I am writing to discuss your review of “Big Names on the Street” [Post No Bills] in the June 20 edition of the Reader.
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You state: “Taste of Lincoln Avenue has booked 10,000 Maniacs, but most of the 30-plus other acts it’s scheduled are the contemporary equivalent of those 80s bar bands, unoriginal if popular groups like Hello Dave, Underwater People, and Mike and Joe.”
Second, Hello Dave is all original music. They are a talented and profound musical group. Not that it is an insult for Hello Dave to be coupled with Underwater People, but you are lumping them into a style of entertainment that is not representative of their act. I am assuming that you have never seen one of their shows, because calling them unoriginal is a misrepresentation of the facts and needs to be retracted from the article.
