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Tea-Time Terror: How Two Minutes of Swearing Dismantled the British EmpireTea-Time Terror: How Two Minutes of Swearing Dismantled the British Empire On December 1, 1976, the British Empire finally collapsed. It didn't fall to an invading army, a currency crisis, or a diplomatic failure. It fell to a drunken television presenter and four working-class kids in bondage trousers on a regional news program. When the Sex Pistols replaced Queen as last-minute guests...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 200 Views
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The Architecture of Smoke: How Miles Davis Invented 'Cool'The Architecture of Smoke: How Miles Davis Invented 'Cool' In 1959, Jazz was suffering from a panic attack. The dominant sound of the era, Bebop, was a frantic, athletic pursuit—a musical obstacle course where virtuosos like Charlie Parker crammed as many chord changes as possible into a single bar. It was impressive, dizzying, and exhausting. Miles Davis, the rasp-voiced Prince of...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 238 Views
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The Chrome Tear: How Daft Punk’s Robots Taught Us to FeelThe Chrome Tear: How Daft Punk’s Robots Taught Us to Feel In the turn of the millennium, the music industry was obsessed with the Cult of Personality. It was the era of TRL, reality TV, and the relentless commodification of the pop star’s face. Into this narcissism stepped Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, two French house producers who decided to commit the...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 237 Views
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The Binary Bach: How Kraftwerk Deleted the Rock Star to Build the FutureThe Binary Bach: How Kraftwerk Deleted the Rock Star to Build the Future In the late 1970s, the dominant image of the musician was one of biological excess. It was Robert Plant’s open shirt, Mick Jagger’s strut, and the sweaty, whiskey-soaked nihilism of the budding punk scene. Music was defined by its humanity—its messiness, its errors, and its carnal drive. Meanwhile, in a...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 239 Views
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The Trojan Horse in Flannel: How Nirvana Sold Nihilism to the MassesThe Trojan Horse in Flannel: How Nirvana Sold Nihilism to the Masses The 1980s did not end on New Year's Eve 1989. They ended on September 29, 1991, the day the video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" entered heavy rotation on MTV. Before that specific week, the American rock mainstream was a bloated, hedonistic carcass. It was the era of Hair Metal—bands like Poison and Warrant who sold a...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 199 Views
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The Great Unbundling: How Napster Turned Art into WaterThe Great Unbundling: How Napster Turned Art into Water To understand the violence of the Napster revolution, you have to remember the tyranny of the Compact Disc. In 1998, the music industry was a cartel that held the consumer hostage. If you wanted to hear the one good song on a record, you had to drive to a mall, walk into a Tower Records, and pay $18.99 for a plastic disc containing 12...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 211 Views
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The Ugly Beauty of NoiseThe Ugly Beauty of Noise Why We Need the Filth: A Love Letter to Three Chords and a Microphonic Scream Let’s be honest with ourselves for a moment. We don’t listen to this stuff because it’s pretty. We don’t spin Fun House by The Stooges or the first Clash record because we want to be soothed. We do it because the world is a polished, plastic lie, and we...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 135 Views
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The Architecture of SorrowThe Architecture of Sorrow Gravity, Amplification, and the Slow March to the Grave There is a distinct difference between being fast and being heavy. Speed is adrenaline; it’s a race car, a fight, a panic attack. But heaviness? Heaviness is geological. Heaviness is time itself slowing down until every second feels like a burden you have to carry. When Tony Iommi first detuned his guitar...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 182 Views
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The Technical Ecstasy of DeathThe Surgeon’s Scalpel: Precision in the Face of Chaos To the uninitiated, death metal sounds like a construction site disaster. It is chaotic, abrasive, and seemingly structureless. But this is the great deception of the genre. Underneath the blast beats and the guttural vocals lies a level of musical sophistication that rivals jazz fusion or classical composition. Look at the legacy of...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 148 Views
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