http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/male-bonding-stuck-between-the-90s-and-forever-on-endless-now/Content?oid=2173674 Comments On: Male Bonding: Stuck Between the 90s and Forever by Lauren Beck en-us Copyright 2013 The L Magazine. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The L Magazine readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The L Magazine. editor@thelmagazine.com (The L Magazine Webmaster) Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:15:00 -0400 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
That's not to say that a band like Male Bonding is bad, but that what is considered buzz-worthy in the underground rock world is leading to an orthodoxy of musical stylings and an oversaturation of "musicians" (aka people with little talent and training but can play G power chord to C power chord over 1/8 notes while spending $100 on a haircut) which ends up homogenizing the club billings because bookers think that's what's in style and what the kids want to hear.

I think the point is that while there will always be more pop-oriented rock music (aka current indie-sound), I hope that the author and other critics can search out rock bands that have big sounding drums, singers who scream and howl and wear their emotions on their sleeve, and big, dirty sounding guitars that create all sorts of phasing, dissonance, and ass-kicking drive (and maybe some that even have political or societal messages larger than their pursuit of Girl X).

My thoughts are that the whole indie/80's nostalgia/60's surfer/synth rock, which popularized during the Bush years, was akin to a societal opiate binge in which we masked the true nature of our country's (and world's) turn towards an ever more un-egalitarian corporatocracy, and enabled the apathetic political culture we see evident today.

My hope is that a new generation of musicians will begin creating music that is a painful and honest reflection and reaction of the current state of our economy, society, and the world.
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