When the Underground shriveled into micro-genres with an ethos of participation

*With network culture trampling all before it, we're gonna see more and more of these counting-the-cost articles. Not that the old way was so much better, but that the no-longer-new Web way has so many gaping gothic-high-tech holes in it. "I thought sure there was a — bangbangbang — rock'n'roll club in here. This scene's emptier than a Dubai highrise!"

*Simon Reynolds:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/dec/21/changing-sound-underground

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