Blog: Merry Swankster

I'm a bit too consumed at the moment to switch gears into serious anthropology mode, so you'll forgive me for diverting Retro this week back towards Friday's Neon Lights show... Bands are often celebrated for drawing on disparate influences. And sure, every now and again you get a true omnivorous savant like M.I.A. who digests the zeitgeist as a whole and molds it into a cohesive aesthetic, but more often than not, it just turns into a muddled mess. Like I distrust people who claim they like "everything," bands who don't know what [...]

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