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 [...]
As The New York Times reports today (registration required) BET has a new set of animated promotions that bring to mind MTV in it’s late 80′s heyday of mixing music video programming with self-referential and sometimes even avant-garde promos. The question being raised is whether the satire “Read a Book” is racist? I’ll let you [...]
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