American - Musician | September 27, 1974 -
With Sleater-Kinney, we have a lot of earnest fans, and we were an earnest band.
Carrie Brownstein
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I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.
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I'd rather do spontaneous and silly work like ThunderAnt than have somebody's film on my shoulders.
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A lot of music for me was about - I mean, aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really good friends with my bandmates - getting to perform.
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One summer, when I was elementary-school age, my neighbors and I built guitars and keyboards out of scrap wood, painted them in bright colors, and formed the cover band Lil' 'D' Duran Duran. We didn't make our own noise or even pretend to play our fake instruments.
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I went to a liberal arts college wherein grading was qualitative and we had to write our own evaluations.
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'Wii Music' elevates the scope of music video games by moving beyond commentary on what music is - as 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero' do - to suggesting what it could be. Yet I'm still left wondering: Couldn't it be more?
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Not even the creators of 'Rock Band' could possibly believe that playing the game is tantamount to making your own music. There is, however, a sad similarity between 'Rock Band' and some actual bands, and that is the attempt at realness.
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With so much of music blurring the lines between ersatz and authenticity, at least the 'Rock Band' game is a tribute to rock rather than an affront.
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In the realm of fakery, I would choose 'Rock Band' over 'American Idol' or over any of the other flimsy truths masquerading as music.
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When people grow up with a family characterized by chaos and uncertainty and fragility, you look for a substitution for that.
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Music was a means through which I could meet people and sort of begin the process of exploring who I was or who I could be.
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