prefixmag (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Glenn Branca, New York underground prophet and famous curmudgeon, contributed an opinion piece to the New York Times yesterday, declaring music to be dead: "For more than half a century we’ve seen incredible advances in sound technology but very little if any advance in the quality of music. In this case the paradigm shift may not be a shift but a dead stop. Is it that people...
rickwebb.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
The End of Music – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com :p. WTF is this? I admire Glenn Branca. I have seen him perform and conduct many times and own several of his records, but this op ed is totally insane. Rock is dead? No one is interested in the future of music? Who is he hanging out with?
Lerterland (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
"We seem to be on the edge of a paradigm shift." Oh my, that sounds important. Let's read on and see what downtown composer and pretentious blowhard Glenn Branca has to say. "Orchestras are struggling to stay alive, rock has been relegated to the underground, jazz has stopped evolving and become a dead art..." Ok, let's stop there, because Branca, while affecting...
honey draper (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
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lost at e minor (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Beijing’s thriving music scene has no shortage of good bands, but few are as unabashedly innocent and giddy as Carsick Cars. Inspired by the blazing post-punk of Swell Maps, the aloof experimentalism of 90s shoegaze bands, and occasionally the discordance of Glenn Branca, Carsick Cars are equally influenced by the bands around them — PK-14, [...]
MBV (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Almanac is the new long-player from the duo of Brian Lightbody and Tom Asselin ( Lewis & Clarke ), aka Dragon Turtle , and it’s out today on La Société Expéditionnaire . Their style has been called “ambient-winter-calypso-space-folk,” and they’re influenced not only by “post-punk, krautrock, ambient/electronic, and dark Americana,” but also by the works of John Cale, Brian Eno, Ennio Morricone, Glenn...
