“Kemp edited the now-defunct alternative music magazine, Option; worked as a senior music editor at Rolling Stone; was a music editorial vice president at MTV Networks, and was the entertainment editor of The Charlotte Observer.”
“As soon as my writers are in the firing line, then immediately, I’ve got to look after the best interests of my writers, you know. I’m definitely not going to take it down because the band asked me to.”
David Whitford wins an award for his piece “Squeezing Money from Music,” published in Fortune Small Business.
“Many believe they prefer that music retain its ‘mystery,’ and they say that a conscious understanding of its workings robs it of its magic. But this is like saying that an understanding of the chemistries of taste and smell would spoil a good meal.”
“Writer and all around creative juggernaut Amanda Stern eases the eternal tension by bringing both musicians and writers together for her Happy Ending Music and Reading Series, an irreverent night of readings and music, and by demanding that the readers commit to one ‘public risk.’” (thx again and again BF)
“This year, as in every year, I am looking for brilliant features, essays, profiles, news articles, interviews, creative non-fiction, fiction, book reviews, long-format reviews, blog posts, journal articles and the like on music and music culture-related topics.”
“If I told you that the music journalism industry might have had a slightly better year than last year, in the end it’s still as cheery as hearing that you’ve have genital warts instead of brain cancer - either way you look at it, the patient’s still got a lingering illness without a definitive cure, which might be a number of years in the making.”
Rockcritics has wrapped up their exhaustive look into the history and writers of Guitar Player magazine. It’s broken up, by writer, into the following eight parts:
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