Happy 5th Anniversary rock nyc

the blog with perpetual nervousness

Congratulations to my many friends who have helped rock nyc remain, if nothing else, the most brutally honest music website out there over the past five years. We might have few readers and fewer friends, but what we do have is a reputation for honesty because, well, because we aren’t beholden to anybody.

I would like to thank my co-editor Helen Bach for all her years of hard work on the website and her complete, some might claim brutal, opinions about the state of her current pop music. To say I couldn’t do it without Helen is an understatement, the truth is I wouldn’t want to do it without her.

I would also like to thank my partners at ROCKNYCMUSIC LLC, the owners of rock nyc: John Pasquale, without whom we would have folded after the website crashed earlier this year and Joseph Mcelroy who has been a part of this for years and was responsible for the early redesign. And especially, Donna McElroy, who passed earlier this year, but whose spirit will always be a part of this website.

Mary Magpie interview The Rocket Summer for rock nyc when she was 12 years old and is off to college this year and Alyson Camus wroter a comment on a post I’d written about Elliott Smith and has been a valued family member ever since.

Currently, Margaret Mullen and Paula Iwamoto Schaap have given us the perspective from the family woman and Steve Crawford, a published author, and rock historian in the making, has given us a classic rock perspective and a deep knowledge of the history of popular music.

While Tomas Doncker only writes for us occasionally, his opinions and his friendship has been invaluable to me.

Finally, thank you reader. It never ceases to amaze me whenever somebody tells me they’ve read rock nyc for years. I could ask for nothing more.