I like Slipknot. But I really can't figure whether it is really all just an act, or if they really are American. It doesn't make a difference what they look like to me anyway. I let the music speak for itself. I like it. It's all very well constructed and there is some serious riffage.
I also like Limp Bizkit for sheer fun factor. It's like Destiny's Child and Westlife! They're all great. I have all the Westlife and Britney records.

again you seem to have the impression that i'd like to run the site with some fascist imposition of my personal tastes. nope. slipknot and their like just depress the fuck out of me and i don't see why they're worth the attention. a lot of stuff gets reviewed on here that's probably sounds worse than slipknot and i don't complain. at least they're trying to put something sincere or new into the music scene and theyre not just a sad derivative joke of a band whose success comes from exploiting fucked up teenagers with the most phoney load of crap i've ever come across...

ah well enough about slipknot. my other point is that all this holier-than-thou stuff about how we have to cover every area of the music scene and aren't allowed to make any kind of decisions about what we do or don't want to feature... how many fanzines or even magazines have you read that try to cover every part of the music scene? what's the point in trying to please all the people all the time? when it comes down to it the vast majority of writers and visitors here have some variety of indie/alternative/lo-fi/punk/leftfield bias and it's pointless trying to pretend we're not biased towards that kinda stuff. i think it's good to expand peoples horizons beyond whatever genres theyre currently into, but i mean that in the sense of exciting new underground or creative or original stuff. personally i'm extremely grateful for the fact that people helped me expand my horizons beyond the mostly indie/alternative stuff i was listening to around age 16 and got me into post-rock and electronica and various other exciting areas of the new music scene. that's what i think we should be doing here.

putting up reviews of slipknot and limp bizkit though, isn't going to expand people's horizons any more than us reviewing shiteloads of r&b chart wank... people have heard it already... it's all over the place... the majority of visitors here are gonna dislike it, whether that strikes you as indie snobbery or not...

sure, we could review lots of that kinda thing on the basis that it'll attract lots of new readers from the 14 year old metaller bracket, or the r&b/garage following, but then... frankly what's the point? that's totally losing sight of the reasons i became involved with drowned in sound. i don't want to see it become overrun by nu-metallers. i also dislike the kind of indie-snobs-in-denial who pretend to like, or even slowly force themselves to like some populist genre just to prove a point... or even worse to look ironic and cool... i'm not saying thats always the reason but sometimes it is and it really annoys me.

ultimately everyone has some kind of agenda about music and i think anyone who pretends to like or tolerate or defends everything is a complete hypocrite. we're all music snobs of some kind or another, whether you want to admit it or not. ultimately there's a point at which even the most supposedly tolerant person would leave. pick a genre or set of bands you hate. the more they get featured on here, the less it becomes something you can or want to identify with. maybe that sounds cynical but its true. if the agendas among contributors here become so disparate then maybe we should consider splitting it up. i don't know. the mix seems just about right at the moment but it has been hijacked/heading off in the nu-metal/skapunk somewhat recently and i guess thats what got me started on this long pointless rant. it's clearly heading nowhere so i'll shut up now