- Photo by Kelly O
Some of y'all got a little upset about the way Grant Brissey covered the new Fleet Foxes record:
Kris says: "This is completely retarded. Show some love for a rad local band."
Roger11 says: "Your music section is lame and out of touch. Luckily, we have a lot of interesting music blogs, written by people who actually enjoy music to fill the void."
letired says: "This is a truly awful piece of music 'journalism.' You should have just printed the pictures of cute animals, at least that would have had some redeeming value."
Well, I thought it was funny. The peacock was probably my favorite part ("Strutting.") with the giraffe being a close second. But if you want WORDS about the Fleet Foxes, well, we've already done that here, here, here, here, here, and here. Oh, and then they wrote for us here and here.
And in response to those comments calling for more attention to local bands and things written by people who "actually enjoy music," well, we do that too! Did you know that in every issue of The Stranger there is very often more than one article? It's true!
Just a couple pages away from Grant's Fleet Foxes feature, Kurt B. Reighly wrote a whole bunch of words about how great LOCAL duo Thousands are. If you like the Fleet Foxes, you'll probably like them. In fact, you should go see their show tonight. And Grant already posted a bunch of other music-related things you'll read in this week's issue.
And if you want to back it up even further, in the last month Dave Segal and Kelly O put together a great photo essay on Stop Biting's weekly breakdancing night at Lo-Fi (not a single picture of a fox to be seen!), Brissey gave some love to a new local band My Goodness, Trent Moorman interviewed Macklemore after he performed his Dave Neihaus tribute at the Mariners' opening day, Segal wrote a great music feature about local audio engineer Kearney Barton, and I don't have time to look up all the U&Cs where we've written about local bands, but this week alone you can read about the Royal Bear, Kithkin, the local record label ggnzla, the Head and the Heart, Throw Me the Statue, BOAT, Boy Eats Drum Machine, Wonderful, Big World Breaks, Cali Giraffes (formerly known as the Calligraphers—they rule!), and MORE. All by people who love music!
tl;dr: Really, I just wanted an excuse to photoshop that picture of a Siamang.
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