The AP Year-End List is worse than Rolling Stone’s
You know, I don't even think they're joking.
Let me begin by answering a question you might have. I care about these lists because it reveals so much. Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle’s movie critic, once said that critics only give their own opinion. You simply have to find a critic with the same tastes as you. People largely forget that with music magazines. Instead, they take what is in here as gospel truth. The year end list exposes the true taste of a critic or group of critics. These are the people who entrust the rest of your year to
Alternative Press, if you don’t know it, covers “the scene.” I think that’s a term they made up. It involves alternative bands aimed at teenagers. It’s a serious rock magazine with a section on how to get the hairstyles of your favorite musicians. (They always use more product than I do, and I am a black lady.) I like it because it covers bands that don’t get covered anywhere else, but it also covers bands that probably shouldn’t be covered anywhere. Continue reading
