Class War Revisited!*

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

*no not that one.

http://www.slate.com/id/2176187/pagenum/all/#page_start - Carl Wilson's "The Trouble With Indie Rock", where he argues that "it's class, not race" (in response to that SFJ essay we talked about)

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[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

"Bestseller" also a dead giveaway here: it seems like the more obvious "problem" (or, to use a softer term, "bias") here is with the writers of these pieces and not the audience, since if we're talking about general music-consumption trends (in which case we need to talk about TEENAGERS and EMO) indie (the kind being discussed across the board lately) is of extremely little importance. Unless your point is that the music you used to like is all terrible, but no one is actually making this argument at the moment.