In the 1960s, bop snobs who condemned avant-garde jazz made comments that were not only uninformed and narrow-minded, but sometimes, their attacks on jazz's "new thing" (a term that was used to describe free jazz and Chicago AACM jazz as well as a lot of modal post-bop) were even mean-spirited and hateful. Such bop snobs loved to ridicule and mock the spirituality that characterized a lot of modal and avant-garde jazz; they treated it like a joke and a fad. But spirituality in music is hardly faddish; when...   [ read more ]

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With 2004's release of Placebo's singles collection the band reaffirmed that they've never quite fit into any particular fad. Their success has been gradual in the sense that their style and sound has progressed naturally with each album. Meds builds upon that notion while also embarking on a new phase for Placebo. Meds is their second coming. Frontman Brian Molko is no longer the glam-chic, gender-bending firestarter he once was. His songs are still angry and twisted in self-reflection and social rejectio...   [ read more ]

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While the industry is full of commercial copy artists, conservative producers diggin' in the crates marked "The Best of MTV 80's Dance Hits", and a host of project kids selling their soul for a chance to live in player paradise, leave it up to the Seattle-Tacoma Underground to bring you nothing but the real Hip-Hop. Look toward the NW corner and you'll find that scientists have been in the lab putting together the ELEMENTS that make CLASSIC material, thus you have CLASSIC ELEMENTS. First up on this Vinyl E...   [ read more ]

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