Hung Up, or No Longer Indie In Indio

[It's a central tenet of mine that there are two kinds of people in this world: people who think there are two kinds of people in this world, and those of us who know better.]

[However...in light of today's announcement and a three-cornered email exchange I had earlier with Jessica and her brother regarding 80s music, pop identity, and when "alternative" died...]

[There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think Madonna headlining Coachella is a travesty, and those who know it makes perfect sense. (From Sam.) That sound you hear is a couple of hundred thousand adolescent indie-music cherries busting all across America. It's not always La Ciccone who deflowers the poor young things (although she did me, back in 1989), but she is good at putting the full-of-itself "other" either on a pedestal or firmly in its place. Which is it this time?]

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