19 October, 2007

Uber Linkage!

Every music fan should read this article at Slate: "The Trouble With Indie Rock" by Carl Wilson.

I think Wilson makes some valid points about the current state of music. I can see a schism just within the disparate indie factions, but the differences between the content of say The Roots' music and the music of Iron & Wine are major. We live in a country vastly separated by class (as anyone who witnessed the devastation of Hurricane Katrina can confirm), and so our music - which is such a reflective art-form - is also separated. Luckily, change is important and constant in the musical world and true music-lovers learn to appreciate music for its truth and beauty, not because it happens to gel with their patrician (or proletarian) world-views.

So bring on the funk, the blues, the emo, the screamo, the punk, the cassical, jam, grunge, showtunes, trip-hop, hip-hop, soul, hardcore, metal, jazz, lo-fi, folk, and bubble-gum pop; because in the the words of Leela James, "all we need is music!".

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