The Village Voice, May 25th, 2005
GANG OF FOUR
Irving Plaza
May 18
GREAT MEN
THE SOUND OF THE CITY
Post-punk pioneers return to demolish a microwave oven
Funk and dub fans Gang of Four helped launch a post-punk subgenre that built song structures on rhythm-section vamps, with the guitarist providing noise, texture, and tonal/atonal touchstones/tangents. As theorized by Bowie, Eno, and Byrne and practiced by PiL, U2, and others, the politics of this aesthetic-that the worker class in the rhythm section is equal to the guitar-singer elite-proved impossible to realize. Quickly, Lydon-Levene, Bono-Edge, and Gang of Four's Jo...
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