We live in an era of blogs, tweets, aggregators, and Fox News. It's quite easy to exist in an ideological/cultural/sociological/psychographic bubble of your own making--one that entirely reinforces your existing systems of belief. That's why I start every morning with the Wall Street Journal.

I like new sounds. I only really like new sounds, however, when they are encased in a structure that propels them -- be it a folk music architecture of repetitive and/or shopworn patterns; composed music's cerebral, considered developments; or a dance music's tension and release model.