The News Review:
- On the Block: Anarchy and Nostalgia
- Reminder: Pitchfork 500 NYC Party Pops Off Tonight!
- Chicago “Underground” Music that made it big!
- The Pitchfork 500
- The Koran punk rock and lots of questions
- Murmur (Deluxe Edition)
On the Block: Anarchy and Nostalgia
New York Timesnbsp;United Statesnbsp;
#8220;We#8217;ve sold punk material before #151; a T-shirt here a poster there#8221; said Simeon Lipman the head of Christie#8217;s pop culture department at a preview the day before the sale. #8220;This time around I wanted to explore the punk aesthetic. I love the music and the memorabilia itself is very very scarce. It has such a wonderful look to it. It#8217;s very visceral. #8221;That#8217;s certainly one way to describe a used hard-core T-shirt.
Reminder: Pitchfork 500 NYC Party Pops Off Tonight!
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with copies of the book for sale. No cover charge!Oh and in case you missed the last sixteen stories here’s the rundown on the book: This handy paperback chronologically explores Pitchfork’s 500 favorite songs from 1977-2006 constructing an alternate history of the past three decades of popular music– one that extends beyond the typical Baby Boomer-approved canon of the Clash Prince Public Enemy Nirvana Radiohead and Outkast. From art-rock and proto-punk godfathers such as Brian Eno Iggy Pop and David Bowie to today’s leading lights such as the Arcade Fire the White Stripes and Kanye West; from superstars to cult heroes; and from punk indie and pop to hip-hop electronic music and metal we’ve created the ultimate playlist. Interspersed throughout are sidebars on the most vital subgenres from electro to grime to riot grrrl along with pieces like “Career Killers: The Songs That Ended It All” and “Runaway Trainwrecks: The Post-Grunge Nadir. And it sure would make for a nice holiday gift hint hint. The book is available in your friendly neighborhood bookstore right now.
Chicago “Underground” Music that made it big!
Examiner.comnbsp;
Before I had mono in high school I had no clue who Kanye was but after 2 straight weeks of watching MTV (when they sometimes played music videos shocking I know) and seeing his video quot;Through the Wirequot; about a bazillion times I couldn’t get that song out of my head. Needless to say I was hooked for life. I might have been a tad peeved when he used Daft Punk’s quot;Harder Better Faster Strongerquot; for his song aptly named quot;Strongerquot; but it was still good. All the scene kids are in love with Fall Out Boy now. They know it deep down if they don’t actively admit it. Who can’t love a band who has a member who names their child Bronx Mowgli? Adorable? Sure.
The Pitchfork 500
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Conversely a devastating review can kill an album. Pitchfork has been publishing “best-of” lists for years (their annual singles and album wrap-ups are especially popular) so it seems natural that they’d turn their penchant for classifying and cataloging music into a book. The Pitchfork 500 uses 42 critics to cover 30 years of music from 1977 punk to 2006 crunk and all the starry-eyed acoustic acts in between. Journey: “Don’t Stop Believing” 1981
“You can tell something about a person’s relationship to popular music as a whole by how they feel about this song. Generally people fall into two camps. If they have at one time considered it a “guilty pleasure” a dim-witted power ballad made by guys with bad haircuts to be enjoyed despite its inherent cheesiness they probably identify most with indie music of some stripe.
The Koran punk rock and lots of questions
Los Angeles Timesnbsp;CAnbsp;
It’s one of a collection of slogans the 17-year-old has silk-screened on T-shirts in her bedroom unbeknownst to her parents both Muslim immigrants from Pakistan. There are other aspects of Hiba’s life lately she thinks they might not approve of either like the Muslim punk music she has been listening to with lyrics such as “suicide bomb the GAP” or “Rumi was a homo. ” Or the novel she bought online about rebellious Muslim teenagers in New York. It opens with: “Muhammad was a punk rocker he tore everything down. Muhammad was a punk rocker and he rocked that town. This much Hiba knows: She is a Muslim teenager living in America.
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Murmur (Deluxe Edition)
PopMattersnbsp;ILnbsp;
The underground had gone below ground but there were inklings of a new scene coalescing around college radio stations and newspapers all across the country not limited to regional acts or styles. There wasn#8217;t really a word for what we now call #8220;alternative#8221; or #8220;indie#8221;#8212;maybe #8220;college#8221;. Punk had been angry and political diametrically opposed to the mainstream of corporate music culture. When the embers finally died the ashes blew into the atmosphere and circulated the globe: if many of the groups who picked up the banner of punk were not as angry nor as violent they were still dedicated to the idea of creating an opposition to corporate rock culture.