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Posted by A.C. Rhodes on January 16, 2008
We were as surprised as anyone upon hearing about being voted Best Music Blog by our fellow writers and rock journalism enthusiasts who read the Music Blog Report. The MBR is a tremendous reference for music news, the comings and goings of biz types and job availabilities.
We were up against some serious competition. Check it out for yourselves, and don’t trip all over congratulating us:
http://www.musicpressreport.com/2008/01/13/2007-music-press-awards-winners/
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Posted by s woods on January 16, 2008
Sour CREEM
The life, death and strange resurrection of America’s only rock ‘n’ roll magazine: the first of two parts
By Bill Holdship (Metro Times)
This is the mammoth Creem piece Bill mentioned he was working on a few weeks back in his blog entry. Excellent stuff–great summation of the ‘zine’s formative years (though I wish there was a little more about contributors other than Bangs), and it ends with a zinger… can’t wait for part two.
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Posted by s woods on January 14, 2008
I look forward to reading Jason Gross’s 2007 edition of the “Best Music Scribing Awards,” now online at PopMatters. When Jason told me several months ago he was moving this feature from rockcritics into PopMatters–where he writes a daily blog about the music business–I was a bit disappointed, but I thought the move made a lot of sense for him. And I have to say, though I haven’t yet read a word of it, the piece looks really good (and I think it was a smart move to trim his categories down this year). Important thing is that the piece is available–and that it will be next year, and the year after that, and the… etc.
Here are the previous editions of Jason’s roundup:
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Posted by A.C. Rhodes on January 13, 2008
contain in order to interest, inspire or excite you?
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Posted by s woods on January 13, 2008
CBC had an interesting interview with Dave Marsh recently, discussing his new book about The Beatles Second Album. Part of the Wed. Jan. 9 podcast, available here.
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Posted by s woods on January 8, 2008
Phil Dellio devoted his bi-monthly Sunday morning radio show last week (on CKLN in Toronto) by playing 90 minutes worth of music by rock critics, a theme you often hear about but don’t often get to hear (at least not compiled in one place). It was a great set, featuring tunes by Vom (Meltzer), Insect Trust (Robert Palmer), Pet Shop Boys (Neil Tennant), Yo La Tengo (Ira Kaplan), Christopher Milk (John Mendelssohn), and, um, DJ Shoe (yours truly…)–among other critical luminaries, past and present.
Here’s Phil’s playlist.
And here’s 3/4 of the show, which I was able to capture in mp3 format (I join in progress a little late, midway thru the Dictators, and was forced to fade out at the end during the Delinquents tune).
Sub-question: What other examples are there, good or bad, of critics making music, that Phil doesn’t cover here?
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Posted by A.C. Rhodes on January 8, 2008
Paul Westerberg once said that rock & roll has nothing to do with politics. Perhaps another Minnesota native may think differently, or not. Has music with a political bent been more inspiring, or more boring?
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Posted by A.C. Rhodes on January 5, 2008
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Posted by A.C. Rhodes on January 3, 2008
AR: Tell me about the book. How did the idea first come about?
RM: No brainer, it was never not an idea. So many tried to do it over the years. I’m not saying that I was the right person, but the only one to get it done. After we started the website archive and then the new era Creem, the readers never stopped asking for it. Since Brian and I had spent so much time with the old issues over the last four years, we knew what was good and where to go. Greg Allen, our art director, had been working with us on the website as well, so it came together pretty fast. We only had three weeks for the first submission, then for corrections, proofing, etc. In that time I went to Rod Stewart, Alice Cooper, and Iggy Pop for their color comments, we’d add those while Harper Collins was doing test runs on the photos and proofing. And I’ve told the story how I, or how Brian Bowe found me…
AR: When did you meet him?
RM: He started writing via the website; little emails about what he was into, sensibilities and musical taste, that kind of thing. His love of the MC5 and all things related encouraged me to re-embrace my Detroit music roots as well. So, he started doing some reviews for the website. Richard Riegel and Dave DiMartino were always touchstones with the website archive, the direction we should be taking it, that kind of thing. I asked them how we were going to find the next editor. They both had the same take as Brian began to write more, saying how they enjoyed his work – kind of casting their votes without knowing it. Brian in turn brought some fine new young blood in, writers that he had in his class at Grand Valley. So, his expertise would be from being a journalism professor, working at a couple of newspapers and editing the Creem website the past four years. By any means, the way that Brian got involved was, as we say, very blowjobian. Creem brought Brian out to Coachella the year the Stooges reformed. I gave him my extra photo pass and a camera and took him into the pit to see the Stooges up close. While waiting for them to start, I told him how we thought that he should be the first editor of Creem in its new life. The Stooges tore into “Loose” and that was that.
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