The Null Device

The industry news section in the latest issue of local street press newspaper Beat has a fragment on how the WTC attack will change music. Apparently releases hard rock albums are being delayed by 6 months (probably only in the US; the latest Gerling album is out here with the original title and all), and hip-hop's trend to drop gangsta posturing has been accelerated (a good thing, IMHO; boneheaded alpha-male posturing is a huge liability for the hip-hop genre, as far as being taken seriously goes). Furthermore, the piece says that it says that cynicism and self-absorption are out (sounds like the death-of-irony meme again), and "songs about family values" are in. Does this mean that we will soon see bands like Radiohead and Placebo disappear without a trace and Christian music acts take over the charts?

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