Maxim magazine gives Black Crowes CD 2-1/2 star review without listening to it ("an educated guess")

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Maxim Screws the Black Crowes

Posted Feb 23rd 2008 11:45AM by TMZ Staff

http://www.tmz.com/2008/02/23/maxim-screws-the-black-crowes/



The Black Crowes are squawking mad at Maxim magazine! The publication gives the Crowes' new album "Warpaint" a scathing review in the March issue ... apparently without ever listening to it!

Although no advance CD's were made available, the mag lists the album as having two-and-a-half stars out of five and says, "it hasn't left Chris Robinson and the gang much room for growth."

According to the AP, the band's manager, Pete Angelus said Maxim explained the review as an "educated guess."

[Forkboy]

1. They're probably right.

:yoiks:

Just kidding. I have this thing about reviews anyways. I suspect many of them are written on the first listen, which is a horrible way to go. I always call it the "pesky first listen" because I spend that first listen trying to figure out where the band may be coming from and what they're trying to achieve artistically. It takes me at least three listens, at a minimum, to start to grapple with the stuff I listen to. And most things I like a lot on the first listen I'm sick of by the tenth listen. The more challenging it is the better chance there is I'll like it down the road.