Accolades for indie Saudi Arabia
NPR today introduced me to The AccoLade, an — get ready — all-girl indie alt-metal band (almost goth, judging from one single) from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. They sing in English.
I love NPR, but they can be annoyingly supercilious at times. Their reporter opined that most people are listening to them out of curiosity about the fact that they are an all-girl Saudi band (whose members have to perform anonymously), rather than “the quality of the music”. Go to Quranic Hades (?), NPR. It’s good music, if somewhat dated and formulaic. It would have been playable on the radio 14 years ago. This is reasonable. Presumably it takes a bit of time for goth rock to trickle into Jeddah.
So, yeah. Listen. And hope against hope for a continued lack of Fatwā/Fatwā/Fatw&amacron; (with any luck, at least one of those encodings will get the terminal a-avec-macron to show up properly [and thanks again, Jordon]).
And with this stroke of the cyberpen, I knock that frakking qvibepr attorney post off the front page….
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