A lot of new music came out in 2009.  You probably missed some of it, I certainly did.  I wanted to mention some of it.  Specifically I wanted to mention the new music because I noticed a pattern in virtually all of it.  Every new album is “inspired”.  Not every song, but at least a couple songs on each album relate to the changes the world is going through right now.  You feel it, you see it, you sense it.  You can’t quite put your finger on what it is, but you have your speculation.  So do the musicians.  Even the poppy ones are themed.  Take the intro for the Black Eyed Peas new album “The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies):”

“Welcome to the end.  Tonight, there is nothing to fear.  Everything around you is changing, nothing stays the same.  This version of myself is not permenant. Tomorrow I will be different.  The energy never dies.  Energy cannot be destroyed.  What we create.  It always is and it always will be.  This is the end and the beginning.  Forever, infinite.  Welcome.”

Below are the artists with new 2009 albums I’m listening to:
Alice in Chains
Anti-Flag
Avril Lavigne
Beardfish
Black Eyed Peas
Brand New
Chris Cornell
Cosmic Gate
Courtney Love
Depeche Mode
Diana Krall
Dolores O’Riordan
Eels
Eminem
Europe
Faith No More
Fastball
Filter
Free Spirit
Green Day
Hurt
Infected Mushroom
IQ
Jeff Buckly
KISS
KMFDM
Lily Allen
Mika
Miles Davis
Moby
Morrisey
Mr. Big
Muse
Neil Young
Our Lady Peace
Paramore
Placebo
Porcupine Tree
Prodigal Earth
Revolution Renissance
St. Vincent
Sufjan  Stevens
The Answer
The Decemberists
The Fray
The Mars Volta
The Prodigy
White Rabbits
Yeah Yeah Yeah’s

I haven’t listened to all of this stuff yet, but I have bolded the ones that I have and they are all pretty good.  Their perspectives on what to do about it are mixed, but I think they will all serve as muses for the rest of us and I highly recommend you find yourself some 2009 albums.