Right-Wing Rock crits

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Buick6

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Well the *best* right-wing or neo-con or whatever tarred and feathered label you wanna diss him with rock-crit is Chris Stigliano of Black 2 Comm, without any doubt.

http://www.black2com.blogspot.com/

Mind you he doesn't regard himself as a rock-crit per-se, more as an enlightened fan. Some of his rants can be pretty painful, but his reactionary fevour is mightily hilarious, entertaining and amazingly INFORMED, compared to all the Johnny-Wankers that pose as 'rock crits', 'post modern culture analysts' or 'Village Voice elitists with the 'best-taste-and-no-taste' and their often duller-than-dishwater critiques or unfunny in-joke banter...Stigliano seems to be some guy who's slightly bitter he didn't get the breaks he prolly deserves and in some ways a vicitm of the shithouse culture-vultures-editors and other whatever hipster/hicksters that work the media.

when I want the skinny on truly fucken great 'rock' or 'avant' music, he's one of the first amerigan crits I'll read (Coley is unfortunately MIA, and I don't really read THE WIRE). If I want trendy/shmendy UK muzik and Euro/electro stuff, then I'll read Reynolds, coz he's know his shit, or will go out and discover it.

It's hard to be *totally* right-wing and dig rock coz it's all about *freedom* and the fact that the emotions rock works on are so primal and against the grain of truly right-wing repressive/control desires.

But right wing or not, these two guys deserve gainful employment for their astute and rockin' rock scribings, unlike some boring hack like Michael Goldberg, or some of the drongos that do it for the Stone
 
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francesco

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Buick6 said:
It's hard to be *totally* right-wing and dig rock coz it's all about *freedom* and the fact that the emotions rock works on are so primal and against the grain of truly right-wing repressive/control desires.
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The concept of "Freedom" (or the ghost of it, i still wonder if this word really has a meaning except freedom to recognise we are nothing but desire programmed machines) is not alien to right wing phylosophies, since there isn't, same in left wing philosophies, a unique right wing philosophy. Freedom from the goverment and their taxes, freedom of the individual Will as opposed from the communist repression and control of it in favour of the Party and the People, freedom from the repressive humanistic (considered as anti natural, anti social darwinism) dogma of Christian-Judaic religions, freedom to have and use a gun,... the right wing of italian politics, the Berlusconi assembly of ex-fascist, racist and mafia, is called "Polo della Libertà"...

And control desires are not alien to Rock, the rockstar as avatar, dux, ecce homo, superman, his band as his own mafia, the sexual power control over the fans and the groupies (come in mind Rolling Stones and Bowie in the '70, "the Wall", Queen, Richie Blackmore (one of the filthiest right wing fascist ever) and almost all metal, be Zeppelin or Iron Maiden ("they worship Power because are so stupid to think they will get some" Chuck Eddy) or Slayer or Darkthrone).

As an example how confusing a right/left wing interpretation of Rock (well, Heavy Metal mostly) can be, you can read this . Now, is not that every bloggers can be elevated to status of "rock critic", but i have read metal magazine were the tone of the discourse wasn't so different at all. By the way i find their "prose" disgusting.
 
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Buick6

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byron coley writes a column with thurston moore for arthur
http://www.arthurmag.com
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Yeah I've read it and it sucks. It's hard to tell whether it's Thurston trying to be uber literate or Coley trying to be Thurston.

Coley writes some fine retros in THE WIRE every once in a while, but manly reviews. His features were always a treat and are in short supplies in todays 'gee wizz hyper stink' rock crit days.

It's interesting to note how similar THE WIRE became to FORCED EXPOSURE *after* FE stopped publishing, but all these fancy-pancy graphic-designed to rectum-bleed 'fanzines' or 'fashionzines' or whatever have no chops compared to the blasted, gonzoid, Beat-fried hilarious wit that 'zines like FE had. 'Arthur' has an innaresting 'green' vibe, butr lacks humour. It's way too smart for it's own arse, and I mean the editor is pushing bands like 'Wolf Mother' - I mean, sheeit, where the fucken hacky-sack and $100,000 per year trust fund? That Peter-Pan American hipster-indie 'lifrestyle' is way too decadent and self-righteous to make a change for anything.

I'm an old fart who recently discovered 'Ugly Things'!
 
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martin

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Try Garry Bushell. On discovering that an album he compiled featured a photo of a notorious British neo-nazi on the front cover : "I think I'm more embarrassed by [him] being a poof"
 
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blissblogger

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martin said:
Try Garry Bushell. On discovering that an album he compiled featured a photo of a notorious British neo-nazi on the front cover : "I think I'm more embarrassed by [him] being a poof"
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the weird thing is that Bushell started out as a member of the SWP and got his journalistic training under Paul Foot on the Socialist Worker! in some of his early reviews for Sounds he refers casually to Brecht and Marx (he described howard devoto's vocal mannerisms as sounding like he was gargling with a copy of Grundisse stuck in his throat!)

his journey from that to The Sun and Bushell on the Box and all his soapbox St George-waving campaigns is a casebook study of... something... volkism i guess is the word

>Coley is unfortunately MIA

i had to stare at that line for a couple of seconds before moving on


isn't Black to Comm the ziner started by Miriam Linna who is accused of playing with some very dodgy imagery in Lester Bangs' the White Noise Supremacists essay?
 
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Leo

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blissblogger said:
isn't Black to Comm the ziner started by Miriam Linna who is accused of playing with some very dodgy imagery in Lester Bangs' the White Noise Supremacists essay?
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just checked the reprint of the essay in bangs' "psych reactions/carb dung," says it was a florida zine was called "new order."
 
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Buick6

too punk to drunk
Leo said:
just checked the reprint of the essay in bangs' "psych reactions/carb dung," says it was a florida zine was called "new order."
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Wasn't there a Stooges offshoot called 'the new order', and then the very famous English band (possibly the modern eras' Rolling Stones) called the same? And wasn't Morrissey into the gay/Nationalist/Nazi vibe for a while, even bonking a few? :confused: Linna's zine was called 'kicks' unless there was another?

But all the 'Noise Boys' would be labelled 'right wing' these days, and Nick Tosches can get pretty borderline..I guess any male writer with an overtly 'red blooded' agenda that isn't gay is 'right wing' in today's gulcheral climate.

But lets not lose the thread here, we are talking 'right wing' in the 2006 blurry sense, NOT Nazi, as is the Internerd case arguement law or whatever the geeks made up (that law about referring to Nazis as an absolute to win an argument).

And in regards to Coley being MIA, where besides 'Arthur' can you regularly read his writing, let alone find any serious tomes of his werk?
 
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big satan

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sonic youth press releases.
also, on the ecstatic peace website their was a video clip of coley reading out some poetry or prose he'd written. it was rubbish though.
he should write a history of rock book like that one joe carducci did. or not like it.
 
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Buick6

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MIA = Missing in Action, used by the army, but in this case referring to a writer to don't read much of these days like you used to.
 
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A few years ago friend of mine was trying to tell me abt Gary Bushells support for Oi, but he got his titles muddled up and told me "Gary Bushell really got behind Stomp", now I'm stuck with this image of Gary Bushell clumping round with bins on his feet.
 
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Buick6

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geto.blast said:
...is a right wing twit with sometimes interesting things to say about music
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Who's Gary Bushell?

I always find it interesting that if these right-wing guys are such 'twits' why are they in power all over the place(corruption needs intelligence too you know)? Sure the left can wage an intellectual war to some degree, and no doubt leftie-writers are generally more intelligent, but that is not always the case.
 
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