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Re: Why Portland is America's indie rock Mecca.
by satyr9us

Pampelmoose-- I'll be checking out your blog a lot in the near future. I'm young enough to have missed out on the great heyday of punk, but I got turned onto GO4 a couple years ago, and I spent a good hour earlier today listening hard to Entertainment!. There's a lot going on there aside from the fact that it just sounds brutally awesome. The wikipedia page on your band is reasonably good-- it likens you to The Velvet Underground in the sense that your influence on later bands far outstrips your initial album sales. And then, as I was reading that line in the article, the album's bonus tracks started playing and there was the Sweet Jane cover. Serendipitous.

Anyway I'm pretty sure that Night Owl's snark was directed toward the writer of the article.

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