[Updated May 26]

I just received this hype for Better Than Ezra’s CD-release party for Paper Empire at the House of Blues Friday night:

Better Than Ezra
Along with such similarly styled outfits as the Goo Goo Dolls, the New
Orleans-based trio Better Than Ezra helped open the floodgates for
countless mainstream alt-pop acts of the late ’90s (including
Semisonic, Matchbox Twenty, and Third Eye Blind) by merging rock with
melody to create an easily digestible form of alternative music.

Could that possibly make the band sound more like a blast from past, one whose accomplishments have to be explained to kids these days? And could that sound any more detached? The writer makes a BTE show sound as joyful as a trip to the library to return overdue books.

Update: BTE’s Tom Drummond says that didn’t come from the band’s PR firm. Now the question is where it came from.