[contextly_auto_sidebar id="Am8vEARmW7HozjXX5GcmuHgcQEc0fAD8"] WHEN people try to destroy my argument about a crisis in culture, one of their most common tacks is to suggest that I'm describing just the fading of an old world -- classical music, literary writing, print journalism and so on -- that is being eclipsed as a new, more democratic pop-culture-driven world rises, bestowing its … [Read more...]
Brooklyn’s Warehouse Clubs Crumble
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="9ZrmYtTcEkAZeeiJjqnX9vpz85XUHyUt"] TECHNO-utopians, heartless neoliberals and market-worshipping optimists will tell you that when creative destruction hits, it's only weeding out the losers, casting off the dead wood, allowing the invisible hand -- which works in mysterious ways -- to do its work. And it's easy to imagine, say, an acoustic folk club or a jazz cellar … [Read more...]
BELATED BEST RECORDS OF 08
Afraid the days are past where i could do a definitive top-10 of all the year's music, but here are a few new ones i've really liked:Beach House is a dream-pop duo from baltimore, sort of a chick-led version of Galaxie 500, a less strung out Mazzy Star or a non-Japanese Sugar Plant. I've played this one, the aptly named "Devotion," incessantly; it is perfect hangover music and gets you to a really … [Read more...]