Posts Tagged ‘reggae’
A New Revolution?
21Jan12
It’s just a day after online protests have brought down the SOPA internet piracy bill and I’m watching several hundred concert goers raise their fists to Jamaican revolution songs. It’s a baklava layered with syrupy irony. Here we stand inside the Knitting Factory on a snow-dampened night in a poverty-ridden city, a block from where [...]
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Tags: essays, reggae, revolution, Spokane, The Wailers
By J.A. O’Sullivan Nobody in America is makes music similar to The Aggrolites. You won’t read about this L.A.-based reggae band in Rolling Stone or Spin or Pitchfork.com, who prefer to meditate almost exclusively on the melancholy guitar-driven schlock left in the wake of this decade’s twin parallel music clichés, indie (pendent) and emo (tional). [...]
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Tags: Aggrolites, Aggrolites IV, music reviews, reggae, rocksteady, ska