The Beach Boys' Carl Wilson responds to Sasha Frere-Jones
Okay, not really, since the Carl Wilson from the Beach Boys has been dead for nine years. But Carl Wilson the music critic for Slate.com has written a great rebuttal to Frere-Jones' New Yorker piece. He points out how simplistic Frere-Jones' essay is and even catches the write contradicting himself. The second best thing about Wilson's response is that he relates current indie rock 'n' roll to class rather than race (which are intertwined of course) and does in a much better way than the New Yorker piece did. The best thing about Wilson's essay is that he links to the above video of Win Butler and Regine Chassagne playing "Keep the Car Running" with Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band in Ottawa. Every piece on concert footage from The Boss should end with a big Canadian dude yelling "holy shit!" Permanent Link: 1:28 PM |
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