RTP-area local music and culture

[John Iwaniszek <not AT hotmail.com>]

grady wrote:

> If your favorite CD review site couldn't be bothered to at least
> attempt to understand the very real appeal that the band has, then
> they're doing you a disservice. It's easy to take pot-shots at bands,
> and much moreso if they're popular, but for a band like the Arcade
> Fire, who are on a tiny label with a similarly tiny promo budget, to
> get as huge as they did based on their debut album and their live
> shows, there's clearly *something* at work there, and any critic who
> expects to be taken seriously should at least make an attempt to suss
> that out. 
> 

The "Eat shit - ten million flies can't be wrong" theory of music 
criticism.