Fine On 'Editor-Rock'

BusinessWeek‘s Jon Fine [left] has a little fun with this month’s GQ and what he calls the “editor-rock” genre:

White, intellectual (or at least semi-intellectual), ineffectual, and generally namby-pamby, albeit with occasional forays into, you know, distorted guitars. No aggression. It’s very polite and well-mannered—way too much so, in fact—for rock music. It’s music for the head, and not the hips and gut. Judging from most ratios of sales-to-coverage-in-glossy-magazines, it’s beloved primarily by magazine editors in major cities.

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