Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Music Pazz & Jop Results Published: Indie Rock is Very Popular
Posted by Mike Conklin on Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:09 AM
He makes takes some real steps toward explaining why the lists are skewing younger and why they look so much like those published by Pitchfork: the growing commercial viability of indie rock, the death of criticism in daily newspapers and the growing presence of young, web-only writers as voters in the poll, and the temptation to sneak a peek at other year-end lists, which are coming out earlier and earlier. He's on point with all of it, especially the bit about bandwagon-jumping when it comes time for list-making--we'd all be much better off if more people felt comfortable going out on a limb once in a while. But what doesn't sit quite as well with me is this notion that the relatively poor performance of insanely boring albums by Bruce Springsteen and Levon Helm is anything less than progress.
Worth reading, though, all of it.
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