Let's get real for a second. The Internet is basically just a medium for stalking your enemies on Facebook and bitching about bands you don't like. Now that
the You Tell Concerts/Hipster Runoff beefhas run its course, we can focus on new and exciting dramarama. Or, I guess, a notoriously snarky comedy website calling out a local band. That's exciting, right? It is if you're a blogger.
Something Awful's Daryl Hall, not be confused (we're assuming) with Oates' better half, laid into nerd bands a couple weeks ago, with particular vitriol aimed at video game music cover bands and nerdcore rappers. He also took a few pot shots at a certain band of local robo-rockers:
That's my biggest contention with the genre on the whole: It doesn't serve the music, it serves this outside idea of an all-encompassing nerd-dom. Take, for example, The Protomen, a band that — and I am entirely serious — has thus far written two concept albums that take place in and tell the story of the Mega Man universe. This is literally the only thing that makes The Protomen notable. The music is neither particularly good nor especially terrible, but it really doesn't matter. What matters is the subject - that's what draws people in, that's why they wear Mega Man helmets during performances.
