Ellen Willis
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Oct 2, 2026
Bill WymanGUEST
But then you turn the page and they had 12 more reviews like capsule reviews.
Bill WymanGUEST
You know, Dave Marsh, Ellen Willis, whoever, all the critics of the time, which was just when I was a kid, I was like, what is going on? So that's another thing I remember, that there was an import given to the album at the time by Rolling Stone that was unprecedented.
Greg KotHOST
Yeah, the idea of being able to review an album with some level of insight, that all occurred to me around that album.
Greg KotHOST
Like you were saying, the fact that they were devoting this much time and space, because I started subscribing to Rolling Stone around that time because my interest in that type of music was peaking.
Bill WymanGUEST
But then you turn the page, and they had 12 more reviews, like capsule reviews.
Bill WymanGUEST
You know, Dave Marsh, Ellen Willis, whoever, all the critics of the time.
Jim DeRogatisHOST
Mm-hmm.
Bill WymanGUEST
Which was just, when I was a kid, I was like, "What is going on?" So that's another thing I remember, that there was an import given to the album at the time by Rolling Stone that was unprecedented.
Steven HydenGUEST
Like, just going to the library.
Steven HydenGUEST
Ellen Willis was someone that-
Craig FinnHOST
Mm-hmm
Steven HydenGUEST
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Craig FinnHOST
Yeah
Steven HydenGUEST
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Steven HydenGUEST
if you read Ellen Willis now, her writing, it feels like it was written last week.
Craig FinnHOST
Mm-hmm.
Bill WymanGUEST
And I will further, and we should celebrate that.
Bill WymanGUEST
We want, you know, the guy, Dave Marsh, who just recently died, he was a critic, you know, he was a very pugnacious confrontational kind of guy, but you know what? He was writing at the same time as John Landau and Greal Marcus and Jonathan Cot, Robert Criscow, Ellen Willis, you know, all these amazing writers back in the seventies when you and I were growing up and just reading all this stuff.
Bill WymanGUEST
And he was just one voice.
Bill WymanGUEST
And I, you know, I disagree with him.
Nick ShillingfordHOST
The New Yorker said of her in 1974, quote, Carla Payton, an excellent black R&B singer from Champaign and her lackluster white male band, the Cole Kitchen, end quote, was the only rock band at the National Women's Music Festival in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
Nick ShillingfordHOST
That June 17th, 1974 New Yorker article was by Ellen Willis.
Nick ShillingfordHOST
Cold Kitchen played around the Southern Illinois area throughout the 70s, including that concert at the top of the show from 1972 in front of a studio audience in Carbondale.
Nick ShillingfordHOST
Two years before that, there was a concert that didn't happen in the Carbondale area.
Dana GoldbergHOST
Now, Mr. Wenner's comments drew an immediate reaction, by the way, with his quotes mocked on social media and past criticisms unearthed of Rolling Stone's coverage of female artists under his, uh, under his tenure, Mr., Mr. Wenner's.
Dana GoldbergHOST
Now, Joe Hagan, who in 2017 wrote a harshly critical biography of Mr. Wenner called Sticky Fingers, he cited a comment by the feminist critic Ellen Willis, who in 1970 called the magazine viciously anti-woman.
Dana GoldbergHOST
In a statement issued late Saturday by a representative for Little, uh, Brown and Company... excuse me, Little, Brown, and Company, the publisher of his book, by the way, Mr. Wenner said, "In my interview with The New York Times, I make comments that diminish the contributions, genius, and impact of Black and women artists, and I apologize wholeheartedly for those remarks." All right.