When did the New York Press stop running music reviews?

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I don't look at it much, but in the past couple weeks I've noticed that there's no music section at all anymore. Is this a new thing? Is anybody upset about it? Was there a logic behind it? Does anyone care?

― chuck, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Eh, it's probably for the best that they don't bother. The writing over there is usually really awful and obnoxious, so it'd probably just be terrible.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

What with George Tabb do now?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

:::sigh::::

WILL, not with.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, so it is possible to run out of slurs to throw at the Strokes

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The only sad thing is that when JR Taylor actually bothers to write about music (as opposed to his myriad non-musical obsessions) he's a very smart guy. But it's kind of rare that his reviews don't take a turn into porn or reactionary Republican politics.

― dlp9001, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Where's Strausbaugh now? I sent him a pitch a couple months back before I realized Koyen had taken over. Whoops.

― Shaun (shaun), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know what else Strausbaugh's doing, but he was in the NY Times on Sunday.

The NY Press had some good music writing a few years back, especially Adam Heimlich (who I think still does restaurant writing for them).

― spittle (spittle), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

they'd been hiding the music section pretty effectively for a long while -- you'd have go somewhere in the middle of the listings section to find maybe one review if you were lucky -- but it's only been in the past month or so that i've noticed that it's actually not there.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

There was that wonderful review/raping of "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa-Pops" a few months ago. Printing that makes up for a multitude of sins.

http://www.nypress.com/16/35/news&columns/feature.cfm

― DougD, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"wonderful" my ass. ("review" my ass too, come to think of it.)

― chuck, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck, I wrote two reviews for NYP years ago. Then they told me "we're not using freelancers now." I persisted about a month or so later. They told me, "we're not having a music section anymore." This was within the past 3 years.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Just for fun, I'd love to see Armond take on some record reviews. He'd no doubt tear some sacred cows new assholes.

― Josh Timmermann (Josh Timmermann), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Or, wait, has he written record reviews that I've just never come across? I know he wrote a book about Tupac...

― Josh Timmermann (Josh Timmermann), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the Klosterman review is the biggest piece of shit I've read all year, and I'm not that big a fan of the book in question.

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

the Klosterman review is the biggest piece of shit I've read all year, and I'm not that big a fan of the book in question.

I heartily second this emotion.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 December 2003 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Armond White has written some record reviews.

I still remember seeing his review of Erasure's I Say I Say I Say in Rolling Stone.

― Unum, Thursday, 18 December 2003 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

If DePalma ever releases a CD of low-fi acoustic folk songs rest assured White will be first in line to gush about it.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 18 December 2003 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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