RTP-area local music and culture

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It's no secret that I'm not a fan of the Eh, Whatever section of the
Indy.  And one of the reasons is because traveling bands don't realize
this section is meant to single-out an over-hyped/rated show each week
(they assume they got singled out individually)...so when Yeasayer
stumbled on to the review below (god knows, I didn't point it out) I
had to explain to them that our local weekly has this shitty section
that goes out of their way to dis the very bands who go out of their
way to come to this area.

With that said, wouldn't it have been a lot more productive to write a
paragraph telling the 200 plus show attendees why they should get
their early and see Soft Company than preach this so-called critique
to all the people who have no interest in these bands or this show.

>From this point forward, I will save myself the trouble of this
explanation by disgarding the 506 copies of the Indy that include one
of our shows in this section....glenn

ps: coindidentally, I am listening to Yeasayer right now...by choice!
I like them.

>EH, WHATEVER

01.17 YEASAYER/ MGMT @ LOCAL 506

Baltimore/ Brooklyn back-and-forths Yeasayer brandish a few dozen
sounds you may love--gamelan, screeching Neil Young, keyboard-float
Pink Floyd, arena rock monstrosity and so forth--in a diluted
distillation that's at turns ineffective or irksome. Sonically,
Yeasayer isn't far removed from the Technicolor melodic phases of TV
on the Radio or the hard rhythm-versus-smeared sound technique of
Animal Collective, but its apocalyptic images emerge from its sonic
mess without much punch. For bloggers, this may be "out music." I'd
rather stay in. Same for MGMT, New York nothings with major-label
moneys who fall in the same why-does-this-matter genus. Chapel Hill's
Soft Company is the better band on the bill.