YOUR BAND SUCKS: Jon Fine on How the Indie Cultural Revolution Changed America for the Better: “If you’re telling me Amazon is bad for culture, like seriously, f*** you,” memoirist of ’90s alt-music scene Fine tells Nick Gillespie in a new Reason TV video:

“If there’s anything that will turn you into a foaming-at-the-mouth Tea Party[er] and get you throwing stones at every liberal shibboleth you can get your hands on, it’s going to Oberlin,” Fine says. At the same time, his urge to create radically different music far beyond anything that was being played on MTV or commercial radio.

But then, it’s not a coincidence that the Velvet Underground’s Moe Tucker and Exene Cervenka of the punk band X saw an affinity with the Tea Party.  Or as somebody once sang, “When things get so big, I don’t trust them at all. You want some control, you’ve got to keep it small.” (Though curiously enough, somehow as a man of the far left, Peter Gabriel doesn’t extend his “DIY” advice to the size of government.)