songform

On a slowed-down and extended version of the 12-bar blues "Red House," he crams so many ideas into each measure that it seems like he's straining against the limits of the songform itself.

Tony Sachs: Rock N' Roll Menorah: Jimi Hendrix and His "New" Album 2010

On a slowed-down and extended version of the 12-bar blues "Red House," he crams so many ideas into each measure that it seems like he's straining against the limits of the songform itself.

Rock N' Roll Menorah: Jimi Hendrix and His "New" Album 2010

On Levitate, Smith and this latest version of The Fall continue to capsize traditional rock'n'roll dynamics and songform, partly by tapping into the motorik (im) pulse that connects The Johnny Burnette Trio's Train kept a-Rollin 'with Neu's Hallogallo, a link made explicit by what on first appearing appears to be a filler, a throwaway version of Hank Mizzell's Jungle Rock.

FallNews - all mud and witches 1998

"Mnml" (where did the vowel-less spelling originate, anyway?) may have initially been intended to indicate a certain strain of techno that favored staccato, whittled-down sounds and a general refusal of melody or songform, but as a variety of approaches inspired by minimalism coalesced into a series of tropes, and those tropes themselves came to signify "mnml," the term largely became severed from its original, literal meaning, as though through a process of substition.

philip sherburne 2009

Many blues and rock guitarists use the time-honored show stunts like playing behind the back or with their teeth, but Little Joe jumps off from there and gets downright lewd with his axe, rubbing the instrument along every-and I do mean every-surface available on his body, all while improvising wild lyrics and never quite letting the songform fall apart.

unknown title 2009

Many blues and rock guitarists use the time-honored show stunts like playing behind the back or with their teeth, but Little Joe jumps off from there and gets downright lewd with his axe, rubbing the instrument along every-and I do mean every-surface available on his body, all while improvising wild lyrics and never quite letting the songform fall apart.

unknown title 2009

Many blues and rock guitarists use the time-honored show stunts like playing behind the back or with their teeth, but Little Joe jumps off from there and gets downright lewd with his axe, rubbing the instrument along every-and I do mean every-surface available on his body, all while improvising wild lyrics and never quite letting the songform fall apart.

unknown title 2009