Over the weekend, the Shins' Marty Crandall
was arrested for his involvement in a domestic dispute with his now-ex-girlfriend Elyse Sewell, a former
America's Next Top Model contestant who broke the news on her Livejournal shortly after she made bail. (The
post she wrote about the incident, which includes photos of her bruised arm, has been friendslocked at the advice of her legal counsel, but
it's been reproduced elsewhere.) Crandall was held over the weekend and has apparently since been released. As is often the case with ugh-inducing incidents involving indie rock semi-luminaries, the
Brooklyn Vegan post on the arrest has been the go-to place for the music-blog cognoscenti's reactions, and while some of them actually address the situation semi-intelligently, most of them are about as tasteful as you'd expect from a Web site that allows its readers to post anonymously:
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Apparently the folks at Vulture still have the stamina to scroll through the scores of concert pics and peanut-gallery members that populate the heavyweight blog Brooklyn Vegan, because someone over there noticed a recent trend in the site's endless, nearly wordless documentation of shows: "it seems that summer concertgoers—particularly women—now have to deal with blog photographers and their long-lens cameras." Yes, the combination of hot weather and hot women has apparently proven to be too much for whoever's selecting shots for the site these days, resulting in some craziness from all that heat. Quoth Vulture: "It was [Thursday's] recap of Feist's Prospect Park show that really started to edge into creepiness, with a few long-range shots of random women just hanging out.... We're sure the Feist fans in question loved checking in at Brooklyn Vegan to see voyeuresque photos of themselves above comments like 'more pictures of the indie sluts please' and 'I'd mushabang those Feist-type girls.' " Well, with come-ons like that, how could they refuse? Am I right, ladies?
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