After being caught reviewing the new Black Crowes album without
reviewer David Peisner actually possessing a copy of said album and claiming the bogus critique as an "educated-guess preview,"
Maxim has gone one better and awarded another mediocre review to an album that doesn't actually
exist yet. Last
we heard, Nas'
Title That Certain Bloggers Take Great Delight In Printing Whenever Possible had been
delayed until late spring. Turns out the rapper has possibly yet to even deliver the tapes to Def Jam; Nas tells the
New York Post that he's
"finishing the album now" and talking up a new April 22 release date. Perhaps in deference to those long magazine lead times, the educated guessers at
Maxim went ahead and gave Nas' unfinished album 2 1/2 circles (out of a perfect five). That's the same score that so incensed the Crowes, but Nas is much more sanguine about the whole affair.
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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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