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 [...]
Joel Schumacher — “Did someone say batnipples?” What you won’t find online at the New Yorker magazine’s website but you will find between the dead treeskin pages of this weeks provocative issue on the arts is a terrific Adam Gopnik essay entitled “The Corrections.” Gopnik looks at the world of abridged books, what’s lost and [...]
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 [...]
Adam Gopnik weighs in with an excellent and thought-provoking piece on one of America’s most celebrated sci-fi writers. Gopnik Praises Philip K. Dick but also questions the level of reverence accorded to him by his adherents. His points about Dick’s weak characters are well taken, as are his admiration for Dick’s ideas. Gopnik also argues [...]
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