Collapse Board Whatever happened to the music press?

Added on October 3, 2011 Everett True Alan Lewis , Everett True , IPC Magazines , Melody Maker , Smash Hits , Vox

detail from the interview for the job of Assistant Editor, Melody Maker, 1992

How is that pretentious, Alan? I took it from that week’s Smash Hits

Added on January 31, 2011 Everett True Almost Famous , Brighton , California , Chuck Berry , Courtney Love , Emma Anderson , Facebook , Greil Marcus , Jonathan Franzen , knitting , Lesley Rankine , Lester Bangs , Lush , Meatmen , Miranda Sawyer , music press , Music Writing , Oprah Winfrey , Pauline Kael , Pitchfork , punk rock , sexism etc , Smash Hits , The Edge , The Stone Roses , The Wire

Sexism etc – female music critics wanted for Collapse Board

Imagine if the music critic in Almost Famous had been female. Any chance at all she wouldn’t have been portrayed as a groupie?