When did NPR start talking about metal bands?

[Jbird]

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsong...are-made-up-but-alcests-kodama-sure-is-pretty

:rawk:

 

[yabba]

years now. they still don't talk about power metal though.

 

[Peen Simmons]

Yeah. Metal is painfully hep now.

 

[jp_nyc]

NPR debuted the last Electric Wizard album.

 

[Gary Blanchard]

Once metal fans reached the NPR demographics.

 

[wok]

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsong...are-made-up-but-alcests-kodama-sure-is-pretty

:rawk:

Because Alcest is super dull arty farty hipster shoegaze. Not metal

 

[Theodore]