The Juuzy Blog.
Rationale: “Skanking”
Here we are again: another essay detailing my petty grievances, and somehow JuuzyProwl has evolved in the process. Finding the direction for this next piece became an inventory of what I wanted from this site. JuuzyProwl began as a space purely for the musically curious; since then, I have developed my direction to have a…
Skanking Through the Crisis: Ska, 2 Tone and the Refuge of the Restless
Plain black vector icon of a vinyl record, from the Pinhead map icon library. Public domain graphic by Quincy Morgan, dedicated under CC0 1.0. Wikimedia Commons. It was COVID, lockdown, May 2020, and I had just started reading ‘Walls Come Tumbling Down’ by the sensational music-journo Daniel Rachel. If you haven’t picked it up yet…
What Happened to Political Music: From Thatcher to Playlistification of Music Taste
“Hey Siri, play Walls Come Tumbling Down by The Style Council on Spotify” “Okay, playing Walls Come Tumbling Down by The Style Council” “You don’t have to take this crap, you don’t have to sit back and relax” The Style Council, and more specifically Paul Weller is one of my all-time ‘pinup boys’, definitely not…