A fellow music writer/critic wrote two interesting things recently on his own blog, one of which I agree with and the other I find contentious.
He stated that we shouldn't be supporting local music just because it's local - rather we should judge each band on their own merits and to the standards we would apply to music from anywhere else.
This isn't a new proposition, but it's one that took me some time to come around to. When I initially heard it (in response to the annual New Zealand Music Month) I disagreed and felt that we should support local music over music from overseas.
