It’s become clear to us that certain styles of music are experiencing a resurgence (or a “surgence” at all) in our industrial little corner of Bushwick. Is it a product of our tense times that our music is becoming/returning to an increasingly intense and visceral sound? Is it a reckoning for the past in which this music was de rigueur or perhaps a longing for a time in which our time and spaces weren’t so regulated and our minds not so capitalized by small metal pucks?
Regardless of the reason for the sound of today’s warehouses, we’ve decided to use this issue to (mostly) highlight the history of the sounds, the scenes, and the people who created them going back all the decades — or at least to the 80s when things really got rolling. Luckily for us, these people are often still here to play music for us like they did when this music was in its nascency. How many genres can say that?
Friday, November 22
Cover image courtesy of Hot Rabbit.
