EXCLUSIVE: OLIVIA FLORES ALVAREZ’S REIGN OF DUMB OVER PRESS’ MUSIC SECTION TO END
WELL LA DE DA. Olivia Flores Alvarez, Assistant Music Editor for the Houston Press and the mind behind some of the most asinine, insulting, poorly researched and just plain shitty pieces ever penned about music in Houston is leaving the post on June 15th according to sources close to the paper. Though her campaign to keep readers uninformed and un-entertained will continue in her new role as the publication’s Night and Day editor, the respite from her baffling attempts at column space humor or insight (reprinting the lyrics to an Arctic Monkeys song with the bad words redacted, for example) is welcome.
Generally, we work pretty hard to keep The Skyline on the posi-tip. We have tossed out draft after draft after draft of analysis of the Press and Alvarez in particular’s disregard/disdain for local music because, frankly, it was hard not to get mean. Her tenure has done almost nothing to pull the lid from the face meltingly deep cauldron of great music in this town (including acts we would never cover) and expose it to a wider audience. We’re gonna just leave it at that and say that we look forward to a fresh start with the new editor, who we are informed will be announced soon.
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You know, for a moment I felt sorry for her then I clicked on your linked articles and I snapped out of it.
And by "a source close to the paper" we mean "someone who wrote a 150 blurb for them once."
We had multiple sources for this story, just like the multiple arms we hope to hug you with this Thursday.
-THE EDITORS
And by "multiple sources" we mean...ah, nevermind. See you Thursday. Hugs for everyone!!!
That headline is so harsh and accurate.
"1. How many times will you find a musical genre named after your hometown?
2. The fact that it's called "noise" means that even the musicians have no illusions about its musicality -- this is noise, just played with guitars and amplifiers.
3. Houston Noise is an equal opportunity genre. Men, women, men who want to be women, women who love men who want to be women -- everybody has a shot at being a noiser.
4. The term Houston Noise gives KTRU-FM something to write down instead of "My roommate's lame-ass band" under "genre" on their FDC forms.
5. Houston Noise success looks an awful lot like regular old "starving musician" failure. That means mothers across the city can say, "My son's into Houston Noise," instead of "My son's a no-talent bum." It makes for much happier small talk with strangers."
WHAT AN IDIOT.
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