
At a time when we’re constantly being made aware of how rock and roll is dead and musicians are trading brick-and-mortar instruments for synthesizers when they should be recording solely in analogue, it’s reassuring to see not just one, but two very different bands who exemplify the changing—and not at all for the worse—face of rock and roll. Last night, “chillwave” associates Small Black shared the stage with glam-rock nugazers The Horrors at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, and my faith in contemporary rock and roll was restored. For a band that [...]