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  • Rosen -- please stop it.

    Seriously, man. You go down like a clown every time you try to do this pseudo-social science isht. I think a lot of people already addressed the spurious nature of ideas like ''real'' ''[pick racial/ethnic group here]'' ''music in the popism v. rockism/ stephen merritt/frere-jones' indie rock = white people ''controversies'' over the last few ...
    Posted to Brow Beat by Paula26 on October 23, 2009

  • Fetishizing authenticity

    Both SFJ and Carl Wilson are fetishizing a particular type of authenticity, because that whole upper-middle class college-educated yuppie thing is just as authentic as the rest of it. They both perpetrate the kind of thinking that keeps music criticism from evolving significantly from the early days of gonzo journalism, which was obsessed ...
    Posted to Culturebox by Paula26 on October 19, 2007

  • the Rilo Kiley example

    great article. this section reminded of the furor now enveloping the community of Rilo Kiley fans upon the release of their new, dance-oriented album: (contemporary idie rock)... is the music of young ''knowledge workers'' in training, and that has sonic consequences: Rather than body-centered, it is bookish and nerdy; rather than being ...
    Posted to Culturebox by cat-chaz on October 19, 2007

  • Giant Red Herring

    Modest Mouse. Isaac Brock grew up in a poor logging town in the Northwest. You are correct that the whole ''race'' thing is just stupid: Bloc Party is fronted by a Black guy (he's English), and TV on the Radio, one of the best new indie groups out there, is just chock-full of black dudes. You're also not entirely wrong about class. I am ...
    Posted to Culturebox by hellifiknow on October 18, 2007