Is This The New Smash Hits?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

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Popworld Pulp, launching in a couple of weeks as a new music WEEKLY (v bold).

Looking at its MySpace it doesn't seem to be offering anything hugely compelling though.

Does anyone here still buy print music media, out of interest?

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[zenith.livejournal.com]

There's also this total inability to not be po-faced, even when supposedly there are pieces in which try to be funny. It's like Q with slightly less obviously conservative politics. It taints everything that's covered in an issue, and when that approach maps onto acts who lean that way anyway - HELLO THE ARCADE FIRE* - the result is just snooze to the power of zzzzzz.

*Piece written by Paul Morley, unquestioning of the band's typical blathering about making music that means something not like all that shitty pop music, much in the manner of his U2 hagiography... I hope the money's good, at least.