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Death of the Rock and Roll Sell-Out

Since Bruce Springsteen agreed to sell a greatest hits album in Wal-mart, and especially since he said that move was a mistake, the buzz has been negative for Springsteen. The term sell-out has been used. For those so offended, the Super Bowl halftime show only inflamed the wound.
Maybe it was the self-righteous seriousness [...]

You Aint Supposed to Die on a Saturday Night

The Gaslight Anthem are the Quentin Tarantino of rock music. It’s obvious they have been locked in a basement with every classic American rock record and film since 1950 and they studied them hard. Maybe too hard. But man are you glad they did.
Rock has been really nostalgic the last few years. Since The Strokes. [...]

I Bet That You Sound Good on the Dancefloor

The Dancy Future of Pop
The nineties was the era of grunge. That angst filled, distorted-guitar rock produced some great songs and regrettable fashion, but was by-in-large death to a dancefloor. Since the late nineties, rock bands that have intentionally set themselves apart from grunge, have largely fallen into two camps– dance bands and folk-influenced.
The popular [...]