Rock & Roll Case Study #2: "Hot Topic is the way that we rock?" How Le Tigre and MC Lars address the Adorno problem
...Lars . Sound interesting? Read on
Any self-respecting music snob hates Hot Topic . Its as easy as making fun of emo kids. Its probably too easy. Hot Topic and its "mallternative" movement have created a gigantic market off turning punk against its own principles. The ethos of defiance and fighting conformity has been turned into a marketing...
