Pitchfork's hackademic tendencies have been exhaustively dealt with elsewhere (even on its own site), but you have to give credit where credit is due: calling the Foo Fighters "the grunge Wings" is the kind of in-the-pocket snark that only semi-disposable music criticism written by committed intellectual slummers can deliver.
And I mean that in the nicest way.
Only question is, what does that make Audioslave – the grunge West, Bruce, and Laing?
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
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