Arts Subtract the Difference
The great rock music critic Chuck Eddy—I mostly know him thanks to his book of poetry Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums In the Universe, which I believe included Michael Jackson’s Thriller at #13—is the latest New Times casualty at the Village Voice. Eddy has been music editor at the Voice (or the Vwatch-Ay, as me and my friend David Shhhmaa-day like to call it) for 7 years.
Eddy’s farwell, posted on Gawker, includes this fuckyou equation to the New Times Order:
To make it brief, I have been “terminated for reasons of tasteā€¯; if you’re wondering what that cryptic phrase means, my advice would be to look at just about any random music section in one of the many other New Times alternative weekly papers around the country, compare it to any random music section I’ve put together here at the Voice, subtract the difference, and draw your own conclusions.
The Voice went from being interesting to being comfortably predictable to now nothing. Is the track of the Voice the track of the left? We were once interesting then we were comfortably predictable will we soon be nothing? Or maybe we allready are nothing. Owned by red-faced clowns from Arizona. Motherfucking street teams and email blasts.