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Toodle-oo, Tim!
Strangely, Perlich’s Picks still appears on the music sidebar of NOW‘s website.
Here’s a short-term memory game for you. Gloss over the music section in last week’s issue of NOW. Ok, now take a look at this week’s issue. What’s missing? That’s right! Perlich’s Picks! It seems like Tim Perlich’s legion of anonymous flamers have been granted their wish. The veteran music critic (or “arrogant gasbag,” as his naysayers call him) appears to have been 86’ed from NOW’s offices. There’s been no official statement made on this yet, but shooting an email over to his NOW address prompts this telling bounce back message:
Tim Perlich is no longer with NOW Magazine.
Please send music inquiries to NOW‘s music coordinator Benjamin Boles at [email protected] and to [email protected]
Toronto’s indie booker extraordinaire Dan Burke claims to have heard firsthand from Perlich that he’s been “canned.”
“Tim has been a vital thread in the fabric of popular music culture in Toronto for over a decade,” Burke sadly reminisces. “As a writer, he knows the past, present, and future of his field better than just about anyone. You wanna know who’s fallen or who’s rising internationally, ask Tim. Pop, roots, punk, jazz: you name it, Tim is tapped into it. What a weave of music knowledge! He knit Toronto into the world and the world into Toronto.”
For Toronto’s music scene, today marks a tragic loss (or glorious victory, depending on who you ask).