New York Indie-Rock Audiences Are Stupid  Wilderness (not
pictured: douchebag audience)  Wilderness + Oxford Collapse +
Psychic Ills Mercury Lounge August 26, 2005  Are all New York
indie-rock audiences so full of shit? Do they all try to hijack
shows by bombarding out-of-town headlining bands with inane
heckles? Does the between-song ambient chatter always reach
college-cafeteria volumes? I hope not; I like indie-rock shows
in New York. I like how people actually show up, even when
bigger and better shows are happening at the same time, and I
like how promoters stack bills with local bands who are
generally better than local bands in other cities. I probably
shouldn't be making any vague sweeping pronouncements since I've
been to two indie-rock shows since I moved up (and no one was
going to heckle Smoosh because they're little kids), but it
seems to me that New York indie-rock shows would be pretty great
if you guys would shut up.  Wilderness didn't know how to handle
that stuff. When the band was playing,