NO, SERIOUSLY!

I love blurbs like this one, from the University newspaper here:

Genre-Defying Music

Localee (sic) band "Entheogen" isn't confined

by rules or traditional preconceptions of music. Page 19.

Aside from the misspelling and the ludicrious and unnecessary practice of putting rock band names in quotation marks, is it at all possible for this statement to be true? The band offers no song downloads on their website, but I note that they have a guitarist, a bass player, a drummer, and a singer, and unless I'm mistaken, they play these instruments in the traditional way -- the drummer hits his drums with drum sticks in a rhythmic way, the singer sings a melody, the guitarist plays chords or riffs and the bass player plays ones that complement them -- thus conforming to at least 95% percent of the "rules" for rock music and cementing all of my preconceived notions about what rock music is.


But this is nothing compared to the press release I got from the Militia Group yesterday touting the new Appleseed Cast album, which I don't have in front of me but which essentially states that everything that the band has done up until now is worthless, and that their new record is an incredibly cohesive piece of art that will make you wet your pants and weep with joy at its sheer perfection and completeness.

That just can't be true.