Overrated / Underrated 2009

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<B><u>OVERRATED</u></b><br> <br> <b>Beard-folk:</b> Don't get us wrong, we have greatly appreciated the gentle pleasures derived from Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes (pictured), Bowerbirds and the like, to say nothing of how fun it's been to watch aggressive facial hair overtake the fashion mainstream. But there's too much going in 2010 for artists to look like they just woke up in the forest. Time to break out the razors and hit our instruments with feeling again.

 

(Kevin P. Casey / For The Times)

OVERRATED

Beard-folk: Don't get us wrong, we have greatly appreciated the gentle pleasures derived from Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes (pictured), Bowerbirds and the like, to say nothing of how fun it's been to watch aggressive facial hair overtake the fashion mainstream. But there's too much going in 2010 for artists to look like they just woke up in the forest. Time to break out the razors and hit our instruments with feeling again.