Looking for another summer festival to hit, but not wanting to go much farther than say...Jackson Hole, Wyoming? Well get psyched for the weekend of August 16th, when the Black Crowes, Medeski Martin and Wood, Kaki King, Wilco AND Son Volt entertain folks at the inaugural two-day Jackson Hole Music Festival. Wilco and Son Volt, people. Wilco and Son Volt. I smell the unthinkable. [Jackson Hole Music Festival]
As week one of Crowesgate draws to a close, we've heard from a lot of people regarding Maxim's decision to run "previews" of upcoming Black Crowes and Nas albums as actual reviews despite those albums being unavailable to critics and just plain unfinished, respectively. We've read the Crowes' initial irate reaction to Maxim's journalistic gaffe and Maxim's lame mea culpa. Nas weighed in, wondering who gives credence to a review in Maxim in the first place, and even the neologism-challenged CNN newsroom added their own half-cocked commentary. But one party we've yet to hear from until now is David Peisner, who wrote the previews/reviews/who-the-hell-even-knows-anymore in question. Going on record with the LA Times, Peisner claims his Maxim higher-ups did assign him to write previews, and he only found out they had been bumped to the reviews section when the issue hit the stands.
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Maxim has extended a virtual olive branch in the direction of the Black Crowes, after the magazine copped to running a middling review of the band's new album Warpaint before its reviewer even had a chance to listen to more than one song off it. "It is Maxim's editorial policy to assign star ratings only to those albums that have been heard in their entirety," editorial director James Kaminsky said in a statement on Tuesday. "Unfortunately, that policy was not followed in the March 2008 issue of our magazine and we apologize to our readers." Apparently the writer of the review isn't going to face any disciplinary action, but the "educated guess" policy outlined by a still-unnamed Maxim staffer in an e-mail to the Crowes' label last week is probably being erased from the magazine's stylebook right now. [AP / Photo: AP]
Like a Harry Smith who caught the Unabomber, Janet Reno has put together a three-disc box set that features "50 songs, reinterpreted by artists including John Mellencamp, the Black Crowes, Martha Wainwright and Devendra Banhart, the story of America and the different challenges it has faced, from war to racism to the Depression, is retold for today's audiences." Our former Attorney General is a freak-folkie. Also she is confident the Black Crowes can teach you stuff about America that you never knew before.
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