Comments on: Simon Reynolds: Erase and Start It Again

By: Remix Redux: Transformative Appropriation | Roy Christopher

Remix Redux: Transformative Appropriation | Roy Christopher — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:00:58 +0000

[...] is suspect” (p. 26). Others want to spread the practice out, to see it everywhere. As Simon Reynolds puts it, appropriately citing the worst misuses of the concept [...]

By: Joy Division: The Rest is Mystery | Roy Christopher

Joy Division: The Rest is Mystery | Roy Christopher — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:03:27 +0000

[...] “potent as any drug: overwhelming, stupefying, and certainly addictive” (p. xvi), and Simon Reynolds cites Unknown Pleasures as one of the trinity of “postpunk landmarks” from 1979, along [...]

By: Until the End of the World, 2012 | Roy Christopher

Until the End of the World, 2012 | Roy Christopher — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:07:53 +0000

[...] of [the shoegazers] couldn’t rock their way out of a paper bag,” once quoth Simon Reynolds. Not so with Erik Blood. There’s as much Loop here as there is Main, as much Anton Newcombe as [...]

By: Ennui Go: Pop Culture’s Irony Fatigue | Roy Christopher

Ennui Go: Pop Culture’s Irony Fatigue | Roy Christopher — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:55:56 +0000

[...] (p. 385). If pop culture is just recycling plastic pieces of the past, where it is dragging us? Simon Reynolds (2011) draws a parallel between nostalgic record collecting and finance, “a hipster stock [...]

By: Erik Blood: Aural Sex | Roy Christopher

Erik Blood: Aural Sex | Roy Christopher — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:28:05 +0000

[...] of [the shoegazers] couldn’t rock their way out of a paper bag,” once quoth Simon Reynolds (DuBrowa, 2002). Not so with Erik Blood. There’s as much Loop as there is Main, as much [...]

By: Simon Reynolds: Erase and Start Again | Disinformation

Simon Reynolds: Erase and Start Again | Disinformation — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:58:51 +0000

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By: Roy Christopher » How We Became Post-Rock

Roy Christopher » How We Became Post-Rock — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:35:41 +0000

[...] little consensus on exactly where Rock crossed the line and became Post-Rock (a term popularized by Simon Reynolds), but most people agree that the two bands that galvanized the movement in the last two decades are [...]

By: Roy Christopher

Roy Christopher — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:44:52 +0000

New from Simon: Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture is re-released next month in expanded and updated form. With six extra chapters and 40 thousand new ords, the remixed Energy Flash--a.k.a. Generation Ecstasy--takes in developments in dance music in the decade since its original 1998 publication: the trance resurgence, 2step garage, the nu-Eighties electro sound, microhouse, grime, breakcore, dubstep... More information here.

By: disinfo.com

disinfo.com — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:38:06 +0000

Simon Reynolds: Erase and Start Again…

Disinfo ally Roy Christopher and I interview UK music journalist and subculture chronicler Simon Reynolds about the rise-and-fall arc of Public Image Ltd., the return of industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle, and Reynolds’ upcoming projects for …