Is Everybody Who Edits the Village Voice Really This Stupid?

i didn't mean music writers specifically, i meant broadly people working in newspapers, magazines etc.

Jordan, just the man I wanted to see. "Terroristic" in the section? Please tell.

i think maura will be fine too! she is way smart and and i know its hard finding a gig like that but if anyone can find a cool gig she can. anyone working at the VV now must have one eye on the clock anyway. not exactly a job-security kinda joint anymore.

maybe she'll go work at rhapsody with chuck and rob!

for your convenience, voice media and idolator have now merged and will be known as violator.

yeah Maura will have other jobs, for sure, maybe a way better one. but she did THAT job really well and it was fun to be a small part of it, so i'm still gonna be bummed. (xpost lol)

clover are you aware that there's already a company called violator and its founder recently committed suicide?

"Terroristic" in the section? Please tell.

― dow, Friday, September 14, 2012 10:39 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

i'd just go and take a look at the LA weekly blog. or read any of the stories from today about maura being released and westhoff taking over. they've put all their chips on pageview whoring and outright trolling, along with doing things like breaking up a 600 word story into 4 pages. real dumpster diving shit. it's no way to sustain a business, either.

for your convenience, voice media and idolator have now merged and will be known as violator.

commentary and dissent have merged to form dysentery.

are you aware that there's already a company called dysentery and its founder recently pooped?

some dude -- oh man, i didn't put two and two together and recognize the bad-taste connotation to my joke. didn't intend that at all.

haha i wasn't saying your joke was in poor taste because of that, just was the association i made

yeah la weekly is generally completely unreadable but worse than ever over the past six months.

now that jonathan gold is gone, karina longworth is the only reason to read it.

maura should just have her own thing for real. or get together with her pal daphne and create a music website that has daphne's nu-best music writing series as an anchor maybe? and steal away all the ilxors who make pitchfork worth reading and have them write for it. and al too. and matos, i guess. he'll be in there somewhere. he always is! i can be the streaming netflix critic. that's all i know anymore. amanda palmer could help her kickstart it!

xp: and sometimes i skim the rollins column, but it's pretty self-aggrandizing.

is musto the last remnant of the 'real' voice left? not counting hentoff's sorta return, or other vets popping up w/ the occasional piece

the new food critic for the weekly seems to be a lot more negative and nitpicky than JG was. he always seemed to go w/"if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all" and skim over the bits he didn't like at places he thought were ok.

i liked gold's style of "yes, this restaurant serves this popular dish, but that's not why you go here."

Scott tying the day's threads together

I was supposed to do a Voice interview feature on CS Yeh's new album for October; time to find a new home for that I guess

Regimes end so suddenly in music journalism. It's scary and painful even after a decade plus of this sort of thing, not least b/c you develop a kindship w the people you write for

P.S. what up strongo

man i miss writing for strongo too. and our other CP eds that left this last year or two. fuck.

For reals, yeah. I mean, we're all on FB and junk but it isn't the same

The LA Weekly's been going downhill since 2010 when they started getting rid of some of their best writers, but yeah, the music coverage has been really lame in ht last year. The Rollins column, ech.

<3

i actually thought maura left of her own accord when i heard this, given the general sort of intransigence and cluelessness that VV media management traffic in, so i'm surprised to read the quote above where she said the decision wasn't hers

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, September 14, 2012 9:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow as did i. ughhhh @ all of this

nu-village voice in full effect!

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/09/lionel_knows_be.php

being as how the state of professional music journalism is so depressing here in 2012... thank god for ilx

i did not know lionel ritchie had gone country

I would urge people not to click on that link, pageviews are all these creeps want anyway.

the entry for Brandy in particular reads like something from a Jackie Harvey column

I would urge people not to click on that link, pageviews are all these creeps want anyway.

― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Saturday, September 15, 2012 2:45 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

Everyone just needs to relax. This thing that's happening to VV is a totally natural phenomenon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8

"Natural" or not, the fact that a once highly respected publication is losing another talented editor/writer, is not something that I want to "relax" about.

I'm saying the VV is the husk of an ant being driven to its inevitable demise by the brain-devouring fungus which is its pageview-driven new direction. Which is a metaphor. Involving a natural process that's completely horrifying and unrelaxing. Which is irony.

Ah. Ok

do they still have nsfw party pics?

ahhhh, "burlesque at the bell house". now that's what i'm talking about. 90 pages of titty pictures. i'm headed to applebee's. see you chumps later.

Huzzah.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/09/brian_mcmanus_n.php

Still so fucking pissed they fired (or did she quit?) Maura. She was the only reason I read that rag.

You mean you don't want countless listicles and articles about strippers? For shame.

can we have articles *by* strippers?

i don't think she's a stripper, and its not really an article, but the author of this Voice listicle was groped a lot by rando creepers at burning man.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/09/burning_man_gue.php

don't know why its in the music section either really. though i know there is music at burning man.

Still so fucking pissed they fired (or did she quit?) Maura. She was the only reason I read that rag.

― marginal victory, Monday, September 17, 2012

Per the NY Times blogpost posted upthread, she was fired

This new editor is so talented:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/09/reviews_of_wine.php

"Here at Sound of the City, however, we're fearless motherfuckers who refuse to be pushed around. Also, we're drunk."

Watch out guys, we've got a badass over here.

that's sort of an old school journalism thing... no more needlessly self-mythologizing tho

"no less" i mean

been dying for ANYONE to post something he's written that is, if not noteworthy, at least readable and justifies his existence. too lazy to do it on my own which is why I don't really give a shit. /internethardman

the wine thing is terrible. the one page of it i could take. should be on, like, the national lampoon website if they still have one.