Information Leafblower's Top 40 Bands In America list, which surveyed 25 bloggers about their favorite American musicians, came out yesterday; the full list of nominated bands, which inexplicably includes Stellastarr*, is here. Don't go looking for too much outside the guitar-dude realm; IL proprietor Kyle Gustafson prefaced the list by saying, "I've emailed dance bloggers and hip-hop guys in years past and never get a response, so I didn't even bother this year. Get over it." So the list is heavy on rock-crit standbys (Bob Dylan, Wilco, Sleater-Kinney) and next-blog-things in wait (Lavender Diamond, Aberdeen City). We do have to give Gustafson credit, though, for using a totally cute piece of nature's clip art to illustrate the list, which we've broken down further below:
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