Tuesday, March 4, 2003

CMJ was never worthy of tying the laces of the least zine' writers chucks This is an Metafilter Item from last week. I had about 20 open windows in my browser - I've gotten into the habit of continually opening links into background windows - I just got down to this window now. CMJ it seems has been falysifing playlists. Well surprise surprise surprise [add your own Gomer Pyle accent to the catch phrase]. CMJ to those of you not familiar with it, is the college media journal. I spent some time in the college radio dj ranks. I remember CMJ right from the start trying to insert themselves as a middle man to a process that didn't need one. Nothing would seem less in touch with our ten watt punker ethos than seeing my music directors and assistant music directors reading CMJ before they even sat down and opened the records and listened to things. Those micro playlists for stations they would print in the back were nothing more than ego excersises for lazy music directors. Beyond lip service and a passing nod to independents CMJ was nothing more that a shill sheet for the major labels. It cost a small fortune too - nothing like paying for damage. The future Infinity One employees we had runing about the place bought the subscription - they didn't know to program as much as a half hour set without something like that. I put Rockpool in the same catagory as well, if any one remembers them, they never struck me as being as snake like though. 10:49:10 AM    comment [];trackback [];

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