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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Chuck Eddy fired from Village Voice music section.

No Eddy, no NYLPM. (about half our links used to be to Voice features. The other half were slagging off the Guardian)
No Eddy on the Voice, no ILXers in the Voice (and fewer Voicers in ILX)
No Eddy, no ILX come to think of it. (thf. no Poptimists)
ect ect

Best of luck Chuck in whatever you do next.

The future of print music writing has looked murky for a long time: I worry somewhat for the good writers and people I know who are involved in it.

(time for DJ Martian's new darkwave zine then!)

Comments

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Hi Frank-

most of the section will be one-source artist profiles of bands performing in the upcoming week

I have written one of these for the Voice, at Chuck's urging, and indeed a few profiles not written by me have already run if anyone wants to check 'em and out and see the brave new world to come. I felt uncomfortable posting this in the ILX thread for some reason (I="Eppy"="Mike Barthel"), but everyone I've told that the Voice is looking to do more local band profiles has thought it was a really good thing, although admittedly I guess most of those people are in local bands. And I think if they're "puff pieces" that has more to do with local writers writing about local bands than any institutional bias. I'd probably prefer not to write profiles of bands I loathed if for no other reason than I might end up on the same bill as them at some point (and indeed this has already happened a few times!), but I also wouldn't necessarily shy away from it, and given the Voice's rep, I'm sure they could get lots of fearless, critically astute writers to write interesting profiles. Whether they will or not is another matter, of course, as is whether or not Harvilla will kill my piece, too!

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

That said, I obviously think it's a horrendous thing that they fired chuck, since as so many people have said, he was an amazing editor and always willing to give snot-nosed brats such as myself a chance.