Music reviewers for local scenes should have to support local scenes.

Or at least have a fucking clue about what's going on in the scene they write about, if they can't be bothered to get their asses out of their house once in a while. It's a crazy, wacky idea, I know.

I was going to bust out a hardcore rant but it's such a local issue that I don't want to waste your time with it. But, I do need to vent so instead, here's a mild one:

If you're going to be a music reviewer for "the hippest" local weekly, and if you're going to whine that there is no scene and/or your scene is not up to par, please, for the love of god:

A) Read the club listings in your own fucking paper for once--it just might help you
B) Read the articles about the local bands that have appeared in your own paper
C) Go to the shows in the clubs you claim have no attendees
D) Read articles about local bands from other papers so you will actually know what you're talking about before you start talking from that place where the sun don't shine
E) Actually contact local bands, DJ's and record label owners--oh wait, you claim nobody in town runs a label, even though you didn't think to ask anybody. It must be true!--before you write your stupid little rant so that (say it with me) you'll actually know what you're talking about.

Frickin' aging, out of touch, lazy, pompous reviewers who last had their pulse on the scene when the fucking Violent Femmes hit it "big" can cram it with walnuts. You're irrelevant. Go console yourselves with a case of Zima and your Bodeans cd's.


:rant: (Thanks for letting me vent, once again.)

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I love this town, but sometimes I really really hate it.

What's the story with Jim Walsh?

bitch about the local "scene", yet be utterly clueless about what's going on other than what his trendy friends with crappy taste tell him.

the same fungus infested petri dish.

We're going through this fight right now--club owner wants to improve club, neighbors won't let him because they don't like "that sort" around--LONG story full of bullshit claims from the neighbors.

Anyway, this guy writes this screed in our weekly about how no bands in Milwaukee or promoters contact the press--patently false, there are not enough all ages shows--again, untrue, that there are no local labels--there are, and they have local and non-local bands that have earned international acclaim, etc. etc. etc. I'm so sick of it. Promoters were begging for press when the White Stripes played the club in question (opening for a local band, by the way Mr. Reviewer) back in 1998 when they had one record out, and nobody paid it any mind. But yeah, this guy totally knows what he's talking about. Right. Cue puke fest.

And who was he reviewing? I assume it's some Journal-Sentinal idiot?

RL

show that night. Sharon Jones at Onopa. You know, because Milwaukee has no scene. :sarcasm:
I do have to check out the Dark Horse Project for real some time because it sounds cool and I like the Lovlies.

The article is actually in the Shepherd and it's all about the situation with the Cactus Club. I'll go get the link for you.

Oh, and speaking of our non-existent scene, you should go to Cactus tomorrow if you can. Miss Alex White is playing and she's frickin' amazing.

Try to get the CD if you can. It is pretty amazing.

RL

http://www.shepherd-express.com/10_6_05/noize_thinkspace.htm

Do you think it would be worth it to put up a thread about the Cactus situation in the Wisconsin forum? (Not a rant, just a "this is what's going on. call the alderman if you want" kind of thing.)