Moving from Salt Lake City to Seattle I heard comments like “Seattle has the best music scene”, “There are so many great bands in Seattle”, “My friend is in a band in Seattle”. Since my relocation I can really only say the latter is true. Everyone is in a band, everyone’s friend is in a …
I am not really sure I know what instrumental Hip Hop is. I have been told that artists I like very much such as Prefuse 73, Flying Lotus, DJ Shadow, Alias, and J Dilla are instrumental hip hop. I am still not sure if a boundary line exists between the general corpus of electronic music …
Smashing guitars on stage. Biting the heads off of doves. Mock on-stage electrocutions. Appropriation of fascist imagery. The stand-ins for our residual, repressed and displaced violence have served as ineffective shamen. Twisting and contorting the violence that runs red under the thin veneer of a social contract and the failed promise of upwards mobility that …
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