Yesterday, with its lease expiring at midnight, the Save CBGB crowd might have begged for mercy, dragged the governor to the Bowery, or searched for a last-minute legal loophole. Instead, they staged a concert rally in Washington Square Park with a reunited Public Enemy, Blondie, the Bouncing Souls, and others.
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Hip-hop court jester Flavor Flav may be the newest reality-TV sensation (see The Surreal Life and Strange Love, if you can stomach it) but one person isn’t buying the act: Chuck D, Flav’s former comrade in the seminal rap group Public Enemy.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, the Greil Marcus of his day, once noted, “There are two tragedies in a man’s life. The first is to have failed to have reached your goal; the second is to have reached it.” Arguments of eternal return aside, Nietzsche seemed to understand how the “world” of music is represented to the public. Read More
