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“A New York Times music critic recently mentioned his take on “blog rock”—music that is mostly defined by its mode of distribution and audience rather than the, y’know, sound. You could very well have been labeled “blog rock.” It does seem there is a huge music fan audience that spends most of it’s time and typing trying to keep in front of some race to see who knows what band first, and what band is already “so over”…
Blog rock! I associate that more with complete garbage electronic synth fart music. I’d hope that term wouldn’t be applied to us, especially now. The kind of stuff tossed around on blogs (excluding some of the bigger ones) is most often disposable trash, which I think is why it can be “so over” so quickly. If you eat a banana, you don’t really remember that banana for the next couple of years. If you eat a five-course meal at an upscale restaurant on your birthday, you remember that for the next couple of years at the very least. Blog rock is a banana. The five-course meal is Led Zeppelin or something, y’know?”
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