A note to Phoenix New Times Music Editor Martin Cizmar and Clubs Editor Benjamin Leatherman: if you’re going to cover a show with comped tickets, it’s generally considered poor form to show up late and miss the opener. Even if traffic is terrible and somehow you end up getting to your seat late (despite the fact that your paper’s offices are a mile or so from the venue), mentioning your shared tardiness in your clever point/counterpoint review is less a comment on the relative value of MGMT as show opener than it is on your ability to do your job. [Phoenix New Times]
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I cover an exhausting number of shows, and have a tendency to arrive late for openers I don’t care about, or even leave during the headliners’ set if I was there for one of the openers. But then, I rarely get my tickets comped, does that somehow make me less rude than these guys?
@Al Shipley: I think the problem is when someone comments on whether the opening act is any good live without bothering to show up for more than the last song (or in Leatherman’s case, not at all). Then again, I might be the only person who feels that way.
@Dan Gibson: Yeah, I agree it’s a little unfair. But in a way I think it’s better that they note that as a caveat than to simply pretend they have an informed opinion of the band’s whole set, although they could’ve offered that info up in a less snarky way.
The point-counterpoint format is lame. The Beck-is-showed-up-by-his smokin-hot-girl-bassist crap is ultra lame. This is why people hate douchebags, er, critics.
I can dismiss them based on the fact that they like Freezepop. Ever heard them live? Yeesh! That girl canNOT sing.
Also, please stop using “fellate” as a substitute for “lavishly praised”. Thanks guys.
@Dorgon: PLUS THEY SOUND NOTHING LIKE MGMT.
I’m not a big MGMT apologist, but being completely ignorant really isn’t a good way to make your point.
I would also like to point out that “dubbed them as” is a really terrible construction; the “as” is superfluous and awkward.
Commenting on MGMT other than to say “I missed the set by opener MGMT” is dishonest and frankly a violation of any sort of journalistic ethics. Oh wait, this is one of those crap free weeklies, there are no quality standards, let alone ethics.
I totally should’ve forwarded Dan DeLuca’s Radiohead concert review. He missed Grizzly Bear because of traffic, but then tried to weave it into the review by way of Radiohead greening their tour. Priceless.
“I feel rather underwhelmed when it comes to the duo of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden.”
There’s a wordcount-booster.
@revmatty: Yes, the lack the moral clarity of mainstream music journalism.
And not just any crap free weekly, but the crap free weekly that began the empire of crap free weeklies that bought and gutted the Village Voice.