“”I think it’s the hottest scene in the country,”" says Lou Plaia, vice president of marketing at Lava, an Atlantic Records affiliate that recently signed two bands from the region. “”There’s this new sound, this ‘emo’ sound, that looks like it’s getting to be possibly the next big thing. And the biggest bands in that genre are coming from Long Island.”"

For the full text of this painfully myopic piece of journalism, courtesy of New York’s Newsday, read it here.