Woebot
Well-known member
http://littlejohnnyjewel.blogspot.com/
This place started up at the weekend. It was to have Jeff Chang/Jace Clayton/Andy Kellman as contributors (bit of a dream team!) but the contributors list has come down.
What has also come down is the site's statement of intent, a missive about "protecting dance music from the Rockist slant of the media"
So anyway I was going to have plenty of fun, and now it seems i shall have none! If you get me.
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aw here goes anyway!
first up, i should state that my vison of rockism (ha! preposterous!) has as much room for Rock in it as Dancehall, Crunk etc (everyone knows this anyway, right?) but really (!) is dance music now so flaccid that it needs a lobbying commitee to "protect" it. also it strikes me that the most interesting things going on at the moment ARE ACTUALLY within the terrain of what you could call Rock (in the proper old fashioned sense) things like Delia and Gavin (more tomorrow) The Lickets, Ariel Pink, Animal Collective,The Books, The Focus Group (even!) are for the first time a huge amount more vivid than anything Microhouse/Urban even Grime/Crunk/Dancehall have to offer.
of course the irony is that the Rock music that the likes of NME, Q and Mojo write about is a million miles from this kind of "Rock"
(thought: Rock, Rock, Rockism, Neo-Rockism ---- we desperately need some new working definitions!)
This place started up at the weekend. It was to have Jeff Chang/Jace Clayton/Andy Kellman as contributors (bit of a dream team!) but the contributors list has come down.
What has also come down is the site's statement of intent, a missive about "protecting dance music from the Rockist slant of the media"
So anyway I was going to have plenty of fun, and now it seems i shall have none! If you get me.
------
aw here goes anyway!
first up, i should state that my vison of rockism (ha! preposterous!) has as much room for Rock in it as Dancehall, Crunk etc (everyone knows this anyway, right?) but really (!) is dance music now so flaccid that it needs a lobbying commitee to "protect" it. also it strikes me that the most interesting things going on at the moment ARE ACTUALLY within the terrain of what you could call Rock (in the proper old fashioned sense) things like Delia and Gavin (more tomorrow) The Lickets, Ariel Pink, Animal Collective,The Books, The Focus Group (even!) are for the first time a huge amount more vivid than anything Microhouse/Urban even Grime/Crunk/Dancehall have to offer.
of course the irony is that the Rock music that the likes of NME, Q and Mojo write about is a million miles from this kind of "Rock"
(thought: Rock, Rock, Rockism, Neo-Rockism ---- we desperately need some new working definitions!)