The Village Voice Pazz & Jop Ripoff Poll: Q&A with Glenn Boothe
The spirit and methodology if not the copyright of Pazz & Jop currently carries forward in the cheekily named Village Voice Pazz & Jop Ripoff Poll, a Facebook group with close to 2,000 members,...
View ArticleWhat They Said: 2023 Movie Survey w/Phil Dellio & Steven Rubio
For the past couple years, my friends Steven Rubio and Phil Dellio (along with yours truly, on occasion) have been engaging in conversations about movies on a YouTube series called What They Said (the...
View ArticleThe Oldest Guy at the Gig (Howard Druckman)
Cheers to aging ungracefully (by Howard Druckman) I became a senior citizen in 2023. I don’t look, feel, or act like it. The passage of time is undeniable, but at a point in life where I’m supposed to...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Jason Gross’s Best Music Journalism 2002 edition
From the let-me-take-you-way-wayback machine: Jason Gross’s “Best Music Journalism” summaries, which ran here every December from 2002-2006. (Jason’s survey eventually landed in other venues, which we...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Jason Gross’s Best Music Journalism 2003 edition
The 2003 edition of Jason Gross’s yearly music writing roundup, broken links intact. BY JASON GROSS, 2003 A common complaint about music today is that there aren’t a lot of good albums coming out...
View ArticleInterview with Don Armstrong, author of ‘The Life and Writings of Ralph J....
Don Armstrong’s The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason: Dispatches from the Front is long overdue. Unique among music writers, Gleason is the only critic from the pre-rock era (born in 1917, his...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Jason Gross’s Best Music Journalism 2004 edition
BY JASON GROSS In 2004, the only thing worse than being a Democrat was being a journalist. The battered profession had to contend with crises of confidence (not just Jayson Blair, but Dan Rather),...
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