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Crystal Stilts 10/27/13

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The L Magazine Interviews JB Townsend of Crystal Stilts

Jeff Klingman talked to JB about Crystal Stilts' new EP, their choice of cover songs, and music career.

The L: Where do you see the Brooklyn music scene going in the next five years? 

JB: I really don’t know. There’s always ups and downs with every place. There wasn’t a lot happening here ten years ago. Then there was a thousand bands that wanted to sound like the Strokes. Then everything got really hippied out, maybe six years ago--everything got really tribal and shit. It takes a little while to really know where things are going. Right now it’s pretty varied, it’s all over the place. There are indie bands that are trying to sound like Top 40 pop bands.

The L: We’re still in the relatively early days in the Internet era. We don’t really know yet how this music climate is going to play out in terms of bands forging a career. How do you go about making a continuing catalog of music?

JT: In the small world of indie music it’s kind of the same thing as number 1 records or Top 10 Billboard records. If you listen to them all together they all sound very similar. They all have one weird keyboard sound that everybody uses. Most bands that I like don’t really look to that. They kind of just play based on whatever their record collections are. Whatever they think sounds good. I think that holds more water.

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