Brooks: “Evidently the disc jockey, or deeee JAY, places a turntable on either side of him or herself and proceeds to syncopate the revolving discs rhythmically…” David Brooks, Bush lover (of the W. variety) and all around low-watt bulb, deigned to descend from his silver cloud and offer his predigested opinion on The State of [...]
This weeks indie-rock controversy continues to snowball (see my original post here) — Yes it’s Sasha Frere-Jones’ Molotov cocktail of a New Yorker article (and blog posting and podcast — can a video game be far behind?) suggesting that indie rock has eradicated all traces of “black” musical forms. Now comes Carl “not the Beach [...]
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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