Kenny Bloggins
Articles by Kenny Bloggins
Dreamlab: Christian Psychedelic Music of the '60s and '70s
While I've been known to make bold claims like, "Rebecca Black is advanced," and, "LMFAO is self-aware," the bold claim that generates the most gapes from people in my friend-circle is this assertion: "Actually, Christian music isn’t shitty, you guys."
Dreamlab: From The Outside Looking Out
The summer after my junior year of college was one of those dips in my life where I started feeling a reflexive boredom with music. At the time, I lucked into a cool job booking bands at the town’s largest venue, The Dame. Unless we had booked a larger national artist that routed through on a Monday, we hosted an open mic night against our better judgment as a means to have some sort of music on a slower weeknight.
Dreamlab: The Semantics of Post-Rock
I tend to think that the term “post rock" is pretentious, the same way whenever someone drops "post-whatever" outside the context of a term paper how it's almost always lazy and represents an unwillingness to look closer at shifting trend. I considered writing this commentary with a post-modern style framework to illustrate the point, but it turns out I wasn't smart enough to pull that off. I'm not Mark Z. Danielewski over here.
Dreamlab: Meditations on Meditations
"U.S. Dept. Of Retro Warns: 'We May Be Running Out Of Past'" reads a classic headline from The Onion. As with any satire worth its salt, the quip grapples with some poignant and perhaps patently true ideas. We may have actually have “run out of past” in pop culture. More on that later. At hand, the world of indie music has been particularly guilty reanimating erstwhile styles as of late, having maintained a particularly strong holding pattern of sonic recycling in the last decade. Hey, at least it's sustainable.
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