2/18/2023 0 Comments Gerardo ortiz y calibre 50 concert![]() ![]() This was the termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss riposte to all that Art. ![]() In response, last week the Minneapolis City Pages, led by the excellent Keith Harris, published a list of 40 non-essential songs since the year 2000. Arcade Fire is everywhere, and Duluth folk-rockers Trampled By Turtles are more ranked than they’ve ever been ranked before. “Seven Nation Army” is #1 - and to be fair, it’s got one of the first riffs learned by today’s budding guitarists. This list is a hit of sweet, unfiltered white elephant art. Recently The Current held a listener poll to determine the 893 essential songs since the year 2000. Add in some pieces from my Singles Jukebox colleague Juana Giaimo and many many others, and that’s a website! I’m honored to appear in their company.Īs a recovering rockist and certified Old, I enjoy listening to the radio station The Current, 89.3 FM, whenever I’m driving through the Twin Cities. See if you can piece together the argument from these images:įinally, good news for the Blog’s readers: Remezcla music editor Eduardo Cepeda has been running more articles on Regional Mexican music, including his own (that’s in addition to his crucial reggaeton series Tu Pum Pum) and those of Roberto Jose Andrade Franco and Lucas Villa. Don’t miss his exploding keytar! However, when I changed formats from PowerPoint to thinkpiece, I had to abandon some of my beloved slides. If nothing else, you should check out Remezcla for the original art of Alan López. There’s also some backstory on how Regional Mexican formed in the first place for more, see the Blog’s original research and nursery rhyme. Back in April at Seattle’s Pop Conference, I presented the paper “Selena, Ariel Camacho, and Two Tragedies that Reshaped Regional Mexican Music.” Now I’m happy to report that the website Remezcla has published a streamlined version - down to under 2,000 words, from an original length of 3,000+ - with the new headline “The Tragic Artist Deaths that Reshaped the Future of Regional Mexican Music.” I have trouble boiling down the thesis for people (you can read the abstract here), but it’s basically: Selena and Ariel Camacho both died young one of their genres fizzled out one of their genres got big figuring out why tells us stuff about Regional Mexican audiences.
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