Blog: I Rock Cleveland

Rockism should be dead by now. The perceived slight, that critics beat down other forms of music for the sake of the purer, more real form of Rock 'N' Roll, serves little purpose in an age where no genre has an upper hand. The democratization of music, and music criticism, which has taken place since the turn of the Century, when coupled with the flattening of the old music business, has ensured as much. We now live in an age of specialization, and one of tribes, where the success and validity of one form of music does not come at [...]