I guess its because I'm a little young to experience Sublime at their peak of popularity. I've always thought they made pretty much the best white-boy reggae around. They incorporated a lot of influences, they didn't try to put on some shitty Patois accent and they wrote songs about things that they probably did. I understand not liking a band for their fans but I really don't understand the complete and utter hatred of Sublime from anyone remotely involved in an indie music blog/website.
I think he means that they were more underground and never hit it big like Soundgarden did, so those guys don't have as much money put away.
Or he's throwing shade at them.
I gotta say, I don't understand the love for other pop stars Stereogum writers seem to have combined with the complete disdain for Ed Sheeran. Is he really that much worse than your Katy Perry's and Taylor Swift's?
Yeah, it is pretty funny that one of the songs that put people on to Kendrick was produced by Gambino. Or that he's been rapping since before he was famous. And you're right, 3005 sounds nothing like Hol' Up and the only way it resembles Drake is that is features a black guy who normally raps singing.
The massive hard on indie blogs have for Drake is getting pretty obnoxious really.
Is Stereogum going to start covering every time a rapper says they're the best now? This just seems like another excuse to shit on Donald Glover, which seems to be a lot of indie music bloggers' favorite past time.
Interestingly enough, KoL might actually have some influence on alt-J. Wiki says the band met at Leeds University in 2007, which would have made them somewhere around 14-16 when Youth and Young Manhood came out and KoL were absolutely massive in the UK.
To be fair though, those kind of bands are the bands being advertised and pushed by "alternative rock" radio stations and what not. They might not fit into your definiton of rock, or most peoples for that matter, but the industry considers those bands rock bands.
Linkin Park make commercialized pop metal, so this is pretty silly coming from them.
On the other hand, I honestly believe Chvrches are the most overrated "big" indie band to come around in quite a while. And I think Shinoda does have a point with his statement, even if it is a bit hypocritical.
I don't know who to side with.
I'm just baffled that we've made it through a whole article with THREE songs from the first album included and an entire comment section and no one has mentioned Dan the fuckin Automator!
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