Interesting review of the Non-Comm's Thursday/Friday line-up, from a Dover Post writer.

Link to full review:
http://www.doverpost.com/newsnow/x1555986498/Observations-from-NON-COMM-Day-One-at-World-Cafe-Live?photo=0

I found the writer's review of Thurston Moore (aside: how does Moore look so young again?  Is that actually a picture of someone else?  What happened to the head full of gray hair?) surprisingly apt and insightful. 

The writer lost a little ground with subsequent reviews, when it became apparent that she is simply not a fan of the genres some bands were representing.   It's okay to say "I'm not a fan of music in this vein, so my opinion may be biased, BUT...".  Instead, one of her reviews boiled down to "They didn't make enough noise.  Rock out more!"  And "loud" is just not what that particular band is, so that's a little unfair.   It would be more fair to say "What they do has been done, and while they do it well, they don't add anything new to that subset of indie rock". 

But still, coming from The Dover Post, this music review was interesting and well-written - more so than reviews I've read in the upstate papers.  And I totally agree with the writer's complaint that the Queen has been a little too geared toward the over-50 crowd (much like its main rival, The Grand) so far.  But I disagree that the difference between over-50 and under-50 music is simply a question of "loud" or "not loud", and that any band not melting faces with their sheer volume must naturally be one of the over-50 picks.