Where We Drifted To: Independent Music in an Age That Stays Home

We live in a century where every answer sits a few taps away, yet people feel further apart than ever. The age of information was meant to pull us closer, meant to make life richer, meant to give us fuller lives. Instead, it bloated the world with noise and carved out a new form of isolation that slips into our bones before we even notice. Music still offers a channel for connection, but not in the way it once did, not in the way that carried entire subcultures into the night. People are going out less. People are flinching at the cost of everything. Connection has become something you schedule or ration between bouts of burnout, not something that rushes out of you on a Friday night when you know your favourite dive bar will be packed with familiar silhouettes. There is always talk of post-COVID recovery, as if recovery is something you can plant, water, and wait for. What that talk misses is the shift in collective mentality, the tilt in the cultural axis. Things are technically open, yes, but the centre of gravity moved. The Social Slip: How the World Drifted Out of Reach There was a point, […]

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