Point of fact... Matthew's album was worked by Backspin Media. The same folks who do all of the Compost stuff, as well as Vikter Duplaix, Louie Vega and folks like that.
I'll be honest, I'm not sure why the Matt Dear album has gotten picked-up with such a fury. Except maybe to prepose that he is actually a new young artists and its just that time. On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Kent williams wrote: > Jeez. > > 1. If Rolling Stone gives you 4 stars, you put it on the sticker. It > may well be that it only got reviewed in the first place because Ghostly > can afford a super-kick-ass publicist, it may well be that the reviewer > didn't have any context to judge, but if you get 4 stars it goes on > the CD. If for NO OTHER REASON THAT IT MAKES THE BIG TIME RACK JOBBERS > THINK THEY GOT SOMETHING THAT WILL SHIFT UNITS. > > Ghostly is run as a business. You can't fault them for doing what any > well-run record label would do. > > 2. Rolling Stone may be a lot of things -- chief among them, mostly > irrelevant -- but I think it's dumb to call the magazine racist. > > 3. Hostility on a mailing list is bullshit. > >
