I asked John Richards how he felt about the story in the Stranger that I blogged about earlier.

His response was that he has gotten used to being attacked by the Stranger, claiming that the newspaper has printed similar stories attacking his integrity for the past few years.

“They wrote this same kind of article seven years ago when I started my label,” he said.

Richards says that this latest article doesn’t have a real story.

“[They say] John does this, and this isn’t wrong but they wrote it such a way to imply [that it] was,” he said. “They never mention I’ve never been paid a penny from the band and don’t have a contract with them for any future money. I was helping them get through the music waters.”

I asked him how he felt about the Stranger writing about Kexp DJs having conflicts of interest when the magazine’s writers seem to have some clear conflicts of their own. His response:

“Megan who wrote it is on 107.7 The End pretty much every week.
How is THAT not a conflict with her writing about us [Kexp]?”