We've often been told in these heady days of the Internet that we don't need radio stations, record labels, or, cough cough, music critics, because listeners have easy access to music and no longer require gatekeepers. I'm a music critic and I still rely on such gatekeepers myself—without any sort of filter or direction I'd be wasting an awful lot of time slogging through the torrent of music that's sitting out there on the web, waiting for discovery.…
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