Does hating rock make you a music critic?

Does hating rock make you a music critic?
Slate - By far the most-discussed piece of popular music criticism of the past several years at least among pop music critics was Kelefa Sanneh's October 2004 New York Times article, " The Rap Against Rockism ," which took a long-running conversation in
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Garage punks wryly needle religion; jazz stars skewer Orwellian
San Francisco Weekly - Northwest No Wave shakes some well-coiffed plumage at tonight's pairing of Troubleman Unlimited labelmates. Portland's Glass Candy does Debbie Harry disco re-envisioned as fidgety art rock. Singer Ida No is a captivating ice queen of an entertainer
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Q&A: Mark Martin
NASCAR - Martin: We've really been performing well. We've had really outstanding cars this year with our Fusion and, I don't know, you know, I don't like to make predictions, but I don't think that it would be a prediction to say that we expect to run real
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5th teen arrested in videotaped fights
Seattle Post Intelligencer - ARLINGTON, Texas -- A fifth teen was arrested Thursday in a case where authorities said fights were staged, recorded and sold on DVDs. Police charged Folarin Olawoye, 19, with engaging in organized criminal activity/aggravated assault. The four
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'Industry of cool' plagues unheard voices of rap
Lantern - "They will ruin rock n' roll and strangle everything we love about it, right? And then it just becomes an industry of cool." During a recent viewing of "Almost Famous," this quote by rock critic Lester Bangs stirred something in my mind. A strange
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Tolerance for a Racial Slur Is a Test for Potential Jurors
New York Times - Potential jurors for the trial of a 19-year-old charged in a bias attack in Howard Beach last summer have been asked some unusual questions during jury selection: Do they listen to rap music? Are they familiar with hip-hop culture? Yesterday, the
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