Posts Tagged ‘ Music ’
If the 80s and 90s saw music fragmenting into hundreds of tiny subcultures the 00s offered a way out – in part by destroying the very music industry machinery that encouraged such fragmentation. File sharing may have killed music but it also saved it by letting people hear thousands of songs they never would have [ READ MORE ]
So the 00’s come to an end with a whimper, not a bang. These 25 albums were all great but I’d be lying if I told you that there was another 25 I was anguished about leaving off the list. Even so Dylan, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Raekwon, Monsters of Folk, Talbot Tagora and M. [ READ MORE ]
Overheard on the way out of Roseland last night: “That show reminded me of that time I was in a car crash and I almost died…” OK, so, not your typical Jonas Brothers show. In fact it was the long wished-for re-union of My Bloody Valentine, British godfathers of the shoegazer genre who both defined [ READ MORE ]
Continuing with our best of 1978, here’s the best music of the year all in a convenient playlist for your pleasure. It’s on random so just press play to enjoy the punk, pop, disco and funk that made the Carter years so damn special. [ READ MORE ]
An Archival Spelunk by Noah Mallin (If the vids show up as unavailable, hit refresh in your browser — it’s just the YouTube demons getting fresh) The late 70s and early 80s were confusing and disturbing times for many in the music industry. For some of the great titans of rock and many of the little titanettes [ READ MORE ]