Poor Rody Walker. The Protest the Hero frontman still believes in the transcendent power of music, but now that he knows what goes on behind the scenes, especially with the new wave of Internet-spawned bands, he's become depressed, disillusioned and discouraged. With any luck, such antipathy with result in another batch of devastating songs when the PTH finally return to the studio to record the follow-up to 2008's blazing Fortress. For now at least, we can hopefully do something about Walker's heavy metal blues by giving him the following guest blog to vent:

I don't understand music anymore, and I don't really care to. It seems to me the way to get a name for yourself in music was once traveling your ass off and playing as many shows as possible. It was good ol' fashion hard work, passed down from our father's father. That's the only way I've ever known to achieve even so much as a meager level of underground success. However, it would appear the up coming generation of lazy-no-good-soda-guzzling-gluttonous-crap-factories have an easier plan -- a plan that involves them sitting on their fat asses in their parents' computer rooms and achieving a much more significant level of success than I have ever known. Read more...