"What makes indie such an odd example of a subculture being sold back to the masses is that, in practice, its main selling point is its uncoolness. Its presence in an ad doesn’t imply rebelliousness like alternative-culture tropes were once meant to...It features mannered ingenuousness, an embrace of small moments, narrative randomness, situationally amusing but not hilarious character juxtapositions ... and unexplainable but nonetheless charming character traits,” he wrote. “Quirk takes not mattering very seriously.”
“To insist that underground music be snarly and abrasive is to subscribe to a hidebound cliché, which is ironic since the whole idea of the music is to dispense with hidebound clichés,” he says. “Underground music stands against and apart from mainstream culture in order to offer an antidote to it. In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. [...] But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene..."
is indie dead? by rachael maddux
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
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12/26/09
nothing can cure the soul but the senses
making mix cds for a long, long road...
my play-count tells me this was my favourite song of 09...i guess it was, i still think it's beautiful.
xoxo
photo by lars botten
12/20/09
scientific temperaments
intense. watch the video here.
these new puritans older tracks are still my default to work to... very much looking fwd to hearing more from hidden (released in jan)
11/27/09
what it dreamed, they made it true
in 1969 the 14yr old jerry levitan snuck into john lennon's hotel room...
the animated outcome of the chat they had some 40yrs later: (youtube)
kiss for peace or smile for peace or go to school for peace or don't go to school for peace whatever you do just do it for peace...its no good shouting on a street corner ' i want peace' and then beating up your mates
john lennon
listening to this tune
xoxo
the animated outcome of the chat they had some 40yrs later: (youtube)
kiss for peace or smile for peace or go to school for peace or don't go to school for peace whatever you do just do it for peace...its no good shouting on a street corner ' i want peace' and then beating up your mates
john lennon
listening to this tune
xoxo
11/11/09
10/30/09
i cannot repeat an emotion
hoping music video director dave ma makes an entire movie.
imagery this rich and stories this strong seem like a movie waiting to happen...
play his music videos here
read his dazed interview here
"you just focus on what you are trying to say and why it is important and you just do it. If you think too much about things then you just end up talking yourself out of doing them and the idea gets fucked up."
imagery this rich and stories this strong seem like a movie waiting to happen...
play his music videos here
read his dazed interview here
"you just focus on what you are trying to say and why it is important and you just do it. If you think too much about things then you just end up talking yourself out of doing them and the idea gets fucked up."
10/19/09
1/15/09
thanks, i won't have anything more.
4
walls
high ceilings
a window seat
inbuilt bookcases
lovely stairs of some sort
possibly a piece of suspension
and maybe some 'biscuit curtains'...
walls
high ceilings
a window seat
inbuilt bookcases
lovely stairs of some sort
possibly a piece of suspension
and maybe some 'biscuit curtains'...
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