Dave Navarro Not-So-Subtly Auditioning For Pitchfork

Brian Raftery | June 8, 2007 4:36 am
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It’s been a while since we checked in with the former Jane’s Addiction guitarist, mostly because we need a break from watching our former heroes morph into preening half-man, half-unicorn wusses. It turns out that he’s been busy hanging with Perez Hilton and writing a very self-referential, heavy-on-the-ramble review of the new Marilyn Manson album. Why, might you ask?

Because information about music should come from musicians. The funny thing is, that I was inspired to do this review after talking to my long time friend and Rolling Stone contributor, Steve Baltin. We were discussing the whole critic/reviewer issue and it became clear to me through the conversation that the only way to change up the current dynamic is to go ahead and do something about it. Hopefully we can get more artists to get the information out there. Put it this way, if you don’t like where I come from as an artist, you can at least consider that before reading what my thoughts are on a particular artist or band.

You heard it, people: The only way music criticism will improve is if musicians review other musicians. Or maybe if just Dave reviews everything. Is that what he means? Either way, consider the current dynamic to be forever changed.

New Manson [6767.com]

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