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...fate and the challenge of the up-and-coming artist. How can today’s artist feel comfortable being creative knowing that their music will inevitably fall short of the highs reached by a century’s worth of pop music?The title of Toronto band Metric??s second album does justice to this longing frustration: “Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?” The ’60s counterculture had Haight-Ashbury, the punks had the Bowery—so what do we get? The rise of irony in indie...
...September to May, and it snows several feet a week,” I bragged to people on the streets. To my astonishment, some people didn’t even have an idea of how much a foot was! Instead, they told me about their strange “metric?? system, one based on actual logic and good sense. It was simply bizarre. To make things worse, some of them didn’t even speak English! My facial hair was disgusted, and I stayed up many a night musing about...
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