Pazz and Jop.

Thanks!

so, uh, is this still happening

it's a reasonable question. Glenn are you on it this goround?

wasn't last year's ballot mailing not done until December too?

Yes, it's still on. I don't have anything to do with it until after voting closes, but I know ballots haven't gone out yet, so nobody has missed anything.

cool, thanks!

http://www.villagevoice.com/authors/robert-christgau-6354191

CHristgau is writing for the Voice again. I wonder if he'll be involved

thanks! (for some reason I keep thinking the initial email comes out in november)

Whoa! The Voice hired Xgau back?! Why wasn't this bigger news?

Last year's ballot showed up Dec. 4, so they're not running late.

I swear, every other year when I try to vote I encounter some sort of technical crap that makes it impossible, then I wind up having to re-enter everything.

(Sorry, that sounded bratty, given everything happening right now)

Ballot arrived today. I'll probably submit the same top 10 I sent The Wire.

did not expect to get a ballot from someone I know from ifmud

"Welcome to the Village Voice's annual Music Critics Poll (formerly known as Pazz + Jop)"

RIP Pazz + Jop

Why would you fuck with the name? Especially for generic ass one?

"NFL Annual Championship Game Between the American and National Football Conferences"

Probably some unhip marketing person going "what's a Pazz"? What's a Jop?" No one knows what means.

what that means

Good for them. "Pazz and Jop" is a fucking terrible name.

Probably some unhip marketing person going "what's a Pazz"? What's a Jop?" No one knows what means.

― curmudgeon, Saturday, December 3, 2016 2:17 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whereas the hip marketing person is strutting around like 'Pazz! Jop! Zappatypow! Hoobalooba! Ramalama shakkow! Zump! Haha'

i agree that pazz & jop was always an awful name

it had a shred or two of character though

who gives a fuck about the annual Music Critics Poll

Yeah, if anything, now it sounds LESS interesting.

anyway i have no idea how i'm still getting invited to participate, i haven't done any music writing in years and i could've sworn there was a point where they were like "please resubmit your credentials" or w/e, maybe not

I voted for either 2 years or maybe 3 years in the mid-00s, and then one year nobody sent me a ballot and I never bothered to find out why because I'm lazy. And now it's been a really long time since I've written anything anywhere.

Is there a VV contact more responsive and/or less inundated than the generic address through which the ballots are sent? Trying to get a colleague added to the mix.

Neil deMause, the Special features editor is listed on the email that was sent out but not his email

His about page just gives a form link to send messages to a general box I think

http://www.villagevoice.com/about/contact?to=6731940

deadline in 4 hours

submitted an hour late because I suck, hope it's counted

I submitted late too. Nous verons.

perhaps it will be for the best if it isn't counted, I forgot to put swan song series on it

Heck, I forgot to *listen* to Swan Song Series. It's not every year Tanya Donelly and Kristin Hersh both release insanely long albums, and I barely got to either :(

Results tomorrow?

No, it'll be in the 1/25 issue this year.

Two more weeks, gotcha.

So we won't be able to put P+J placings in the tracks poll images? What a disaster for tradition :(

a liberation more like, let's excise p4k while we're at it

done.

RIP, ILM

Hallelujah!

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop

David Bowie- Blackstar tops the albums

and Beyoncé "Formation" tops the tracks

my comment about Tiwa Savage (featuring Dr. Sid) afropop/afrobeats track made it!

Maura, Greg Tate and SFJ have essays

Not Pazz & Jop 2016

So they didn't change the name.

I know this is even earlier, but there have been some... "developments" is exactly the opposite of the wrong word, at the Voice this year

so, uh, is this still happening

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, November 30, 2016 1:38 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pvmic

Last year's ballot showed up on Dec. 4.

i am also curious (p+j)

My sources say: Yes.

But voting may be a lot earlier than in past years, and for scheduling reasons I may not be involved...