Clichewatch II: The Writers’ Rebellion

noah | June 16, 2008 4:00 am

John Darnielle has a message for publicists: “Stop opening your one-sheets by announcing that the state of music is pretty dour but the artist whose music you yourself are putting out has somehow risen above the intolerable state of things. OK? Can you do that one thing for me, please, if not for the sake of your artists, whose promos get tossed aside by writers like, oh, me, the second we see a line about how we live in an era where music isn’t really so good, but fortunately for us, some band has come along to rescue us all?” [Last Plane To Jakarta]