RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Cantwell Gomez & Jordan? Certainly they're the [local] band most likely 
to make my brain scrunch up in the same way Polvo did, although they're 
otherwise not-to-similar.

If one also makes the argument that Hotel Motel are attempting to do for 
"pop" what CGJ are attempting for "rock," then it becomes clear that 
Anne Gomez is in charge of everything. As that is already known to be 
correct, QED.

Ross

Woody wrote:
> I had to think of you good folks recently as I just picked up the above
> mention Polvo album used last week and suddenly its 2005 and I'm
> listening to way too much Polvo again.  Richard chimed in recently
> about current musings so I will too...
>
> at first, I wasn't sure if I was nostalgic for the rock of an earlier
> era but I think Polvo sort of symbolizes the last breath of modernism
> in rock... maybe?  I mean like Polvo was actively working on a
> development of some sort of new music or new guitar work or some sort
> of furthering of the rock genre.  I mean there were a number of Chapel
> Hill bands that while referenced the rock past, had something of a new
> sound.  I'm just saying this in reference to the ummm post-rock to
> follow.
>
> I mean Polvo faded out as Tortoise sort of became the CMJ darlings.
> Tortoise on the other hand, with the exception of their 1st cd, is more
> or less just a combination of a number of 70s bands.  Following
> Tortoise, is a slew of bands now combining their favorite moments from
> the 60s, 70s, and 80s or are just hyper-stylized versus content.
>
> While not qualifying any of these developments, am I just out of it as
> far as interesting new rock or am I right that indie rock or whatever
> has made the transition from formalist developments to
> recontextualization of its past?  I mean the late 90s saw Storm and
> Stress and all those Kranky bands taking rock away from its rhtymic
> constraints and Polvo challenging melodic content (in ways much
> different than the no wave 20 years before).  Am I making sense?  What
> I am missing going on now that counts as rock other than Lightning Bolt
> and brutal prog?
> -Woody
>
> PS. Uncle Woody Sullender @ Nightlight March 3
>
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