Local Music Fans Respond to Howler Controversy

It all started on Friday, when a certain music podcast was posted on Guardian's website. In this podcast, Jordan Gatesmith of local band Howler (which is super famous in the UK, apparently) dissed the local music scene, and gave a particular negative "shout out" to the 4onthefloor. Andrea Swensson didn't think that was very cool and she wrote about it on the Local Current blog. Becky Lang of the Tangential also wrote about it. Twitter and Facebook comments started pouring in. You know that else is hopefully happening? Tons of people in the UK are Googling "the 4onthefloor." Thanks Howler!









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The Cloak Ox tops City Pages' Picked to Click 2011

The ballots are in for 2011's Picked to Click and, unsurprisingly, The Cloak Ox topped City Pages' annual best new bands list. Filling out the rest of the list: Poliça (#2), Howler (#4), Robust Worlds (#5), The 4onthefloor, blood&stuff (tied for #6), Nightosaur (#7), Gramma's Boyfriend, MaLLY (tied for #8), Dream Crusher, Elite Gymnastics (tied for #10), plus a couple of bands that have performed at LOL/OMG Meetups: UMAMI (#9) and Night Moves (#3).

A few choice Tweet responses:

Oh, we totally agree.

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Vita.mn announces Are You Local? contest winners

The finalists for Vita.mn's Are You Local? best new local band contest were just announced, and we got one out of three right from our picks for the contest we posted a while back. The winners are:

[Pictures of Then]

the 4onthefloor (one of our picks!)
Longshot
Pictures of Then (which played our January LOL/OMG meetup!)

The three bands will join Jeremy Messersmith, Phantom Tails and Ben Weaver on the Varsity Theater stage for the Are You Local?/SXSW Sendoff on March 4, and at the Vita.mn SXSW showcase in Austin, Texas.

Via @vita_mn

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