The phrase “The rest is noise” keeps showing up in unexpected places. Earlier I noted the opening of the club The Rest Is Noise in Brixton, London:
The Armed Forces, a Nashville-based gutter-pop band, has released its debut album:
And don’t miss this mix tape by Bodega Bamz:
Korova, an Alabama hardcore band that has listed John Cage and Philip Glass among its influences, has a song called “The Rest Is Noise,”
which ends thus:
The tragic sovereignty of adult life
Has fought us tooth and nail
These verses are bleak
But they’re mine.
Fight on, noise brothers. On a lighter note, the British pop band Field Music promises “multilayered riffery” in “The Rest Is Noise,” on an album due next month.