The Black Crowes have lashed out at Maxim magazine for reviewing their upcoming CD -- without actually hearing it first.The review, which was published in Maxim's March issue, gave the album 2 and a 1/2 out of 5 stars, and claimed that the blues-rock group needed "room to grow."
Both The Black Crowes (via an official statement on their website) and the overall music community have directed heavy criticism towards the magazine this week, prompting Maxim editorial director James Kaminsky to attempt to clarify things in an interview with the Associated Press:
"This is a mistake. We have often run previews, which are based on the fact that an album is coming out ... but (those in the March issue) should not have had star ratings attached to (them)," said Kaminsky. "There was a bit of a breakdown that led to that happening and I'm looking into it and, as I've said, we've already put measures in place to ensure that this will not happen again."
Black Crowes manager Pete Angelus dismissed Kaminsky's statements as nothing more than "self-serving damage control."
"It comes as no surprise that Maxim has elected to apologize to their readers now that the world has been informed of their deception. However," said Angelus, "That is not full accountability."
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