…and that band is Stereo Fuse.
Our publicist drops me an email and asks me to find a home for this CD he received by a band called Stereo Fuse. So I hit their MySpace page, and took a look at the bands that they have opened for (and will continue to open for, if there is any sense of right and wrong in the universe): Dishwalla, Creed, Default, Nine Days, Uncle Kracker, Evanescence, Sister Hazel and Lifehouse. That’s pretty much the Lollapalooza show that’s waiting for me in hell, right there.
And yet, somehow, Stereo Fuse are even worse. There is not an original thought, note, vocal, arrangement, anything about this band. Even their name sucks ass, and they all look ridiculous, with one guy with a soul patch, the other with the backwards baseball cap and the moustache-less beard, and the long-haired hippie. Of course, their MySpace page is crawling with hot chicks. Hot chicks with bad, bad taste.
The music industry can blame downloading all they want for what’s causing the sharp drop in sales, but the truth is, it’s bands like this that are killing them, because they make people not care about music anymore. Someone, please, clone Seymour Stein and Chris Blackwell, until there are enough copies of both of them to run every label. Otherwise, prepare for some label troglodyte to tell an up and coming band, “Well, if you really want to be stars, you’d try to sound more like Stereo Fuse.” Heaven help us.
