Village Voice Media being acquired by New Times very soon

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most of the VVM music editors are already gone! they left of their own accord! hicks left city pages, matos left seattle weekly, friskics-warren left the scene...all within a few weeks of each other. it's kind of frightening, actually.

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

i've gotten work from ilm. i'm hardly the only one.

Indeed, and I won't complain.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I heard that ILX is going to be fired soon.

― Definitely Not Da Na Not! (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

http://eloise.cementhorizon.com/albums/christmas-on-16th-2004/Kati_Vol_flashing_the_bling.thumb.jpg

"Thanks, ILX!"

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

quarterly shares per nanosecond

http://staff.imsa.edu/science/geophysics/atmosphere/structure/ilx.gif

― Da Na Not! (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/9178/orly1rk.jpg

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

I'd like some work. Whose ass do I have to kiss?

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Results!

http://www.ably.co.jp/ilx/img/ilx.jpg

― Da Na Not! (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

most of the VVM music editors are already gone! they left of their own accord! hicks left city pages, matos left seattle weekly, friskics-warren left the scene...all within a few weeks of each other.

Sam Chennault left Miami NT before as well. Today is my last day at the office. Just moved my office stuff into storage. Apartment gets packed this upcoming week, then off to NYC.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Have Gun, Will Travel reads the card of a man,
A knight without armor in a savage land.
His fast gun for hire, heeds the calling wind,
A soldier of fortune is the man called Matos.
Matos, Matos, where do you roam?
Matos, Matos, far, far, from home.

He travels on to wherever he must:
A chess knight of silver is his badge of trust.
There are campfire legends that the plainsmen spin
Of the man with the gun, of the man called Mi-ch-ael-ang-elo.
Matos, Matos, where do you roam?
Matos, Matos, Far, far, from home.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

I love you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Mi-ch-ael-ang-elo

"-ch-"?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

matos your new landlord isn't named ralph by any chance, is he? cause i heard about the block you're moving to, and I USED TO LIVE ON THAT BLOCK! at #69, naturally. i am very very happy about your imminent return!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I don't know who the landlord is; it's a small-BR sublet for a couple months while I find a real place.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

good stuff.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

First Starbucks and now Matoses! What neighborhood did you end up picking?

Also, Da Na Not!, is your screen name the guitar line from Helmet's "Unsung"

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I knew Sam left MNT but...you guys are making funnies about the other music editor change-ups, right? RIGHT?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

i have accepted a well-paid position on burmese public radio

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

i leave april 1st

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

boom-boom

no, Raymond, I'm leaving, Dylan left, Friskics-Warren is leaving.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Chris: Park Slope

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Is everyone leaving because of the New Times or is it just a coincidence?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Having to run syndicated film reviews from other NT papers is making VV copy editors collectively weep. Gnashing of teeth and rending of garment soon to follow if this happens with music as well.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:44 (twenty years ago)

NT sucks, everybody knows it.

Sadly here in SF the SFBGuardian has a hard time competing (tho they DEF. have the better music writing staff - Kimberly Chun is great). The SFWeekly is totally trying to kill em, steal their ad dollars, etc. Oddly the SFWeekly just lost its music editor as well...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:54 (twenty years ago)

SFWeekly just lost its music editor as well...

before or after Jennifer Maerz took over? I'm guessing you mean before--Jennifer just started there a couple months ago.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:20 (twenty years ago)

Also, Da Na Not!, is your screen name the guitar line from Helmet's "Unsung"

It was initially meant to be just a bad Sha Na Na pun, but now that my now former appellation reminds me of Helmet thanks to you, I've changed it immediately!

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

I don't hate Helmet or anything. I just don't want to think of that song every day now...(because your observation was very OTM)

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Matos I'm referring to Garrett Kamps.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

All I can say is: if any changes to the affected weeklies are going to make these papers approximate the LA Weekly today, especially in markets like Minneapolis and Seattle, the weeklies are going to suuuuuuck, and probably die. I've never read a paper so insipid and unmomentous.

Everything about the current LA Weekly -- design, font choices, articles, and all -- scream "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ".

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

aint that the truth.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

I doubt any of the pre-buyout VVM papers are going to be the model for anything.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't think you can actually scream "ZZZZZZZZ."

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

I mean, the Voice itself is being made much more like the New Times papers, not the other way around. That's probably going to be how it goes everywhere else.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:30 (twenty years ago)

So a national trend of false quotes and lawsuits then.

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:33 (twenty years ago)

now, now

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)

east bay express still intact for the time being?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:59 (twenty years ago)

if i hear the words "rocky media landscape" one more time, i will eat my hat

― geeta (geeta), Saturday, 11 March 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

http://ianandmanda.typepad.com/blog/files/rocks-mt-well.jpg

― Zwan (miccio), Saturday, 11 March 2006 00:22 (twenty years ago)

East Bay Express is GREAT! For awhile there had better music writing than both the SFWeekly and the Bay Guardian.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 11 March 2006 00:25 (twenty years ago)

Welcome to Park Slope, Matos!

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 11 March 2006 01:03 (twenty years ago)

Excelsior &c.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 11 March 2006 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Oddly the SFWeekly just lost its music editor as well...

Garrett still works for SF Weekly. He moved to the front of the book.

― save the robot (save the robot), Saturday, 11 March 2006 02:56 (twenty years ago)

In the last Village Voice Clubrat Special podcast Christgau says "...the Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau -- soon to be deposed, by the way, they're kicking me out..."

Does anyone know if this is true?

― Chuck B, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:19 (twenty years ago)

The Larry Summers of the music journalism world.

― Mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

I think he meant American rock critics no longer want him to be their dean.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

wait, you just admitted to listening to a Christgau podcast?

― meth lab for doug flutie (sanskrit), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

he comes off like a hip larry king!

― ant@work, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

I just noticed that Riff Raff is GONE from the music page. Does this mean that they fired Nick, or just that his blog’s on “hiatus”?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

still there:
http://villagevoice.com/blogs/riffraff/

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:44 (twenty years ago)

yeah, okay, but:

http://villagevoice.com/music/

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

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