DEPARTMENT OF RETRACTIONS Hi CREEM, I am glad you enjoyed the Billy Strings concert, but there’s a big error in your piece. Billy’s mother and step dad, Terry, are alive and well. Billy even made an album with his dad in 2022 (Me/And/Dad) that was nominated for a Grammy.
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Of all the comment sections in all the towns in all the world, you walk into ours. Yes, it's the “CREEM Goes to the Movies” issue, which means we’ve got Hollywood in our hearts and stars in our eyes. But leave it to you, dear readers, to bring us crashing right back down to earth faster than we can say, “I coulda had class! I coulda been a contender!” Your opinions: brutal. Your grievances: unfounded. But all press is good press. And we love it. Keep ’em coming. —Ed.
DEPARTMENT OF RETRACTIONS
Hi CREEM,
I am glad you enjoyed the Billy Strings concert, but there’s a big error in your piece. Billy’s mother and step dad, Terry, are alive and well. Billy even made an album with his dad in 2022 (Me/And/Dad) that was nominated for a Grammy. I am not sure where you’re finding your information, but it’s a bit of a bummer it got things so wrong. Let me know how you might be able to fix this.
Thanks,
Billy Strings PR Nashville, TN
We found the information on Wikipedia, gladly retract our reporting, and are happy to know that Billy’s parents are alive. CREEM sends our sincere apologies to the Strings family. Clearly, we are idiots. —Ed.
LOS ANGELES MAN LOVES LOS ANGELES
Greetings from the sunny shores of Los Angeles, the city you snubbed in your last issue. I get it. We’ve got everything. The music biz, the movie biz, and the only acceptable tacos outside of Mexico.
As much as I love hearing about what’s happening in Detroit or bum-fuck Nebraska, let’s not pretend that LA is anything other than the center of the proverbial music universe. Don’t believe me? I bet you could do a whole issue just on LA.
Rock on, CREEM. Don’t make me leave my 75 and sunny to kick down your door.
New York can fuck off, too.
Kevin B.
Los Angeles, CA
To quote the inimitable Ian Brown: “It’s not where you’re from, it’s where you’re at.” RS. It’s 2024. You can get good tacos in any Mexican neighborhood in the continental United States. Grow up. —Ed.
SAME INSULT, SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT SYNTAX
Terrance ^^^8 NOV8 5:SOPM
If it ain’t Detroit, it ain’t CREEM.
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Terrance ^^^8 Nov8 6:08 PM
Not Detroit? Not CREEM.
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Terrance ^^^8
Not Detroit? Not CREEM.
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Terrance ^^^8 Feb 3 5:35 PM
Not Detroit based ? Not CREEM. Sorry.
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SO CLOSE, ANDY
Andy Mar 15 11:08 AM
Wondering who you talk about in “New bands not to fly over.” I mean, there is so much great new music that people who are stuck in the past whine about there not being so I’m very curious who you included in this list. Sell me on your taste for current rock.
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Gilberto Mar1610:11AM
Andy if only they could compile
this information you want, periodically, in some sort of physical format... you know, to sell it to you
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Neil Young, the Allman Bros, Yes, REO Speedwagon, Metallica, and Slade. —Ed.
WRITER FOR HIRE
Robert Feb 3 5:35 PM
We need some advanced notice. I’d have been there. If you guys are in Texas lemme know if you hire for record reviews. I’m an ass who sucks at writing but love to rock.
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Thanks for your interest, but we already have people who fit that description. —Ed.
OHIO IS FOR HATERS
Really liked the last issue, but I would rather have a lobotomy than hear anything else about what’s going on in Ohio. And I live here.
Haley L.
Cincinnati, OH
Okay, but don’t act like having Jerry Springer for mayor wasn’t sick as fuck. —Ed.
THE SCOWL MYSTIQUE
Dear CREEM,
Why the fuck does Scowl get so much hate? They get called out for shit that bands of a more penial persuasion *cough cough* Militarie Gun and *cough cough* Turnstile are also doing. What’s the deal?
Sincerely yours, Candace M.
Austin, TX
We think you hit the nail on the (dick)head. And we swear it's not just because Scowl is funneling us free Taco Bell. —Ed.
RAVE REVIEW
Patrick^^M Feb 3 5:35 PM
I’ve received two so far. I’m not sure where to put them as they’re so large As for content, I haven’t read them yet. Hopefully I will on my vacation. They are very good quality. Value? I’m not sure yet.
For the record, we haven't read any of them either. —Ed.
YOU LIKE US! YOU REALLY LIKE US!
This is beautiful. You are beautiful.
Ryan Brown
We were about to end it all before this one came through. But please don't use this as an invitation to send us unsolicited feet pics. —Ed.
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