'In Defense of Crowdsourcing Your Music'
Casey writes a solid response to the Weingarten rant. In part:
A professional critic believes only he can listen to rock, electronica and hip-hop and have something interesting to say about all three. But you know who else can do that? Everyone on earth. Read your friends’ musical interests on Facebook or MySpace — half of them say they like 'everything.' I’ve yet to meet one of these straw men Weingarten describes, the ones that listen only to metal or hip hop or bands that play exclusively on a three-block stretch of Williamsburg. To be alive today is to sing Grizzly Bear in the shower, blast T-Pain on the ride to work, hum Coldplay in the grocery store, rock Jay Z at the gym, and have Jose Gonzalez sing you to sleep. And we do it all without Rolling Stone's help.
