This post is the second in a set on the British band Cornershop and their information obsession. Part two begins with their 1993 song, “Jason Donovan / Tessa Sanderson,” which is about two libel cases that received considerable publicity in the United Kingdom: Continue reading “Merry Christmas, Jason Donovan”
Tjinder Singh and his post-punk band Cornershop really, really care about information—its technologies, its media, its creators, its consumers—which, for the 1990s at least, is a little unusual. Why care about anything at all when punk has bequeathed them a license to lunge pell-mell down the abyss of heedless anger, smashing up everything and replacing it with nothing? Continue reading “Where’d You Get Your Information? (Part I)”