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Santa Fe Reporter posts article on what’s wrong with modern music

Pitchfork makes top of the list:

“Pitchfork should change its name to hipster-lessons-for-preteens-who-don’t-listen-to-anything-unless-we-tell-them-to.com. Now, instead of actually forming an opinion based on a group’s talent or musical merit, you can simply visit this website and be told what you’re supposed to like from a panel of idiots that leads the mediocrity-in-music campaign with such sanctimonious vigor, it makes me sick. Yes, criticism has a strong and valid position in the music world, but should be used as guidelines rather than words to live by. Do yourself a favor and choose for yourself. If one more person tells me what pitchfork said about something, it’ll mean a pitchfork in the face for that person.”

YES.

 I don’t know if I agree that there’s anything ‘wrong’ with modern music, but I do agree that there are definitely people out there who ONLY listen to what Pitchfork tells them to listen to, and it’s goddamn annoying. Are these people culture zombies or something? Good music and art is everywhere. It can be exposed to you through an accidental (or intentional) Google or Youtube search, through a little blurb or advertisement found in a bought or borrowed magazine, through a Myspace invite from an interesting band that no one’s ever heard of, through discovering that unique flautist who was vacationing in Rome and playing in the streets when you happened to be vacationing there, etc. Case in point, people need to stop being such trendy culture zombies for places like Pitchfork (or, just as bad, Rolling Stone) and be open-minded to anything and everything that comes their way from anywhere and everywhere.