Boxer/Briefs #7

Boxer/Briefs #7

-William Burroughs interviews Jimmy Page

-The Atlantic considers Bob Dylan

-(My favorite) N+1 has a brilliant consideration of Hip-Hop as a misrepresented genre and of the general state of contemporary culture:

One reason hip-hop reached the masses like it did is that no other music better predicted or embodied the forms that postindustrial cultural consumption would take. Most casual hip-hop listeners, for all the handwringing about their being influenced, do not actually listen to rap lyrics. They listen to the beats, and what hip-hop’s beats suggest is a cultural world in which you are completely surrounded by reproductions of culture, in which culture never stops quoting itself in bits and fragments, in which sequels and remakes depend on the audience’s familiarity with the original documents.