Craig Hlavaty over at The Village Voice wrote an amusing post—albeit a wee mean-spirited, but funny nonetheless—about the most overused terms in SXSW band bios.

Here are a few of the offenders according to Hlavaty:

“Raucousness”
Just say you like cocaine. It’s 2013, it’s okay. You can just say it is an act.

“Art School”
Fuck you.

“Swathed”
Ohhhhhh, someone is a reader!!!

“Psych-WHATEVER”
Urgh, a psych war! I remember there was a local writer out here who called anything with reverb “psych” and it bothered me. Even the Wild Moccasins were “psych.” It was annoying.

See also: Psychedelica, Psych-ridden, Psych-folk, Psych-damaged, et al.

“Cathartic”
Telling your dad that you hated him for the first 20 years of your life for cheating on your mother is cathartic. Your band is not cathartic. Your band is NPR background noise.

“Swirling Synths”
Can synths do anything else but swirl?

Read the rest of the list at Village Voice.

Via WFMU