Continueduum

Simon Reynolds with a great article on the Hardcore Continuum, why the younger generation might reject the idea, and where today's music (doesn't) stands laterally along the 'nuum spectrum

Also worth reading is Carl Neville's response here

Neville does well at identifying something that seems crucial to the generational divide Reynolds suggest:

"Probably, before, I’ve termed this the hipster sublime, but trying to think about generational issues more generously, can’t it be the case that there really are two split sensibilities here. Between a generation that had nothing available to it and spent all its time looking to the future and waiting for something to happen and a generation for whom everything had already happened, to whom everything was present and who had to look around in all directions at once?"

Though the current generation has been guarenteed by late capitalism to earn less than their parent's generation, musically they're in a period of overabundance. The 'nuum and its notions of historicity seem to implode at the split between the have-nots ("a generation that had nothing available to it and spent all its time looking to the future and waiting for something to happen") and the have-alls ("a generation for whom everything had already happened, to whom everything was present and who had to look around in all directions at once").