Geoff Edgers of the Boston Globe, on his blog Exhibitionist, adds another perspective to the ongoing discussion of Atlanta Journal-Constitution classical critic Pierre Ruhe’s employment status: that of Hank Klibanoff, AJC managing editor for enterprise, who says that Ruhe’s job was never in jeopardy in the first place. Klibanoff has some pointed words for bloggers who repeated information from published accounts that now appear to have been hasty, if not entirely erroneous. (Obviously I have to consider myself among that number, even if I wasn’t among the big fish cited.)

On the opposite coast, Orange County Register critic and Classical Life blogger Timothy Mangan offers some common-sense tips on how readers can help support the cause of at least some local classical critics.

Clarke Bustard, the long-serving classical music critic of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, has been blogging about the arts in Virginia for a few months now at The Letter V.

Some recordings of interest that I’ve covered in recent issues of Time Out New York — one short but gorgeous disc of post-rock minimalist chamber music, and two hot roots-rock CDs by singers new to me:

Redhooker – The Future According to Yesterday (Soft Landing)
(CD Baby)

Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles – Diamonds in the Dark (Sugar Hill)
(Barnes & Noble)

Amy LaVere – Anchors & Anvils (Archer)
(Barnes & Noble)

Playlist:

Various Artists – Before the Revolution: A 1909 Recording Expedition in the Caucasus and Central Asia (Topic)

Björk – Homogenic (Elektra)

Roxy Music – Stranded (Virgin)

Slow Six – Nor’easter (New Albion, due July 31)

eRikm/dieb13 – Chaos Club (Erstwhile)

Keith Rowe – The Room (Erstwhile)