"Boys Keep Swinging"-echoing provocations from Tricky Kid and Martina T-B
successor to Shock and Awe whose feed no longer seems to be working properly - original blog + archive remains here: http://shockandawesimonreynolds.blogspot.com/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the blog of the Simon Reynolds book about glam and artpop of the 1970s and its aftershocks and reflections to this day
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antitheatricality + politics (the return) - "performative imperialism"
I did say I wasn't going to track this kind of tropery anymore - but couldn't resist reactivating for this beaut of a phrase "p...
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Nothingelseon has just come to the end of a heroic run of archival activity - scanning and making freely available the almost-entire print...
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THE glam bassist. "Oddity" might be the first time I registered the existence of the bass as an instrument - for those strange d...
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Mark Fisher would say that glam is intrinsically aristocratic. But it's supposed to be a Tom Ripley type interloper - someone from t...
At the time I thought Tricky in this era was the pinnacle of recorded music. I still half-think it today.
ReplyDeleteMe too. Maxinquaye still sounds amazing.
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