Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life

Seth Kim-Cohen is Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. He is the author of Against Ambience and Other Essays (Bloomsbury, 2013), In the Blink of an Ear: Toward A Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Bloomsbury, 2009), and One Reason to Live: Conversations About Music (2006). With his bands (names_of_music, The Fire Show, Number One Cup), he has released more than a dozen albums and performed throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. John Peel once bought him a beer.

1. That’s Peanut Butter!
2. Counter, Culture, Counterculture
3. We Shall Raise the Flag of Nothingness
4. The Politics and Ethics of Ecstasy
5. A Brand New Bag
6. Gnostics of the North, or Music To Recolonize Your Anxious Capitalist Dreams By
7. All The Needles Are on Red
8. The Wee Hours of Etc.
9. The Feeling You’ve Been Cheated
10. Video Killed the Radio Star
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