Music critic Kate Sullivan, a favorite of ours, has been canned by Village Voice Media's L.A. Weekly as part of an ongoing effort by the magazine's parent company to enforce a lifeless, stultifying conformity in the pages of its papers. [Tabloid Baby]

Music reporter Kate Sullivan on New York rock: "...right now rock culture and New York street fashion is about paying thousands of dollars to look like a Ramone. It's a careful simulation of the real thing. The Strokes are a careful and well-funded tribute to '70s New York rock culture, and that's about all I can say about them. Can't anyone else smell the money? Can't anyone else see what pale imitations they are, sitting at high fashion shows with their model girlfriends and their 500 dollar haircuts? Where's the danger? Where's the bravery and madness? Where's the erotic jesus?"
New York rock [Kate Sullivan via Amy Langfield]