OK, new issue has gone from "out REAL QUICK from the anniversary issue" to "Wait til May, kiddies" mainly because there wasn't anything in it that I thought was worth $500 to me to tell everybody about. Yup, honesty. But I've got 32 pages written and a lot more to write (some good releases have finally been trickling in) AND I have 4 interviews in the can (Swanö, Wuthering Heights, the girl from Asmegin and Ram-Zet, plus... uh... coulda sworn I had something... hmm.. maybe it's just 3 in the can) so it's going to the printer in May for sure so I can't get TOO backlogged with stuff.
But I want to just publicly announce that I've rolled my eyes once too often at bad music arriving in my mailbox by surprise, and I am honestly sick of being so cynical towards music I really do like, so this next issue will have the disclaimer prominently on the first page:
"LotFP would like to inform record labels that it would rather not receive random promos any longer, and will no longer so much as listen to any promo sent in a cardboard sleeve. LotFP would be happy to deal with record labels on a release-by-release basis, so that LotFP and the record label can reasonably expect (but not guarantee) that a particular release could be to its liking. LotFP would also like to inform record labels that anybody still sending email to the hotmail email address hasn't had a single message read since November."
So, yeah.
But I want to just publicly announce that I've rolled my eyes once too often at bad music arriving in my mailbox by surprise, and I am honestly sick of being so cynical towards music I really do like, so this next issue will have the disclaimer prominently on the first page:
"LotFP would like to inform record labels that it would rather not receive random promos any longer, and will no longer so much as listen to any promo sent in a cardboard sleeve. LotFP would be happy to deal with record labels on a release-by-release basis, so that LotFP and the record label can reasonably expect (but not guarantee) that a particular release could be to its liking. LotFP would also like to inform record labels that anybody still sending email to the hotmail email address hasn't had a single message read since November."
So, yeah.
