Sinister: Re: oops -- hit the wrong button

[MWaggner at xxx.com]

The New Yorker article reads, in (the B&S) part:
        ....... "To an American fan, the British music scene is a scary
paradise.  On the one hand, the record companies, the press and the audience
all seem more open to unexpected sounds.  There is not, as in the United
States, a barrier between major and independent labels:  the underground can
see the light of day in an instant.  Elite radio d.j.s, like John Peel, on
the BBC, consult their own taste and ignore whatever sinister lottery
generates the Top Forty.  Lately, programmers and critics have helped make
minor hits out of the delicately skewed ballads of Belle and Sebastian, the
imposing soundscapes of Mogwai, and the Sonic Youth nostalgia of Placebo.  On
the othe hand, all this freespiritedness slides a little too easily into a
nihilistic lust for novelty.  Toread the British music press is to be
bombarded by buzzwords for weeks-old styles  pioneered by bands that have
been around for a few months and will probably be gone in a year."...
  Article by Alex Ross
It goes on to discuss the musical influences on Oasis, Radiohead and other
bands.  
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