(The web version is here, but you won't find the picture there.)
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)
I'm not angry. I'm laughing.
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)
The latest in Young's long series of daring concept albums spins a cinematic yarn about a small-town family coping with a murder.
Also, isn't Ziggy Stardust as much a concept album as Tommy?
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)
Are Warren Zevon and Johnny Cash's last albums "concept albums" because all of the songs are about dying? What to make of Andrew WK? Or, for that matter, 99% of hip-hop? .― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Saturday, 6 December 2003 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Saturday, 6 December 2003 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)
Edna Gundersen, pop music critic at USA Today, has been covering music for 25 years, first in Texas, next in Washington, D.C. (after joining the national newspaper in 1986) and, since 1991, in Los Angeles. Gundersen has covered the Grammys for 16 years with varying degrees of success in predicting winners, possibly because wishful thinking tends to interfere with accurate readings of the voting body's politics, cluelessness and bad taste. She's had far better luck bagging interviews with music's top guns, most recently Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, U2, Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney. High points in 2001 included interviews with Bob Dylan and George Harrison. Rock bottom? Covering 'N Sync's song-and-dance circus at the Rose Bowl.
― spittle (spittle), Saturday, 6 December 2003 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 6 December 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)
http://ajr.org/2014/09/05/total-bloodbath-usa-today-journalists-recount-layoffs/
They laid off their pop music critic and others:
“They gave me all of five minutes and dismantled 11 years of work,” she said. “I had 15 minutes before they locked me out of my computer. I was trying like crazy to copy all of my contacts before I got locked out. “
Lopez was one of 60 to 70 employees laid off this week at USA Today in a move the company attributed to a need to cut costs in the face of declining print advertising revenue.
Gannett Co. recently announced it was spinning off its flagship national paper and 81 other newspapers into a company separate from its broadcast properties. The company said about half of those laid off worked in the newsroom, amounting to 8 percent of the total editorial staff.
Edna Gundersen @EdnaGundersenFollowToday is my last day at USA TODAY, after 30 years. I was laid off this morning, along with several great colleagues. Onward.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 September 2014 04:29 (eleven years ago)
vicious.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 8 September 2014 13:42 (eleven years ago)