Comments on: “Alternative Press” Hands The Mic To Its Readers http://idolator.com/341565/alternative-press-hands-the-mic-to-its-readers Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 26 May 2012 12:03:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/341565/alternative-press-hands-the-mic-to-its-readers/comment-page-1#comment-411642 Anonymous Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:37:53 +0000 http://40cafd140b4d51c135c86359dbaf2d75#comment-411642 <p>All that whining about the nu-metal years seems rather disingenuous to me. AP were one of the first major publications to promote and publicize those bands.</p> All that whining about the nu-metal years seems rather disingenuous to me. AP were one of the first major publications to promote and publicize those bands.

]]> By: hndinglove http://idolator.com/341565/alternative-press-hands-the-mic-to-its-readers/comment-page-1#comment-411652 hndinglove Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:55:33 +0000 http://40cafd140b4d51c135c86359dbaf2d75#comment-411652 <P>i write for AP, and this post really nails what the magazine is about and why it's successful. thanks for giving it a non-dismissive, thorough analysis.</P> i write for AP, and this post really nails what the magazine is about and why it’s successful. thanks for giving it a non-dismissive, thorough analysis.

]]> By: tigerpop http://idolator.com/341565/alternative-press-hands-the-mic-to-its-readers/comment-page-1#comment-411662 tigerpop Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:11:00 +0000 http://40cafd140b4d51c135c86359dbaf2d75#comment-411662 <p>Clifton Park, represent!</p> Clifton Park, represent!

]]> By: unperson http://idolator.com/341565/alternative-press-hands-the-mic-to-its-readers/comment-page-1#comment-411672 unperson Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:12:12 +0000 http://40cafd140b4d51c135c86359dbaf2d75#comment-411672 <p>As someone who contributed heavily to AP during their years in the nu-metal wilderness (I wrote their Disturbed and Slipknot cover stories), I'm glad to see the mag continuing, and apparently succeeding - and even more glad that I don't write for them very much anymore. As pissed as Pettigrew sounds about what they were assigning me to cover five-six years ago, I'd be even more pissed if I had to pretend to give a fuck about Paramore.</p> As someone who contributed heavily to AP during their years in the nu-metal wilderness (I wrote their Disturbed and Slipknot cover stories), I’m glad to see the mag continuing, and apparently succeeding – and even more glad that I don’t write for them very much anymore. As pissed as Pettigrew sounds about what they were assigning me to cover five-six years ago, I’d be even more pissed if I had to pretend to give a fuck about Paramore.

]]> By: dana danger http://idolator.com/341565/alternative-press-hands-the-mic-to-its-readers/comment-page-1#comment-411682 dana danger Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:25:21 +0000 http://40cafd140b4d51c135c86359dbaf2d75#comment-411682 <p>@<a href="#c3581832">GovernmentNames</a>: Same here - I would eagerly get it every month in middle school and make a list of albums I wanted to hear. I honestly learned of so much music from them, obviously, not all great, but still.</p> @GovernmentNames: Same here – I would eagerly get it every month in middle school and make a list of albums I wanted to hear. I honestly learned of so much music from them, obviously, not all great, but still.

]]> By: Al Shipley http://idolator.com/341565/alternative-press-hands-the-mic-to-its-readers/comment-page-1#comment-411692 Al Shipley Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:17:22 +0000 http://40cafd140b4d51c135c86359dbaf2d75#comment-411692 <P>Good analysis of a mag not covered in this space before. I kind of have a soft spot for AP for back in the mid-90s, when they were one of the only mags with a really big reviews section covering dozens of dozens of albums, without the tiny postal stamp wordcounts that usually accompany that approach in the bigger mags these days.</P> Good analysis of a mag not covered in this space before. I kind of have a soft spot for AP for back in the mid-90s, when they were one of the only mags with a really big reviews section covering dozens of dozens of albums, without the tiny postal stamp wordcounts that usually accompany that approach in the bigger mags these days.

]]> By: KinetiQ http://idolator.com/341565/alternative-press-hands-the-mic-to-its-readers/comment-page-1#comment-411702 KinetiQ Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:45:04 +0000 http://40cafd140b4d51c135c86359dbaf2d75#comment-411702 <p>Wow, I was so worried that you actually linked to 2girls1cup and for a second thought maybe there was someone on the internet who hadn't been exposed to it yet.</p> <p>I wish I had something more substantial to contribute, but I don't, so I'll just say I greatly tenjoyed this. I've definitely been too hard on AP, but back when I was that age, grunge was pretty much anti-fashion. Or at least that's how I experienced it... so all these expensive clothes and excessive preening seem to be a huge difference from my experiences, but then if I were a kid growing up now.... well, I'm really glad I'm not 15 right now, I'll just leave it at that.</p> Wow, I was so worried that you actually linked to 2girls1cup and for a second thought maybe there was someone on the internet who hadn’t been exposed to it yet.

I wish I had something more substantial to contribute, but I don’t, so I’ll just say I greatly tenjoyed this. I’ve definitely been too hard on AP, but back when I was that age, grunge was pretty much anti-fashion. Or at least that’s how I experienced it… so all these expensive clothes and excessive preening seem to be a huge difference from my experiences, but then if I were a kid growing up now…. well, I’m really glad I’m not 15 right now, I’ll just leave it at that.

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