Tuning Fork's comments about Wolf Parade and their current ubiquity on the blogosphere and indie music sites like Pitchfork stirred up something in me today. Not to be too dramatic, but I want to make the following commitment:

While there will be no promises and I don't want to paint myself into a corner, I've decided to make a list of bands I will not write about, for awhile at least. So even if the Arcade Fire play a secret show in my apartment, I won't say a word.

Why put limits on myself? Because I'm tired of reading about the same bands on every site and I'm tired of writing about these same exact acts. It's no longer very inspiring. I want the freedom to comment on anything I find inspiring, interesting, irritating or disgusting, but there is such a saturation of coverage about certain groups that I don't see the value in talking about them anymore.

Now, for that list:

The Arcade Fire/Wolf Parade
Broken Social Scene/Stars/Metric/Feist
Bloc Party
Bright Eyes
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Coldplay
Interpol/Editors
Death Cab For Cutie
The Rakes/The Cribs/Hard-Fi/We Are Scientists
White Stripes
Franz Ferdinand
Devendra Banhart
Sufjan Stevens
M.I.A.
Antony & the Johnsons/CocoRosie