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 Wallace Wylie

Segregation Under a Groove: Pop Music’s Unspoken Colour Lines

Segregation Under a Groove: Pop Music’s Unspoken Colour Lines

Many years ago, a great schism occurred in the history of popular music. As amps got louder and concerts got bigger, new groups responded by creating a heavier kind of music that relied on sheer sonic power as opposed to the lighter sounds of early sixties pop. Rock music broke away from pop and in […]

 Wallace Wylie

The Quality of Music and The Conformity of Youth | Dwindling Album Sales Explained

The Quality of Music and The Conformity of Youth | Dwindling Album Sales Explained

The real problem that the industry is dealing with these days is the lack of cultural importance given to popular music and the fact that popular music no longer has the same unifying power as it used to.

 Scott Creney

A.R. Kane – The Complete Singles Collection (One Little Indian)

The missing link between Robert Wyatt and Disco Inferno, A. R. Kane sounded equally at home in the club as in the bedroom, under the stars and in the studio.

 Scott Creney

Mac DeMarco – Rock And Roll Night Club (Captured Tracks)

If you can’t be great, you can at least be interesting.

 Scott Creney

The 1980s Was Way Shittier Than You Think It Was – A Retrospective

All of these songs were ubiquitous. They were in the Top 10 of the US charts. They permeated the culture and colored everyone’s life.

 Wallace Wylie

The Weeknd – House Of Balloons / Thursday / Echoes Of Silence (XO)

Sex, drugs, more sex, more drugs, each song details another night of Bacchanalian excess with no redemption in sight. Are you ready to party?

 Wallace Wylie

Why Pop Music Matters (No Matter What Age You Are)

Pop outflanked all of its critics by making them extreme traditionalists or anti-populist cranks.

 Wallace Wylie

8 Things You Should Avoid Saying in Response to a Music Review You Dislike

Have you read Lester Bangs? Guess what? He was a failed musician.

 Bianca Valentino

Joe Cardamone (Icarus Line) – The Collapse Board Interview

Most people just turn the other way for success. I think we’ve had a career of uncompromising vision.

 Bianca Valentino

Celeste Potter of Ouch My Face — The Collapse Board Interview

I don’t think any of my guitar solos are any of the right notes or anything.