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Music: Sasha Frere-Jones Asks: "Why Can’t We All Just Get Along in 4/4 Time?"

Pavement: “Let’s try playing more ‘black’, fellas…” The article that’s been heating up the musical parts of Blogachusetts this week is Sasha Frere-Jones’ New Yorker piece entitled “A Paler Shade of White”. On the surface the argument appears to be a bold attack on a very early nineties music-crit trope: white people stole rock from [...]

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