So, how about that totally inept municipal response to last week's blizzard. I feel no need to pile on Mayor 3-term Whine-o-tone. I'm more interested in how it may foretell a future of collapsed infrastructure and a starved government's inability to get anything together. I doubt we're anywhere near that, but it wasn't too long ago that this city did seem on the verge of [insert favorite urban apocalyptic metaphor]. Which takes me to visions of Ed Koch and songs like this. Lest you think 2011 will be all about silver mornings and leotard jams, SB intends to keep the [...]
The dystopian story of our middle-class lives with an amazing harsh noise drop at 1min 15secs.
Auntie showed a more than decent documentary about synth music's beginnings in depressing 70s Britain last night. The Sheffield bands along with Throbbing Gristle in London existed primarily as a reaction to the staleness of punk, musically at least. It reminded me in many ways of what was happening in New York amongst a troupe of nihilists and deconstructionists (aka the No Wave scene) at about the same time . The main difference, paricularly with Phil Oakey, was No Wavers completely rejected any idea of success or careerism, back then [...]
So, what is No Wave? The name came about as reaction to the term New Wave. At the tail end of the 70's the record industry was trying to rebrand punk & labeled the poppier bands that came in the aftermath of Punk as New Wave. The No Wave bands wanted to reject this poppier side but they also felt no affinity to Punk. At the time, Lydia Lunch (the queen of No Wave?) bemoaned how Punk was just sped up Chuck Berry riffs & it is true that if you listen to most (but not all!) punk [...]
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