Idolator
We haven't run a new segment of our search for the worst in Village Voice Media music writing recently—not because there hasn't been material, but because forcing myself to read some of the same writers turning out the same crap got tiresome after awhile. However, that doesn't mean there isn't exciting VVM-related news going on.
An excellent example of this is the previously nominated Niki D'Andrea, whose reign as the music editor at the Phoenix New Times was marked by her angering most of the area's hip-hop scene while giving her friends and their nights out on the town the coverage they so richly deserve.
However, as far as this ad on the Village Voice Media clone of Craigslist shows, her job now appears to be open. Niki's apparently moving on to a different position at the paper, which means there's work for all you frustrated music writers out there! The New Times building is conveniently located near Phoenix's vibrant downtown, which will soon be serviced by the city's new light rail system. Plus, it's only ridiculously hot here a third of the year. What more could you want (sane employers not hacking jobs away left and right excluded)?
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Man, I'd love to see a compilation of all the Village Voice/New Times Media Music Editors who have been run out of town for drawing the ire of (fill in local scene). My personal favorite was the editor they brought in for the VV weekly here in Dallas who was obviously pretty upset to have landed in D-town. So all she did (she was an openly, out-of-the-closet lesbian) was write about cover bands and She Dick, the local electropop trio of drag queens. The funniest part was that the biggest critics of her at first were all the other electropop bands. There was like a mini-electropop war.
Then everyone realized weeklies were the Land of the Lost and she actually wasn't really that good of a writer and someone put her out of her misery and let her move on to another city and now there's some guy who writes about emo bands or something. And people still use the weekly primarily as a way to find out where to get cheap food on a weeknight. Thanks VV!
Say what you will about VV stuff, but I'm a fan of Tom Breihan and will miss Status Ain't Hood.
@amandacobra: There was like a mini-electropop war - wait, are you saying VV media inadvertently created something amazing?
@Nunya B: Seriously! I want URLs!
@Nunya B: @Maura Johnston:
Alright. This may take a little digging on my part but I promise I will not let you down. Again, I repeat: this was an electropop war between a drag act and college kids in Dallas, Texas and the outlying college areas. All with a lesbian VV edior at the center bearing the brunt of it.
Please stand by. We will be back with you momentarily.
I await more news of this with bated breath!
I have searched high and low and except for a few mentions here and there, everything but small traces have vanished. Like this whole electropop skirmish just disappeared into thin air, even in this inter-WEB age.
Either that or I had a very elaborate and drawn-out six month lucid dream in which a local weekly music editor touched off an electropop war between a drag act and some college kids.
I am sorry to have let you down. Please disable my commenter status until I am able to provide links or the name of what medication I was taking during the six month that this lucid electropop war dreaming occurred.
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