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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Music The Misfats vs. Ezra Ace Whats-His-Face

Posted by Scott Moore on Thu, Mar 29 at 11:10 AM

Glenn Hamzinger, the lead singer of The Misfats—the oversized, food-obsessed Misfits cover band—apparently didn’t appreciate Ezra’s SXSW coverage.

On his blog, Hamzinger accused Ezra (the Mercury as a whole, actually) of being ignorant, self-righteous, exclusivist, arrogant, lazy, intolerant, and a fawning fellator.

It would be very presumptuous of me to be upset that we’re “not getting anything” (although I suppose that type of attitude would qualify me to be a music reviewer for the Mercury?) and then this whole argument could be about, “Wah, we were snubbed again and they don’t like us and they never talk about us and wah wah wah.” But the problem is much deeper than that, one I and many others have been witness to repeatedly.

Perhaps the “bad idea” here was sending someone to review the Portland bands at the show who already has a distaste for them? Someone who seemingly only values pop and post-punk and disregards all others? Or maybe the fact that it’s again just fully representative of the hipster arrogance that pervades the sponsoring publication’s music section?

To be fair, Ezra did refuse to buy the Misfats a soda pop.

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I thought all fat people were supposed to be jolly!

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