It appears New York Times writer and Time Out New York music editor Steve Smith is the latest victim of the Siren Twitter’s call.
But what is this? My heart be still: it looks like he’s going to Tweet about receiving CDs in the mail and getting off the phone with interviewees! Does it make me the Biggest Publicity Nerd in the Land if that’s the best news I’ve heard all week?
Showered
with beauty by today’s mail: new CDs from Christopher Tignor, Peter
Garland, John Luther Adams, Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola.Just off the phone with Asher Roth: as good an interviewee as I’d expected him to be, and confident in exactly the right way.3:07 PM Apr 7th from web
I was supposed to write “Just off the phone with @asherroth,” wasn’t I? NOOB.
Finally someone is going to put the day-to-day (and night-after-night) life and times of a music critic out in the open. If Steve live-Tweets a Times assignment meeting…well, I just don’t know what I would do.
Follow him here.
I’m not as cool as our pal Steve, but I’ve been twittering for a few weeks myself and I even live-twittered one of the MATA shows at Le Poisson Rouge (to all 15 or so of the followers I had then.) I’m @galenbrown
Greg Sandow has been twittering for a little while too. He’s @gsandow
To clarify, I wasn’t claiming Steve was the first music critic to use Twitter, just the first I’ve seen reporting on getting CD packages, conducting interviews, etc.. The behind-the-scenes stuff. But yes, everyone should follow Greg and Galen as well! -AA
I love this! If Steve Smith Tweets and you blog, we should all have a complete picture of what it’s like to “do press” in the big city. Many thanks to both of you for going above and beyond the call of duty.