This week's NME bumps Jarvis Cocker from the front cover in favour of The Strokes. I know this because the Pulp info mailing list said "look out for Jarvis on the cover of NME this week." <a href="http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/talkread.bml?journal=dickon_edwards&itemid=17220&thread=84804#t84804">[Since writing this entry, it transpires the mailing list made a mistake, and Pulp were never planned for the cover. See these comments.]<\/a><\/p>\n
As Pulp are releasing their Hits album and calling it a day (for now), you'd have thought that would warrant some attention. But instead the Cocker interview is tucked away inside, at a page and a half, most of which is taken up by a photo. The piece isn't even referred to on the cover at ALL.<\/p>\n
The Strokes cover story, meanwhile, is a three page "news" article by Steve Sutherland. The news? The Strokes play a gig in LA and go down quite well. They haven't even got a new record out. <\/p>\n
Sample text: "[A bunch of Strokes fans]… look so like a band, if you were in A&R you'd sign them on the spot and worry about songs and record sales and shit like that later."<\/p>\n
And:
\n" 'Dr Julian says get fucked up!' Sounds cool. Let's get to it!"<\/p>\n
And:
\n"Join us at the Whiskey later, and provided you're down with a chick on the guestlist…"<\/p>\n
Without a hint of irony anywhere. The piece is deeply embarrassing to read. <\/p>\n
Just how old is Steve Sutherland? <\/p>\n
I recall he was once a champion of Orange Juice in the 80s, that famously anti-rockist band. A band who, like Jarvis Cocker, had a little bit more to say than how great it is to get fucked up and rilly rilly out of it, maaaan. <\/p>\n
NME is now officially Darwin's Waiting Room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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