Category: Music
This is a very lightly edited transcription of a presentation Greg Dember recently gave at the Melbourne Metamodernism Conference, February 2–3, 2023.
Can contemporary composers Jennifer Walshe and Robin Haigh be thought of as metamodern composers?
Our guest Camden Ostrander is an expert on all things Donald Glover/Childish Gambino and the writer behind Season 7 of the Dissect Podcast which explores in depth Childish Gambino's …
I’ve always liked Weezer, but never felt like they were one of my bands. “The Sweater Song,” “Buddy Holly,” and “Say It Ain’t So” – the hits from their …
BROCKHAMPTON is a U.S. hip-hop collective that breaks a number of norms. For example, they prefer to be called a "boy band" --because they want to redefine what boy …
I recently gave a talk “Punk Rock for Sissies: The Return of Affect in Early 21st Century American Indie Rock” at the AHRC Metamodernism conference at Radboud University in …
Here’s one that we want to call metamodern, and yet are challenged to explain why it is metamodern. David Byrne is a guest participant in this Choir! Choir! Choir! performance of David Bowie’s ““Heroes”.” What Choir! Choir! Choir! does …
A note from Sufjan Stevens Friends, I wrote a song for Tonya Harding. It’s not at all related to the new biopic (I sent it to the music supervisors but they …
If this song were made by anyone besides Bill Murray and Paul Shaffer, it might be too corny to be metamodern, but it is by Bill Murray and Paul Shaffer, so… we’re feeling obliged to …
We regard Sufjan Stevens as one of the poster children for metamodernism, and no discussion of metamodernism in popular music is complete without taking a look at his work. Notable for weaving …