Crashingly Dull

By Alex Wendt

Thanks to Paul Bishop for getting this article to us. It ran in the Houston Chronicle yesterday, and is on their site somewhere at Houston Chronicle.com. It takes a password and some signup crap to view it, so Paul was nice enough to just send us the article.

It's another one of those mixed message articles, first talking about the 'original sound' and 'old-fashioned work ethic,' and then later calling them 'crashingly dull.'

I'm thinking about setting up a form mail page that would allow you to quickly and easily send out a 'Letter to the editor' of these newspapers (assuming they do have an e-mail addy for their "to the editors" stuff) that print these wack articles ... Let me know, from our contact page if you'd like something like this.

"The Dave Matthews Band is the kind of act a rock critic ought to be able to get behind. Through nonstop touring, the Virginia-based band has bonded with a loyal audience in a manner that goes much deeper than the latest buzz-bin hype."

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