There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.
Geoff RicklyThe future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.
Geoff RicklyPunk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger culture.
Geoff RicklyWe should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.
Geoff RicklyWhat we get in punk these days is the "anti-anti": Someone comes up with something, then the next generation is against that, and then the next generation is against that, and then that thing becomes a problem. There's these layers of anti-, and so many of them are just so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.
Geoff Rickly