Music critics, while notoriously fussy, are charged with a daunting task: Objectively describing a purely nonobjective subject. Of course this also opens the floodgates for nearly anyone to pass themselves off as serious press. This is something that Johnny Bell, frontman for psych-punk band Crystal Antlers, is all too familiar with — though he doesn’t believe in what he reads, or more precisely, what he doesn’t read. “Everyone has their right to pontificate, but why listen to anyone else when now you have access to any music anywhere, anytime,” Bell said. “You think some 19-...
