christopherotto (cotto1@gl.umbc.edu)
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 07:42:38 -0800
> 3) call '99 the year of the "house music revival"
when was the first house era?
> The way trends pop up and die off is so disgusting
> because they're a complete fabrication by publications
> like this. Magazines of this calibre never have
> existed to celebrate music or any of the joy it brings,
> only to shout about what's currently (and thus definitely
> not permanently) cool. I could care less about being
> "commercial" vs. being "indie", who cares if Spin is
> "commercial", it's irrelevant: it's not about the music.
wordemup. my favourite parts were:
1. their wholsale appropriation of design style from the face the other year
2. "the big beat invasion"
4. the fashion spread about bboying that looked like it was video grabbed
from beat street
also the articles that talk about modest mouse as if they were part of
fluxus or something are a little hard to look at- it is kind of hard to find
a balnce though in music writng between media theory type stuff and saying
thing slike " this shit is dope" but when it works it is great
the face, surface, urb, and xlr8r have some decent stuff sometimes on this
tip.
christopherotto
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> Jonathan
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