http://www.sfbg.com/2011/12/13/rearview-mirror
There, in a history-rich bed with a familiar texture, is the spot
where aging rock fans crave to be. According to Simon Reynold's
exhaustive and polarizing 2011 tome Retromania, it's also the space in
which we all now inhabit, new listeners and old. His introductory
words are harsh, if provoking. "The 2000s [was] the decade of rampant
recycling: bygone genres revived and renovated, vintage sonic
material, reprocessed and recombined. Too often with new young bands,
beneath their taut skin and rosy cheeks, you could detect the sagging
grey flesh of old ideas." Brutal.
---SPSmith
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