{"id":3561,"date":"2012-08-31T16:24:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/underground-rocks-ace-of-debasement\/"},"modified":"2012-09-06T16:33:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T23:33:50","slug":"underground-rocks-ace-of-debasement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/31\/underground-rocks-ace-of-debasement\/","title":{"rendered":"Underground Rock&#8217;s Ace Of Debasement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/articles\/swans-leader-m-gira-say-no-society-record-labels-touring-your-spouse\" target=\"_blank\">from SPIN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Swans Leader M. Gira: Say No to Society, Record Labels, Touring With Your Spouse<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/writers\/kory-grow\" target=\"_blank\">Kory Grow<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/writers\/kory-grow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/mgira.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how Kim and Thurston did it for so long.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Over the past three decades, Michael Gira has established himself as underground rock&#8217;s ace of debasement. From the brutal, self-pugilistic caterwauls of sludgy art-rockers Swans to the brittle, American Gothic doom-folk he recorded with Angels of Light, he strips music down to its harrowing, bare-bones essentials. It&#8217;s no wonder, then, that his acidic bellowing and post-blues licks resound in the works of industro-rockers like Godflesh and heady metallers like Neurosis as much as experimental folk artists like James Blackshaw and Wooden Wand. Since 1990, he&#8217;s applied the same principles to running his home-brewed record label Young God, launching the careers of freaky folks like Devendra Banhart and Akron\/Family; running his business with a cutthroat, do-it-yourself attitude a good decade before the rest of the internet followed suit. He is an iconoclast&#8217;s iconoclast, so, we asked him to explain his outlook on life on the eve of the release of Swans&#8217; 12th album, the relentless, cinematic, two-hour bludgeon <em>The Seer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/articles\/swans-leader-m-gira-say-no-society-record-labels-touring-your-spouse\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at SPIN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from SPIN Swans Leader M. Gira: Say No to Society, Record Labels, Touring With Your Spouse by\u00a0Kory Grow &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how Kim and Thurston did it for so long.&#8221; Over the past three decades, Michael Gira has established himself as underground rock&#8217;s ace of debasement. From the brutal, self-pugilistic caterwauls of sludgy art-rockers Swans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}