When I went back to the States for two weeks for Christmas, my husband handed me a stack of music magazines that had been coming to the house for the past three months. I started looking through each magazine’s lists of “download now” singles as well as album reviews and it was enough to make me break out in a cold sweat! How could anyone keep up with all that they are supposed to listen to let alone afford it? And for all of the three and four star reviews (there are a lot of them) how many of the records are still spinning on the turntable of the critic six months from now? I doubt many, yet it is their business to make us all feel like we can’t live without the latest new thing.
Well, after reading this latest article from the Associated Press, it puts the above question in question. How much of the music that they get to review actually gets listened to? I am so glad that The Black Crowes called out the magazine on this. --J
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