Wednesday, March 26, 2008

SD Citybeat's Music Issue Out Now!

Get to the nearest red box and pick it up!

Or, check it out online here.

On a side note, despite my brief stint as the sole writer of Local's Only, I did not contribute to this issue at all. While I admire writers and journalists who can act as critics, when it comes down to it, I support local music, as a whole, or dare I say it, a scene. If I don't like a band or a recording, I simply choose not to write about it or post about it here. There are enough haters around, and honestly, who am I to judge? I'm certainly no expert and I certainly have my share of embarassing CDs in my collection, so it's not my style to pitchfork anything. Still, I love reading what everyone else came up with. I'll be there celebrating the issue release tonight at Anthology, so drop by and let's talk smack about who the meanest writers are...

5 comments:

Natalie said...

So "pitchfork" is a verb now? Hehe. I can't hate on them, they've done right by me so far...

Michael said...

Having just read the reviews, I'm pretty sure most of the shit will be talked on me. But really, you should've heard some of that stuff. Geesh.

Unknown said...

Why does "hater" have such a negative connotation but "effusive praiser" doesn't? No one ever says someone is being critical when they heap mounds of praise on a band. The only time people say you were "critical" of a band is when you don't have good things to say about them. In either instance, you are a critic: you're offering an evaluation of the artistic or entertainment merits of a piece of music or a performance.

It's amazing: bands ask you to pay money to see them play, and most of the time implicitly ask you to pay for alcohol while doing it. If you don't like it, you're a hater. Can you think of any other enterprise that works this way?

Rosemary Bystrak said...

I think effusive praiser is negative as well, as I'm constantly reminding people I suck because the depth of my music analysis is "i like it." Still, there's a distinction for haters, I think. One can say "I don't like xx band" or "it's not my style" or even criticize a bands musical skills without being a "hater". It's the "this band should suck a dick and die because they're the worst band on the planet ever" stuff that bothers me, and you know as well as I do that there are plenty of people who think there's like 2 good bands on the planet and everyone else sucks, in which case I wonder why they even bother going to shows.

Anonymous said...

I like very little, so I'd only write interviews on bands or types of music I profess to like because I believe myself to be qualified to comment only when I'm writing on such bands. I don't care for most hipster rock, so I don't blog about it. Give me old country or rockabilly, and I'm a loudmouth.