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I thought veganism was one of the holy tenets of straightedge, along with no alcohol, no drugs, no wanton sex, and being an asshole and beating kids up for smoking ; )

Harry Smith's has surely altered as many lives as any. The mention of 'Let them Eat Jellybeans' and the Cherry Red comps makes me think: among the many other things it was, the (broadest definition) post-punk milieu was a great time for compilations of contemporary music. All those local...

Re: MJ at least, it's probably to do with the idea that "at least" R. Kelly's paedophelia was heterosexual, no? I mean, would most "moralistic" middle-westerners prefer a grown man using a female adolescent to any gay relationship?

Perhaps this particular little flame of a thread is best left in embers. But. . . I really think blissblogger's recently posted interview with Mr. Green (Scritti) gets at a *lot* of what seems to me useful and what seems to me limiting about this...

Do straight edgers wear leather now? Straight edge is only one step above PETA in giving liberals/vegans a bad name. So I do think this is pretty funny. It's sort of like a corporation coopting/subverting the slightly obtuse Adbusters (or maybe Mad Magazine) approach to corporate satire.

Weird, I've always enjoyed the obviously artificial capabilities that stereo gives a musician. Life--driving down a street with the windows rolled down--is more "stereophonic" than a live performance of music usually manages to be. Stereo is just a tool that happens to align nicely with our...

Some seem to be arguing it's certain sonic/aesthetic/presentation qualities which make something rockist; others certain means of production; and others certain motivations for making/listning to music. Anti-rockism comes off as essentially reactionary and diffuse, arguing against these...

I hope to god that that term doesn't really exist. : )

But the bands don't usually stack their respective mono amps on top of one another in the middle of the stage. So even then, there is some stereo separation. What are you, a monorockist? ; )

All the cool bands on Pitchfork will be in mono next year. I could actually see that happening. Freakblues, here we come.

Absurd. Too bad I have two ears, one on either side of my head--if only I just had one on the front, the whole world might sound fuller and thicker and richer, with more depth.

Yeat again (and I'll probably just drop it soon) I see the critiques of "humanist affects - mewling 'sensitivity', moroseness etc.)," "singing live," "individual 'talent'," etc. I agree that the total and exclusive deification of these attributes is a negative. But I still detect some sort of...

No strawmanning intended--I was missing the distinction between physically playing and "creating" through some other means. I still don't quite see the radical difference between the two, but that's probably because I've never focused on it before. In my own music (usually made with...

haha so perhaps "inauthentic" has more currency than "authenticity"--how surprising, the negative more approachable and containable than the positive ; ) I think the "split" you're suggesting--or questioning--bothers me on a regular basis. For instance, within my field of preservation...

To see if anyone is interested in taking this thread in another direction. . . Any thoughts on the ethicality of this sort of endeavour? I began feeling very confident in the ethicality of the set---my intent was to cause purchases of music, expose people to things they might not have heard...

Head swimming indeed. . . Trying to think of a practical example of "a rockist," I'm having trouble. This discussion makes me think I listen to rock music in the "wrong" way (if, by rock's own aims, the "right" way is the "rockist" way--focusing on the frontman, focusing on the guitars...

This strikes me as a compelling concept, but an impossible reality. You might not have meant it literally--but if you didn't, then the distinction you're drawing starts to fall apart. Don't call the person who pushes the buttons and clicks the mouse that makes "machine" music a musician, if...

Given what I see as a clear and present danger of the current maximised strain of neoliberalism/globalism/corporatism, I believe there are valid reasons to aim for something on a more human scale, and "authenticity" may yet prove a worthwhile term in addressing the differences between, again, a...

This sounds awfully like the techno-utopianism of Le Corbusier et al. I'm no luddite--I love a lot of electronic music--but the vigour with which you reject "human" and embrace "machines" seems a bit anachronistic. Haven't we learned the lesson of technologism? It's not that the machines will...

All of this debate tells me that "rockism" is indeed a little more loaded than "liking rock above all other forms of music" (unless that alone is assumed to be innately racist/wrongheaded/pejorative in some other sense). To me, liking something more than other things is no problem--nor is it...