New Artists, Old(ish) Songs: Amie Miriello covers Smashing Pumpkins, Melissa Ferrick covers Bush, The Kooks cover MGMT
...music that comes via email, especially not artists who come tagged with "folk rock" as a third choice MySpace afterthought. But though it speaks volumes about mass media usurpation of "folk" as a term of legitimacy, it also says surprisingly good things about the industry writ large that the same A&R exec who found Destiny's Child, Beyonce,...
