nick sylvester = maker upper

I don't know the history of this story, but I wouldn't be surprised if this didn't reflect growing pains arising from the merger.

Apologies for being so off-topic.

like that's something you should have to make a special effort to do

"we'll run half real news and half The Onion, you guess which is which"

great idea

how many "music critic/satirists" are there out there? I didn't realize this was a whole category. i know of a lot of rock crits who'll let their sense humor show in what they write but Nick is one of the only ones who seemed to be operating on the premise that The Onion doesn't do enough indie rock gags.

Also I am totally using the argument that I was "fatiqued" next time I just make shit up for a paper.

This shit is getting really fucking huge, man. Despit all the snark on this page, I'm sincerely hoping Nick's OK.

This is the first lie I've read on this thread that bothers me.

this is just foul if they're trying to making a joke in that headline. Regardless of where you stand on the defending him/schadenfreude divide, dude is going through a lot right now.

Soon it will be like NME where any music review over 6 words is just too long.

how far away is "sincerity" and "bringing it back" from the hallowed tenets of rockism, anyway?

seconded. I stopped reading that shit when they were all "hey I wonder if the Halloween rapist is at a lunch meeting right now, maybe he'll get a book deal, har har har"

Wilonsky does music and movies in equal doses, Dominique. Does a lot of the old-man rock coverage, ie, when Lou Reed rolls through town. But rest assured, he's a very, very good music critic (Once upon a time, he was also music editor at the ol New Times LA).

its unreal how revolting the majority of this thread and "whats on nick's playist" are. i understand some of you dont like him/his writing, but lets have some fucking class.

something's amiss here. i find it hard to believe a hardvard grad who's been writing for the village voice,pitchfork, etc as long as he has(and who is an associate editor at the voice), would all of a sudden succumb to some sort of "pressure" from higher up.

what he did was wrong, but i dont buy the official narrative as to why.

From what I've heard, they've already got one in development.

From what I've heard, they've already got one in development.

-- Matthew C Perpetua (perpetu...), March 4th, 2006 12:19 AM.

blog under development, heh, that's rich.

(=probbly my favourite nme piece)

the lydon stuff must be on ilm somewhere geoff, though i forget where (haha or what my line was!)

http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/w/warlocks/surgery.shtml

http://tuningforkmedia.blogspot.com/2005/09/nick-sylvester-unleashes-fuckin-fury.html

in the end the Voice is just another cheezy tabloid these days

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But people don't just dislike Nick's writing. They take great offense to the flippancy he displays, not only toward his subject matter, but for writing in general. He's that one "funny" guy (with the painfully unfunny column) at your local college rag with a press pass and an expense account: not merely a bad comedian, but an honest-to-God asshole who is just begging for a comeuppance.

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BUT IT WAS GOING TO WORK THIS TIME I MIGHT HAVE ACTUALLY LEFT MY BASEMENT.

In my interview, the most interesting stuff happened after the camera was gone and we just started chatting about Canadians and the Second World War. He brought it up, and he sounded much older than his years, almost as if he were old enough to remember the Blitz himself. Talked about stories he'd heard about the Canadian soldiers in the U.K. vs. the Americans after the war and so on... His basic thrust was, "you canadians are alright, and if it weren't for you we might've lost the war, but the Yanks take all the credit". It was a very weird and ancient uncle-ish thing to hear Johnny Rotten saying. Perhaps it was a very North American epiphany, but I glimpsed in that conversation how differently the war weighed on Brits, and maybe that 1945 wasn't so distant in 1976. Maybe I'm reading more into the brief exchange than I should, but it definitely stuck with me more than any of the interview theatrics.