In Defense Of New Music
The classics never die, but the new carries on
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7 min readOct 27, 2021
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…