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Picked to Click is an idea whose time has come and gone because in the wake of CP music editor Andrea Swensson’s ascendance, the advent of Vita.mn, and the outburst of fledgling local music blogs, new bands is all one hears about anymore. Another day, another holler. Back in the ’90s, we would chuckle on occasions when a CD release party was also the band’s farewell show. Today I am not amused how often the CD party is the live debut, accompanied by a breathless feature article in one media source if not five. There has never been a better time to be a mediocre new local band. Consequently, they are innumerable.

The print press would be easy to ignore if 89.3 the Current didn’t play these tadpoles in prime time, which fuels yet another round of the music press Ponzi scheme; one glad-hand washes the other. But for those of us who’ve bought local CDs for decades, the bubble is bursting and the songwriting meltdown is heading toward freefall. Minneapolis used to be a city with more musical greatness than glamour. After 20 years of P2C—and six months of Gayngs—can the same be said?

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