"Skathole"  Parental Advisory genre: Experimental/Post Rock
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	CD: Indie Authenticity Crisis   Label: Hard Boiled
	Story Behind the Song This song is intended as an invitation to re-examine how we live our lives. The "Indie Authenticity Crisis" CD comments on the current situation in the independent post-punk scene where monetary success (and/or critical acclaim) is both the implicit goal and the signifier of a surrender of legitimacy. The "crisis" is one where the respect of peers is dependent on the one hand on "staying true to the scene" and passing up lucrative opportunities, while on the other hand those who do "make it big" and hence are no longer so dependent on the respect of their peers(or perhaps they are simply adjusting to a new peer group?) often garner a more significant form of respect. As Indie Rock is co-opted by the big money vultures, the process of "selling out", becomes the process of buying in. As bands like the Royal Trux begin to appear in Calvin Klein commercials(see below) the line between the hipster drop-out and the celebrity model is smudged. The music of the Royal Trux was originally the antithesis of capitalist success(see "Spike Cyclone" or the Twin Infinities Lp). Now they churn out insipid blues rock, but they own their own land. Indie Rock is in a state of Crisis in the sense that it has inherent contradictions.The contradiction is between (a) Indie _Rockers_ are actually entertainers, therefore they want attention, air play, renumeration, and, basically, audience. As such they are subject to the insidious workings of the "Culture Industry" with it's manifold and well-documented evils. (b) On the other hand, _Indie_ Rockers proclaim independence from the Culture Industry. This is where authenticity comes in. For an Indie rocker, authenticity is (partly) measured by her or his autonomy from the culture industry. If there's a didactic reason for the name, we are trying to point out to Indie rockers or fans that this crisis does exist, and that they will be stuck in a state of contradiction unless they take over the "means of production" of culture itself. Indie rock's attitude is to carve out a niche for itself and perch there happily forever. But this is contradictory, because the form of expression is fundamentally situated in the Culture Industry. Hence, Indie Rock is stuck as a sort of farm system for the Culture Industry. The biggest deniers of this situation are actually the indie labels more than the bands. By no means should this be taken as saying Indie Rock is bad, it has to change, or should go away. Not at all. Most creative music is not coming out of the big 3 labels, just like the fact that creative movies are not coming out of hollywood. Hell, look at the theater industry, where you have a slew of starved "indie" theaters, and then on the other hand, Broadway puts on a musical version of "Big". The same situation is happening everywhere.

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