Paste Magazine, RIP: This week, Paste Magazine, the music magazine which reviewed a pretty broad spectrum of music, which included the music followed by Now I’ve Heard Everything, stopped publishing its printed edition. According to a post on pastemagazine.com, Paste, “is focusing on its digital assets, including PasteMagazine.com.” Unfortunately, this is not really a surprise. It was just a year ago when Paste requested contributions from its readers so that it could continue publishing, which it did. However, what will remain of Paste in the future remains to be seen.
Brooklyn Book Festival: Coming up on Sunday, September 12 is the annual Brooklyn Book Festival. This year the BBF includes five panels about music, including an interview with Rosanne Cash about her recently published memoir, Composed, at 1pm. All events are free, but some require tickets which are distributed an hour prior to the event. Tickets are not required for Rosanne’s interview.
Rosanne on Twitter: Speaking of Rosanne Cash, she is well worth following on Twitter. Rosanne’s tweets about what she is doing, her husband, John Leventhal (“Mr.L”) and her 11 year-old son, Jakob, (“The Little Mobster”). She is always interesting, usually very funny and occasionally even poetic (she recently had a run of haikus). Her most recent tweet:
Nice day in Switzerland. Lot of vintage rockers in hotel: Canned Heat, Steppenwolf, Joan Jett. I play tonight. Want to do ‘Born to Be Wild’.
Mark Your Calendar: Even though it’s only early September, two shows coming later this fall have already caught my eye: Steve Wynn and The Miracle 3 will be playing The Living Room on October 8, and Chuck Prophet and The Mission Express will be playing The Bowery Electric on November 11. Each of these shows has the potential of being the highlight of the fall season.
