Whenever you say that so-and-so scene is dead it tends to come roaring back to life. Well, let’s hope that’s true because as of now original boundary pushing Brooklyn music is dead. The days of Liars, TV On The Radio and Yeah Yeah Yeahs running the roost are long gone, even if their contemporaries in Gang Gang Dance and Oneida still call Bill’burg home. Animal Collective have collectively jumped ship to work with each other remotely from homes in sea castles or France or something.

The last great musical export from Brooklyn might be Oneohtrix Point Never, a dramatic atmospheric electronic act that would barely register for your average fan of proper rock or even poppier electronic music. Sure his new record as part of Ford & Lopitan is a pop corrective, but it has not connected in a way that has broken him open. Possibly the most relevant on the cusp of exploding music on the New York landscape is being made by Das Racist, a rap group that has blossomed from a novelty into an unlikely meme creating dynamic musical act. They’re from QUEENS THOUGH!

There is of course no magic bullet to save the Brooklyn music scene and skyrockitting rents are not making things any easier. Instead the new trend in Brooklyn music is to shit on everyone. I feel I have done my part.