MTV Blogs us. Thanks.

MTV's Subterranean music blog mentioned us today in a clever piece called "A&Ring MySpace Friend Requests." The editor picked four interesting bands off of myspace and reviewed them through the lens of an A&R exec.

Ehem: "They like country music and they like yacht rock. So they mushed them together and sprinkled some Ben Folds style piano rock on top. See that’s what we got out of it but they think their influenes are ELO, Bowie and Wilco, apparently. At any rate, we are not opposed to it. It makes our toes tap.

Verdict: Friends indeed."

Where did they get the idea that we like country music or yacht rock? I don't even know what yacht rock is. As for our influences - its true - we don't sound like any of those bands. But we don't really sound like anybody else so how do we address that ubiquitous query? Luckily, we make the editor's toes tap. Groovy!

PS. We were the lucky ones. The editor calls one band, "Not our friend," and another a 30 Seconds To Mars ripoff.

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