Soundboard to fear for its life at 'The Death of the Critic' panel

Because we felt that this week of news was all sunshine and unicorns, Soundboard would like to cordially invite all of you chin-stroking music-thinker types to stare your own soul-sucking irrelevance right in the eye and weep at the altars of our job-killing Internet commentariat overlords. Kidding! But The Times' own Pop Czar Ann Powers will host a hopefully less-than-prophetic panel addressing "The Death of the Critic" in music and media on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at USC, discussing the role of professional music criticism in the age of Twitter, TorrentSpy and shrinking newspapers. Panelists include Soul-Sides.com editor Oliver Wang, LA Weekly's Randall Roberts and plenty of other pretty faces attached to regular bylines around town, but you've got to RSVP to go.

We'll be the ones outside holding the stick-and-satchel combo containing our meager possessions while huddling around a trash can fire of promotional kits.

-- August Brown 

Photo of some critics who slammed the latest Coldplay album by Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times

Comments

[elaine]

this would be a great panel to check out. However, that it's located
at USC and at 7:30 at nite..,it would take a lifetime to drive there....
additionally, USC campus at nite, not the safest place to be.

There are lots of ndustry folk who would have participated in this
were it not for its location.