Even though this has absolutely nothing to do with the writers’ strike that’s crippling Hollywood, it’s interesting to note the recent influx of musicians who are temporarily ditching their day jobs to become music writers. Case in point: Former Talking Head David Byrne, who trekked to England last week to interview Radiohead’s Thom Yorke for an upcoming issue of Wired (the idea makes sense, especially since Radiohead took their name from a song off the Talking Heads’ True Stories). Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein has also joined the rock bloggin’ act (that is, when she isn’t making hilarious videos with Saturday Night Live’s Fred Armisen as the comedy team ThunderAnt) as the author of Monitor Mix, NPR’s new music blog (sample post: “Songs in commercials are the arranged marriages of the music business, with the fans as the naive bride or groom, forced to pair that which they hold dear with something they have yet to meet”).

Then there’s Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, who just began writing for the Seattle Weekly. While Novoselic talks at length about his band’s breakthrough hit “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” it’s obvious that his interests still lie mainly with political writing. What gave us that idea? “Popular political thinking is like a three-legged stool. One leg is reactionary conservatism, another reactionary liberalism and the third apathy. All three seat into to a centralized government / economic structure.” For the moment, it doesn’t seem like Novoselic (the author of Of Grunge and Government: Let’s Fix This Broken Democracy!) is gunning for our jobs at the Rock Daily blog, but Tim Dickinson over at National Affairs better watch his back.

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