I think that’s what Fugazi...

October 16, 2013 #

I think that’s what Fugazi always did, but in a difference sense. I always felt like, as per their song “Reclamation,” that was always part of their project, was to try to pull something out of the wreckage and to carry on. With regards to doing the same thing over and over, there were people who were just eternally jaded about the band, who wrote off the whole band as some kind of boring, repetitive, Marxist clique, when the reality was that it was a group of hilarious goofballs who also had a lot of legitimate anger and a lot of astonishing musical activity. What can I say? There are a lot of people who don’t think politics should be in music, and as far as that’s concerned, they’ve deprived themselves of the Minutemen, and fuck them.

—Jem Cohen (director of Museum Hours) | Interview | Tiny Mix Tapes responding to “If you’re going to embrace a form of naiveté in the face of apocalypse, there could be worse terms for it.”

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