Do we hate it when our friends become successful? No! We’re even happy when marginal acquaintances get a little love and affection.
Which brings me to the new Spin! Magazine, and their inclusion of not just one but two (count ’em!) Columbus bands in the latest issue, with nice reviews and snazzy photographs.
It’s not the first time that c-bus has made it’s mark on these fine brooklyneers ears, but we usually don’t get much ink — a reference to the Royal Crescent Mob or the Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments in an interview, a little blurb in the “other releases” section — that sort of thing. I was stoked (yeah, stoked!) a few years ago to find The Marbles before me as I enjoyed my morning throning. And then pissed (yeah, pissed!) when I read the too-short review that didn’t even give them a chance.
But back to the now, you’ll find the fearless folksters The Black Swans on page 96 (topless, no less.) And the avant-rock of Times New Viking on page 103. Be blessed, and may your rock-n-roll dreams come true.
