In Defense Of New Music

The classics never die, but the new carries on

Alexander Razin
The Riff
Published in
7 min readOct 27, 2021

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Reuben Salsa made a valid point in his excellent article Fuck Your Classics — Give Me Ashnikko Any Day when he talked about why The Riff doesn’t discuss new music.

Yes, why not talk about modern music? At first, I was going to go on a tangent about why we don’t examine new music, but I told myself, let’s get down to…

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Alexander Razin
The Riff

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