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3/7/07, 12:53 pm EST

Brett Lindenberg Finds Your New Favorite Band, Wins Assignment Number Seven

Everyone wants to say they were responsible for discovering the next Arcade Fire. For last week’s competition, you guys did some research and made your case for baby bands on the rise. We thought these ten finalists did a pretty good job of it. But it was Executive Editor Joe Levy who named the winner — Brett Lindenberg, who wrote about Meg & Dia — and two runners-up:

The winner is Brett Lindenberg’s piece on Meg & Dia, simply because a song about killing an ex-boyfriend and sewing his body into your mattress sounds way gangster for two girls from Utah on the coffee-house circuit.

Runners-up are Timothy Anderl’s profile on Moth of the Architect and Christina Poole’s piece on La Rocca.

Don’t sweat it if you have yet to prove your mettle as a cub journalist. You get yet another chance to show us your skills by entering the eighth installment of our contest — the mission is to locate a legitimate pop culture trend that hasn’t yet been identified by mainstream media — here. Deadline is Friday at noon EST.

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Liz | 3/11/2007, 9:21 am EST

JG- your description hardly sucks, however, you should have made it into two sentences [ once your sentence reaches a certain point, the reader stops paying attention ]. Not to mention, your obvious obsession with CYHSY is repetitively mentioned and quickly gets tiresome.

SOMETHING TO PONDER | 3/9/2007, 1:19 pm EST

The Rolling Stone Review of Quadrophenia gave it only 4 stars. They gave Nas’s new album 4 stars as well.
How can these people go to sleep at night comparing Nas’s semi-quasi-musical ranting to one of the greatest albums of the 20th century. Joe Levy should issue an apology to The Who

JG | 3/9/2007, 12:24 pm EST

Joel-

Just out of curiosity, what kinds of music descriptions were you looking for?

Here’s a description of mine from my piece about Mouthful of Bees, which was not chosen:

“Mouthful of Bees…create the kind of smart, anxious and angular pop that Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Tapes N’ Tapes are known for making…(they demonstrate) what kind of record “Some Loud Thunder” could have been if Clap Your Hands Say Yeah had stuck with just one musical direction”

Is that description too wordy? Are there too many mentions of CHYSY? If so, those are criticisms that I can accept and criticisms that are more than fair.

But at the same point in time, I think my description, at the very least, paints a very accurate picture of what MOB sounds like; especially if you’ve heard the record. Most music people are familiar with Tapes N’ Tapes and CYHSY, so namedropping them isn’t necessairly a bad thing, is it?

If I am deluded, and my description, in fact, sucks ass, then I have to wonder: what were you looking for, and what is an example of a good description?

I’ll be super grateful if you respond to this post, but understanding if you don’t. Have a good one.

Sincerely,
Jon Graef

Anonymous | 3/9/2007, 11:21 am EST

Unless I am missing something once you write the story there is no way to enter it.

craig | 3/8/2007, 9:22 pm EST

sure these suck, but rolling stone reviews are equally uninformative.

Mundane writing is the pit's! | 3/8/2007, 5:41 pm EST

I found the 300 word limit limiting. If these are bad, can you IMAGINE what he would’ve said about the other’s? EGAD’S!

Tim | 3/7/2007, 7:53 pm EST

Anyone write about elfshu yet

www.myspace.com/elfshu

Seth | 3/7/2007, 7:21 pm EST

I agree, I found the writing mundane. But congratulations Brett, you can’t get better unless someone tell’s you what your doing wrong.

Tim | 3/7/2007, 1:49 pm EST

Congrats Brett. Third time was a charm…

It is... | 3/7/2007, 1:07 pm EST

Mouth of the Architect. Not Moth…Yeesch.

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