If we received a nickel every time a musician complained to us about genre categories we'd be able to buy a luxury condo in Central Park. Sure, there are too many subgenres and bands tend to get pigeonholed within music types, but as someone famous once said, writing about music is like dancing to architecture. In order to give readers an idea of what a band sounds like, it's necessary to present terms that they understand. And, to be honest, the only ones we've really heard gripe about critics categorizing bands are the bands that don't wish to be placed in those particular categories, even if they accurately describe their music. Having said that, here's In This Moment's Chris Howorth sounding off about his distaste of genres. Click more for the guest blog. Read more...
