Mike
Mike
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

They feel very much like the last gasp of a culture, an echo of Americana that Americans can’t recognize. The great expanse of rural culture that wants union jobs but not unions also wants rock and roll without rebellious, pretentious young people. So it’s a bad album? Does it even matter? You’re talking about Arcade Fire in 2017. That’s a win. You can’t go 5 minutes without a JZ news blurb but no one knows who the hell Arcade Fire is. You know? Even on the Ringer it’s Imagine Dragons and Arcade Fire and who else? GoG ‘tape mixes’ top the charts.

You know how all the ‘popular’ Christmas music was performed in the 50s and people just never moved on? That’s rock. Old geezers watching tribute bands because the originals died of old age. Cover songs for movies. Stadium gigs are the last gasp of live rock, just look at Super Bowl acts over time.

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