Comments on: Battle of the Beards http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2008/12/17/battle-of-the-beards/ Music matters as if music mattered Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:22:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ben Blackburn http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2008/12/17/battle-of-the-beards/comment-page-1/#comment-484 Ben Blackburn Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:02:57 +0000 http://stuckbetweenstations.org/?p=641#comment-484 having once been aquanted with Garth and his lovely wife Maud, I am glad to see that he is the the co-torch bearer for musical beards. However......I feel that to leave the great bass player Lee Sklar out of this discussion was a big mistake. having once been aquanted with Garth and his lovely wife Maud, I am glad to see that he is the the co-torch bearer for musical beards. However……I feel that to leave the great bass player Lee Sklar out of this discussion was a big mistake.

]]> By: shacker http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2008/12/17/battle-of-the-beards/comment-page-1/#comment-478 shacker Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:47:16 +0000 http://stuckbetweenstations.org/?p=641#comment-478 In the current episode of NPR's <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97939029" rel="nofollow">All Songs Considered</a>, the Modern Beards topic comes up, and Carrie Brownstein riffs about beard boys looking to Fleet Foxes for a sense of validation. Poetry. This appears not just to be the year of beards in alt.pop, but also the <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/17/handmade-beards.html" rel="nofollow">Year of Handmade Beards</a>: <img src="http://stuckbetweenstations.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/beards.jpg"> But I'm sorry to report that not a soul on this list holds a candle to the serious beard farmers of the <a href="http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/" rel="nofollow">World Beard and Mustache Competition</a>. In the current episode of NPR’s All Songs Considered, the Modern Beards topic comes up, and Carrie Brownstein riffs about beard boys looking to Fleet Foxes for a sense of validation. Poetry.

This appears not just to be the year of beards in alt.pop, but also the Year of Handmade Beards:

But I’m sorry to report that not a soul on this list holds a candle to the serious beard farmers of the World Beard and Mustache Competition.

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