Rock arbiter still believes in 'the wisdom of the pop audience'
Source: The Morning Call
You might think the man who has had a big say in the music coverage of Rolling Stone since 1997 must be a rock snob by definition. Not so, says Joe Levy, executive editor of the magazine since February 2006.''
I still believe in the pop audience, and in the wisdom of the pop audience, that the pop audience validates interesting music by buying, listening and responding to it,'' says Levy, whose publication has a circulation of 1.3 million and a readership of 13 million.
While there are fewer central figures and the scene is more diffuse, Levy maintains, ''There is still good music near the top of the charts. Young, challenging, inventive rock bands such as such as The Arcade Fire and Spoon put out records that can be in the Billboard Top 20.....
... In the long term I may have be proven correct, but that year I wasn't exactly right.'' Levy, who was born in Port Chester, N.Y., in 1964, remembers the first single he bought was 10cc's ''The Things We Do for Love.'' His first albums were ...
Source: The Morning Call
You might think the man who has had a big say in the music coverage of Rolling Stone since 1997 must be a rock snob by definition. Not so, says Joe Levy, executive editor of the magazine since February 2006.''
I still believe in the pop audience, and in the wisdom of the pop audience, that the pop audience validates interesting music by buying, listening and responding to it,'' says Levy, whose publication has a circulation of 1.3 million and a readership of 13 million.
While there are fewer central figures and the scene is more diffuse, Levy maintains, ''There is still good music near the top of the charts. Young, challenging, inventive rock bands such as such as The Arcade Fire and Spoon put out records that can be in the Billboard Top 20.....
... In the long term I may have be proven correct, but that year I wasn't exactly right.'' Levy, who was born in Port Chester, N.Y., in 1964, remembers the first single he bought was 10cc's ''The Things We Do for Love.'' His first albums were ...
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