Just a guess, but in order to review something, doesn’t one have to have sampled it first? Like, restaurant reviewers go to the restaurant they are assigned to review, eat the food, and then comment on it. Movie critics watch films and then give their opinion. And so on …

Not so the music reviewers at Maxim magazine. Apparently, Maxim magazine employs music critics with special powers, such as the one who gives the Black Crowes’ “Warpaint” a rating of two-and-a-half stars out of five in the March issue. The writer’s special power? He was able to review the CD without hearing it!

Incredulously, neither the writer nor the editor could have heard more than one song (the single “Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution”) because advance CDs were not made available.

According to the Black Crowes official website, when approached for an explanation, the magazine described the review as “an educated guess preview.”

Now, I haven’t read Maxim magazine, but, my “educated guess preview” is that it’s written, edited and published by a bunch of douchebags. I think Chris Robinson would agree.

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