Just Like God, Indie Rock is Resurrected

My latest post on The Other Journal’s Mediation blog, “Just Like God, Indie Rock is Resurrected” is now up for your viewing pleasure.

An excerpt:

In Maddux’s essay, she notes that Elson used as support a quote from Kierkegaard:“The day when Christianity and the world become friends, Christianity is done away with.” In similar fashion, indie had begun to make piece with the world of advertising. The Decemberists and other indie darlings signed onto major record labels like Capital Records. Indie music has become the de facto soundtrack of TV shows not named Glee. Indie was entering the mainstream as Maddux wrote; therfore, it must be dead. Taking that perspective, Arcade Fire winning a Grammy award is the gravestone. Yet, this could also be interpreted as the stone rolling away.

Also, check out some of the other recent Mediation posts on Black Swan, Jon Stewart, and Facebook.

In Maddux’s essay, she notes that Elson used as support a quote from Kierkegaard:“The day when Christianity and the world become friends, Christianity is done away with.” In similar fashion, indie had begun to make piece with the world of advertising. The Decemberists and other indie darlings signed onto major record labels like Capital Records. Indie music has become the de facto soundtrack of TV shows not named Glee. Indie was entering the mainstream as Maddux wrote; therfore, it must be dead. Taking that perspective, Arcade Fire winning a Grammy award is the gravestone. Yet, this could also be interpreted as the stone rolling away.
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