Sometimes we need our pop stars to be belligerent and antagonistic | Dorian Lynskey

As pop music hurtles headlong into crowd-pleasing mediocrity, audiences should cherish performers who take a stroppy and contrary standTen days ago a concert-goer at the Cedar Cultural Centre in Minneapolis made the mistake of shouting out a sarcastic request for the Knack's 1979 hit My Sharona towards the end of a show by Georgia indie-rocker Bradford Cox's Atlas Sound project. For his sins he was rewarded with a dissonant, hour-long, "death trance" version during which Cox free-associated spok...

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