Remembering The Village Voice, Music Criticism's Crucible: Part 2

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Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Forty years of writers and editors share memories about helping invent a language to talk about music, and the artists they critiqued — some grateful, some not. Guests: Ann Powers, Evelyn McDonnell, Chuck Eddy, Rob Harvilla and Tom Breihan.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:14.8	podcast, you're riffing lick and lick and riff of music news and criticism.
0:19.6	I'm your host John Caramonica. You give more than me.
0:31.0	And you live like pen and women.
0:35.0	And the shame, more than the shame,
0:40.0	more than me.
0:50.0	Yes, you hide like men and women. We are back for part two of the Village Voice Memory Lane Walk. We are back now with a whole new set of folks bringing us up out of the 80s, into the 90s,
1:07.0	and into the 2000s. So this week we're going to talk to Evelyn McDonald, we're
1:10.9	to talk to Chuck Eddie, Rob Harvilla, and Tom Bryan.
1:14.0	But let's start with a call with Ann Powers.
1:17.0	Many, many luminaries who have passed through the pages in the New York Times also passed
1:24.4	through pages of the village voice. One of those people is Anne Powers and is currently a
1:29.2	critic and correspondent for NPR Music. Wrote quite a bit for the Times back in the day and was it the voice from 93 to 96, initially as feminist editor, which she will explain a little bit what that was, and then subsequently as music editor and
1:43.8	Anne is in Nashville pondering Americana and calling in right now. Anne what's up?
1:49.3	Hey just waiting for the dayluge of twang next week.
1:53.1	I sort of assume it's just a constant deluge of trying.
1:56.0	How can you distinguish?
1:58.3	All my friends in Nashville.
1:59.6	We're just waiting off my shoes here.
2:01.1	Nashville is now a no-fly zone for me.
2:03.0	I'm not allowed.
2:04.0	I'm not allowed in town anymore.
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