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“Pop always retroactively rescues unpop from the prison of its admirers.”
McKenzie Wark • Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twentieth-First Century
LAURIE ANDERSON, BIG SCIENCE Performance art made new wave rock and roll.
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
XTC, ENGLISH SETTLEMENT This band has been largely forgotten, but their gorgeous instrumentation tempered by edgy lyrics and a pastoral snarl made them my personal Beatles. The lead singer, Andy Partridge, had a nervous breakdown and swore he would never tour again, so the band holed up in some tiny bucolic English town, and their music became less
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Platforms, Creative Communities, and the Need for a Radical Reimagining - The Reboot
Tim Maughanthereboot.comKyle Chayka • Essay: The digital death of collecting
Putting the ‘vinyl revival’ in proper perspective - Music Business Worldwide
Music Business Worldwidemusicbusinessworldwide.com
In its peremptory reductiveness, it celebrates a hallucination of presence, of an unalterable permanence composed of incessant, frictionless operations. It belongs to the aftermath of a common life made into the object of technics.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Yash Bagal • A New Funnel for Music
His electrifying cover version of Joy Division’s ‘She’s Lost Control’