ha, i love how that popmatters thing has a whole "correction" about my work history / benefits situation, despite both the original and the update coming entirely from someone's imagination.
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Sunday, 13 February 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
omg lol
― markers, Sunday, 13 February 2011 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
the benefits of fact checking
― markers, Sunday, 13 February 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
xp I definitely wrote a whole lot less when I was an editor than before or after (which I now regret, since in those days the Voice would have paid me for individual pieces on top of my salary, and I could have saved the money.) But nah, I've never stopped writing completely.
― xhuxk, Sunday, 13 February 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I took last week off because I was out of the country on assignment, and it's been a little weird getting back into a rhythm. But I've never stopped writing for any serious length of time in the last 15-16 years.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Sunday, 13 February 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, see, I ask because I have been pretty much retired for several years and tonight I have to review a show for a fairly large outlet and I hope I don't suck.....
― NYCNative, Sunday, 13 February 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Did it. Don't think it sucked but I could be told otherwise.
― NYCNative, Monday, 14 February 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey - can anyone point me to some live reviews they've particularly enjoyed? Seems to be a bit of a dark art compared to cd reviews.
― Evil Eau (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
much prefer writing live reviews compared to album reviews, myself.
― Republicans voiced concern about young pages hearing the word uterus (stevie), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/02/_lady_gaga_madi.php
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/blogs/pop-life/highlights-from-all-tomorrows-parties-the-perfect-rock-festival-20100908
― billy childish gambino (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Me too. I respond well to the immediacy/urgency of having to file a live review straight after the gig; the pressure energises me.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i love writing live reviews, and they present a set of challenges and pleasures totally different from album reviews
― Turn My Slag On (some dude), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I've enjoyed live-review-via-Twitter lately, which is much different than a formal review but is a great way to get the impressions together in one place.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I enjoyed writing live reviews although getting them done and going to my dayjob the next day was often tiring. I wish my review of Haitian Sweet Micky for the Washington Post was not hidden in their paid archive now that he just got elected President of Haiti.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
It's been archived for awhile I should say.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 10:38 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol @ the twitter exchange right after this post
http://twitter.com/#!/NedRaggett/status/55279463725928448
― Turn My Slag On (some dude), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Quite so!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Indeedly doodly!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i didn't want to post it in the thread, but there it is.
― billy childish gambino (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
#shotsfired #raggettseesall
― Turn My Slag On (some dude), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 2:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah, totally. it's also always nice to rediscover that yeah i can bang out decent words in a short space of time when i have to, absolutely no scope for procrastination or staring at a blank screen for 4 hours. they often come out pretty well too.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I have never really enjoyed doing them! Guess I'm alone in that. (Then again, I might like going to see live music less than most critics do, too.)
Anyway, I'm pretty sure my favorite live review I ever wrote is also my favorite Live review I ever wrote. (Okay, probably the only one, but still):
http://books.google.com/books?id=I4irI6O3Ko8C&pg=RA1-PA46&dq=Live+Philadelphia+Chuck+Eddy&hl=en&ei=WzObTdbkDdHPgAflwJ2BBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Live%20Philadelphia%20Chuck%20Eddy&f=false
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i really dug your south by ssouthwest gig reviews, chuck! totally entertaining. most live reviews are zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks, but yeah, live reviews are the most boring subset of music writing, always have been. I never liked editing them much, either. Really, what always seemed to work better for me is to talk about live shows in the course of longer essay pieces or features about the act in question; I've done that okay a few times in my life, I think.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
greg tate springsteen thing you put out is, like, the most recent review i can even remember that i really enjoyed.
http://www.villagevoice.com/1999-08-10/music/tear-the-roof-off-jungleland/
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
LIVE review that i really enjoyed.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
So, I just moved apartments and I have TONS AND TONS AND TONS of old magazines with my clips in them. If my name was in a mag, I just tossed the mag on a pile in my office. Well, the pile is huge and I'm not really sure I need it.
I keep telling myself I'll go through with an xacto knife and cut out all the whiney pages, but we all know that will never happen. (This is like those people on Hoarders who are like "I can fix all these broken toasters and sell them" When, exactly?)
This is especially complicated because now all those CMJs and SPINs are basically digitally archived on Google Books and Village Voice is pretty good with its digital archiving too. If I need to reference an old article, 100% of the time just go to the site. Should I just throw all these out? Should I keep them in case Google Books or the Voice site dies?
― livin' la vida Moka! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
For a while I used to scan all mine, but it soon became a pain in the arse.
― Evil Eau (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
wrong thread, whiney:
The Bragging Thread
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha!
xp: I scan my tearsheets and save 'em to a folder on my desktop. Do you own a scanner?
Note: I don't scan everything, just features, and don't even bother trying to keep track of my online-only stuff.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
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― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
― livin' la vida Moka! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
what the fuck?
― Evil Eau (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
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― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
d'oh
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
wow i'm trippin'
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
WHOA