Ep.50 - The Last Music Critic

Published: Sept. 28, 2014, 11:53 p.m.

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Carl Wilson changed the way music is discussed.\\xa0His\\xa0"poptimist" manifesto, Let\'s Talk About Love, made it okay to talk seriously about\\xa0bubbly\\xa0pop, and\\xa0went pop itself- that\\xa0rare work\\xa0of criticism that becomes\\xa0a bestseller. He rose to a top\\xa0job in his field, senior critic at SPIN.\\xa0But he almost instantly lost that job. He explains why, and talks about the rapid decline of music criticism itself.\\xa0

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