Posts tagged springsteen
the faux bohemian
“It sounds like Arcade Fire,” my colleague wrote.
This makes beautiful sense. Springsteen has publicly embraced the Montreal-based band as the heir apparent to his own E Street Band. Arcade Fire is a classic rock band whose members grew up in the 1980s; they understand that synth-pop can rouse a crowd, too. The Arcade Fire sound resolves the contradictions that kept Boss fans and New Wavers apart in the 1980s.
—Ann Powers, via ‘We Take Care Of Our Own’: Springsteen New Wave Of Social Protest
Yeaaaaaaaah! The new single sounds pretty sweet!
Sax is back?
I’m listening to the new Bon Iver album (streaming on NPR HELL YEAH) - it’s really great, especially the diverse instrumentation. The more I’m thinking about it, I realize that I like his use of sax. And then I slap myself because I realize again that I’ve been watching new music like a hawk for sax ever since I read this Slate article about its GREAT COMEBACK (the herald angels of which are Clarence Clemons and Lady Gaga, natch).
I think that I’ve been hearing it everywhere now, of course, just like in 2007 when every new song I heard sounded like a Springsteen cover after reading an article (Slate again!) about the “indie-rock cult of Bruce Springsteen” reflected in new releases from Arcade Fire and The Killers (not to mention The Traveling Wilburys).
Is this just confirmation bias, or do musicians really all get together at the beginning of the year and decide what they’re all going to do in their next album to give Slate something to write about?
This is bonkerstown.
Springsteen.
