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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

In Other Music Section News

posted by on January 17 at 18:03 PM

We have a new music editor!

His name is Jonathan Zwickel, and his job history includes having driven a semi in Sacramento, picked apples in New Zealand, ski bummed in Lake Tahoe, and sold Christmas trees in New York. He also has experience, you know, writing about music. He’s coming to The Stranger from San Francisco, where he’s currently Pop and Rock Editor at Rhapsody.com. Before that, he was Music Editor at New Times Broward-Palm Beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He’s written about music for Pitchfork, XLR8R, Harp, Urb, Village Voice, and a lot of other places.

Here are the 25 best songs from 2006, according to him. Let the fighting begin.

He starts in February. We can’t wait.

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1

Paris Hilton? Are you fucking kidding me?

Posted by welcome | January 17, 2007 6:23 PM
2

shoulda given me the job

Posted by Jeff | January 17, 2007 6:50 PM
3

in other music news, what happened to hannah levin? i saw an ad in the weekly announcing her new column.

Posted by benny | January 17, 2007 8:12 PM
4

well he likes a really good Lupe Fiasco song.
welcome.

Posted by lar | January 17, 2007 10:42 PM
5

wow. is that his picture there? Frizzelle...he looks JUST LIKE YOU, nice going, and ah...don't forget to bring THAT up to your therapist next session (ahem)...well, we'll really see when he gets here. and ANY "top" list of any year that contains at LEAST on weird al song is all right by me. fuck the rest of that shit.

Posted by nipper | January 18, 2007 9:30 AM
6

Yay! The Stranger totally needs another music writer with an ironic sense of taste for kitschy music. Way to go, local free paper. You keep on picking the winners and I'll keep on using your paper to line the bottom of my bird cage. Deal?

Posted by Calling You Out | January 18, 2007 9:56 AM
7

#2, That was not me. I was hoping they'd give it to Trent.

Posted by Jeff | January 18, 2007 10:00 AM
8

Let his first task be getting rid of Segal. His return should have never happened. Journalist-my ASS! Oh, and after that, he can just leave. His tops of 2006 read like my 12 year old niece. Come on.

Posted by AnotherLoser | January 18, 2007 11:20 AM
9

i noticed hannah's advertisement in the seattle weekly too. i think she wrote a cd review this week as well. what happened? if i was her, i would have been fed up with you fucksticks long ago.

Posted by ca. | January 18, 2007 12:04 PM
10

Zwickel looks solid. I say welcome! His first task will be to get Paris Hilton to perform at the Cap Hill Block Party. We can stick fire crackers up her dog's ass and blow it up. We can explode the animal, live on stage. In good fun.

"Jeff," now I get love from you? I thought I was bowing down and sucking up to Savage? Well, I wasn't in the running. No way I could have followed Segal's Segalness. His expansive knowledgeable concisness.

But now we have Segalness back, and Grandyness, and Selingness, and Spoolness, and Schmaderness, and Mizellness, and Reighleyness, and Mudedeness, and Frizzelleness, and McCanness, and Sawadaness, and Kelly O'ness, and all the other music writernesses that I'm not thinking of.

And if you disagree, "Calling You Out", lets just remember that Zwickelness is handy with the firecrackers. After you play with your birds, he'll stick a bottle rocket in your nostril, then you can read the Weekly. All in good fun.

Posted by trent moorman | January 18, 2007 1:21 PM
11

Wow, Trent, you totally mentioned my name. That makes me feel kinda nice [no sarcasm]. Thank you.

Posted by Steve | January 18, 2007 2:07 PM
12

Trent, you have a persecution complex.

I commended you and yours for bringing Segal back and giving Eric a column.

Let it go. After reading the MMJ article I'd be more worried about my freelance opportunities than some 2-bit comment on this slog.

Posted by Jeff | January 18, 2007 2:17 PM
13

there are two jeffs here and it is confusing me. for purposes of identification, i am comment #2 and no others. plus i don't work for you guys.

Posted by Jeff | January 18, 2007 2:19 PM
14

Jonathan Zwickel has crap taste in music. I agree with the person who made comment #6.

Posted by Erik R | January 18, 2007 8:43 PM
15

Jeff = Hannah. Or somenoe thats pissed she is gone. How'bout YOU let it go.

And J.ust E.xited F.or F.orever-sucking, I thought the MMJ article was entertaining, ballsy, and funny. Unlike you. I read the thing twice. Segal is the only other music writer that makes me read stuff twice.

Posted by Reggie | January 18, 2007 10:35 PM
16

For the record, "Jeff" does not equal Hannah. I have no reason to post under a false name.

Posted by Hannah Levin | January 19, 2007 2:30 PM
17

Hannah, say it ain't so... Is the Stranger really Levinless now??

Posted by bummed | January 19, 2007 2:54 PM
18

uh. i'm not a false name. i've never worked for the stranger. i was making a goddamn joke (which is less of a joke when you consider that being the music editor of the stranger would be a dream job for me a few years down the road, but still, while i'm still in college, probably not going to happen). way to spread undue paranoia and accusations. and the other jeff certainly doesn't seem to be pissed or anything. jes' chill.

- Jeff #2 and #13

Posted by Jeff | January 19, 2007 2:55 PM
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jesus h christ, The Stranger: your new music editor picked a song by Three Days Grace as the #1 rock tune of 2006. congrats on hiring a full-fledged MORON. seriously now, what the *F* is goin' on? is this a goddamn joke?

http://www.rhapsody.com/playlistcentral/playlistdetail?playlistId=13117318

Posted by jesus h christ | January 31, 2007 9:33 AM

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