simon re: me & the klaxons:
(again, the problem isn’t with a band-as-rhetoricians scenario. i generally like when bands seem to care about the language people use in describing and categorizing their music. the problem with the klaxons is that they’re young and their fans are younger, so throwing out a term like ‘nu-rave’–which is both shitty and insufficient–does less to rally and more to a) draw ire from ex-ravers angry that their ‘ideals’ are being ‘corrupted’ and b) give writers a ‘interesting’ platform and tidy way to talk about the band [that, or deride them for not being what they claim, or something]. moreover, it binds them to a past that they’re not really a part of anyhow. seriously–as far as i can tell, ‘nu-rave’ only applies to them insofar as they make high-energy music with an occasional window for bliss. but, y’know, keep talking, klaxons, you might find a way out yet.)
also: new chapters in the tale of the stylus takeover:
andrew unterberger, boy wonder: now blog-fresh
the stylus singles jukebox, reanimated, at a frightening clip
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of course not. again, i think it’s a good thing that they talk about their music. i think i’m just sad that it seems to have slipped out of their hands; that there’s already this ridiculous weight of rhetoric pushing against a band whose debut record is just being released–nobody’s gonna review the album, they’re gonna review the ‘journalism’ the band has inspired over the last several months.
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Wait! You’re blaming the band for throwing out a term to describe themselves? In your ideal world, would artists only perform/produce their art, and leave all of the adjectives and descriptors to the critical machine while fans appreciate art only through the critics’ lenses?
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