“If you are mainstream, you don’t need a label. Pere Ubu is the mainstream of rock music. Other people have deviated off somewhere.”
“I am uninterested in “making something new.” I am interested in mainstream rock as the fundamental voice of the American folk experience. I am interested in exploring the narrative voice within the mainstream. Pere Ubu is mainstream rock. Justin Timberlake is weird experimental music. Robbie Williams is avant-garde. Britney Spears is constantly coming up with something new and innovative. Pere Ubu does the same old thing. “New” is a trap and a scam to dupe student-types and other naive people.”
First posted: Friday, September 10th, 2010.
