Hopefully The Start of Something Exciting

Hey Everyone!!!,
My Name is Phillip. Let me give you a little backround about myself. I'm 21 years old and I live in good old New York State (and no it's nothing like the city). I feel that every person on this earth is born with some sort of passion. Something that they can turn to no, matter what mood they are in, to escape everything and put their heart and soul into. For me, that one thing is without a doubt Modern Rock. Let me give you a little backround about why I have become such a big fan of Modern Rock. The first band I ever heard in my life was The Beatles. I was born and raised on Beatle songs and I will always have a place in my heart for that band because they are easily the best band that ever lived. My whole family was obsessed with them. Part of me always wanted to be different than my family though. I never was into liking the same things that everybody else liked because it just wasn't me to be like everybody else. So I started to look at other things to listen to. I had my Tom Petty phase. My Led Zepplin Phase. My Scorpions Phase. I even (really hate to say this) had a long phase where I listened to Rap music. One thing remained consistent through all of these phases, and that is the fact that I loved music and will always love music. Like with everything else, when you start to love something, you start to appreciate people who have talent in that field. My generation of people my age aren't exposed much to bands that actually have a lot of talent. All you see on TV are rap, and dance and pop songs. Rap is lyrically talented i guess but I'm sorry, there is no musical talent at all involved when all you do is talk on stage to a beat playing in the backround that you probably didn't even create. Pop music is very frustrating too because I feel like if you don't have the ability to write your own songs or even perform those songs live without lip singing to it, then you are not a talented musician and that songs shouldn't even belong to you. For years and years i've been watching people left and right become famous and not deserving it while bands with real talent stand by and don't get any recognition. I am a hardcore Modern Rock fan and I know a lot of talent that a lot of people don't know about. Now....I do not know every single local act of every town. But if a band has released an album on record withing the last 5 or 6 years then I probably know them. If I don't I'm relying on people to shed some light on some bands so I can talk about them and maybe give them some recognition too. I am going to be updating this blog very often. Whenever a new song comes out or I discover a new band that I feel is really good I'm going to talk about them. I really just want some bands to get recognized more than they do and I feel like creating this blog will help. I'm hoping this blog becomes almost like a community where people can help each other out to help make these bands household names. My tastes are pretty diverse. I like anything from Disturbed to The White Stripes to Jack Johnson. I love things that sound Old School like The Fratellis. and I love things that are Pure Modern like Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin. I even delve into some hardcore once in a while with American Head Charge or Atreyu, and I even have some very unique tastes like Family Force Five.