<\/p>\n