60 free week music listingsJohn lydon,aka Johnnyrotten,commandsPublic imageltd at funfun fun fest,nov. 3, 2012.g a r y m i l l e rDeeper WaterAlbums in 2012: Loss leaderBy r aoul Hernandez“I am no vulture. This is my culture!”– Public Image Ltd, “One Drop”From the cheap seats, back by the fencekeeping Riverside Drive at bay, Fun Fun FunFest’s headlining stage on AuditoriumShores washed Public Image Ltd over me inwaves. Woodstock vets remember musicpulsing up the hills of humanity that transformedMax Yasgur’s farm into the decade’sdefining amphitheatre. PiL proved my ownpersonal tsunami.By the time “Deeper Water” drew me likea tractor beam to within 20 yards of theEnglish quartet, my jaw hung open. Neverhad I heard a singer modulate such a powerfulvoice within each line and verse, exceptperhaps Plácido Domingo. <strong>The</strong> LP beingpromoted, This Is PiL – the group’s first inmore than two decades – plumbed its frontman’swaterways, and the onetime revolutionarygave the <strong>Chronicle</strong> his most poeticinterview during the album’s press cycle(revisit “This Is PiL,” Nov. 2, 2012). Neitherprepared me for the actual performance.I kept flashing back to 1982, when I was a teenagerwitnessing the Clash in San Francisco, JoeStrummer’s shooting-star provocation all but settinga rickety wooden theatre afire. As the FFFcrowd began dispersing over the remainder ofthe hourlong set, all I could think – me, whohadn’t previously owned even a single PiL platter– was: “Do any of these people know that’sJohnny Rotten up there?” Never mind the SexPistols, John Lydon’s current crew balled punk,reggae, and tidal rock & roll into one mystic fist.Today, I’m as bonded to This Is PiL as theClash’s desert island dubwise disc, Sandinista!.Meanwhile, CDs continue ceding sales to vinylrecords and downloads, so the album itselferodes ever more into a loss leader for performers,merchandise to hawk on tour while collectingdecreasing royalties across digital modes ofdelivery (absorb “Pennies From Heaven,” May18, 2012).Musicians aren’t likely to forsake the albumanytime soon. Spotify, in fact, makes it easier tosample them. Greater global consensus, on theother hand, might become as ephemeral as thelast music festival you attended.n<strong>Top</strong> <strong>10</strong> NaTioNal<strong>Top</strong> 20 NaTioNal<strong>Top</strong> <strong>10</strong> localTeN locals you MisseD a DozeN if NoTeighT ausTiN eps1) Bruce Springsteen, 11) Leonard Cohen, 1) Gary Clark Jr., Blak and 1) Deep Time (Hardly Art) ViNyl oNly locals, 1) <strong>The</strong> Saint JamesWrecking Ball (Columbia) Old Ideas (Columbia)Blu (Warner Bros.) 2) <strong>The</strong> Bad Lovers,Society (Tee Pee)<strong>The</strong>N ViNyl MosTly2) David Byrne &12) Cody Chesnutt,2) Alejandro Escovedo, Actin’ Strange (Burger City)2) <strong>The</strong> League ofSt. Vincent,Landing on a Hundred Big Station (Fantasy) 3) Manuel Cowboy Donley1) <strong>The</strong> Golden Boys,Extraordinary G’z,Love This Giant (4AD)(Vibration Vineyard) 3) Heartless Bastards, & His Trio Romantic-o,Dirty Fingernails (12XU)<strong>The</strong> Plug3) Royal Headache13) Big K.R.I.T.,Arrow (Partisan)<strong>The</strong> Brown Recluse2) Foreign Mothers,3) Gary Clark Jr.,(What’s Your Rupture) Live From the Underground 4) Willie Nelson,Sessions (Mini)Duh (Thread Pull)HWUL Raw Cuts Vol. 14) Father John Misty,(Island Def Jam)Heroes (Sony Legacy) 4) Kingdom of Suicide3) A Giant Dog,(Warner Bros.)Fear Fun (Sub Pop) 14) <strong>The</strong> Men, Open Your 5) <strong>The</strong> Golden Boys,Lovers, Distant WavesFight (Tic Tac Totally)4) East Cameron5) Jimmy Cliff,Heart (Sacred Bones) Dirty Fingernails (12XU) (Golden Hour/Super Secret)4) Dikes of Holland,Folkcore, <strong>The</strong> SunRebirth (UMe)15) Sharon Van Etten, 6) Flesh Lights,5) <strong>The</strong> Coffee Sergeants,Braindead USA (Screamers)Also Rises6) Baroness,Tramp (Jagjaguwar)Too Big to FailPurple Martin Sanctuary5) Doug Sahm, <strong>The</strong> Return of5) Burgess Meredith,Yellow & Green (Relapse) 16) Witchcraft, Legend (Super Secret)(Monkey’s Paw)Wayne Douglas (Steady Boy)Banana Moon7) Killer Mike,(Nuclear Blast)7) <strong>The</strong> Flatlanders, 6) Amy Annelle,6) Pong, Live at the Continental6) Grace London,R.A.P. 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