Today, the former music editor of Willamette Week, Mark Baumgarten (full disclosure: a former colleague), announced that he accepted a position as the executive editor of Seattle Sound

magazine.After leaving WW, Baumgarten served a short-lived tenure as the editor-in-chief of Metro magazine, the monthly magazine in Minneapolis owned by Tiger Oak publications, which also publishes Seattle, known for such groundbreaking reporting as “The Pulse: What’s Hot and What’s Not in Seattle.” (This month, regular mailboxes were “out.”)Baumgarten stated that he’s moving back to the Pacific Northwest “some time in the next month.” He also stated, of his Minneapolis-to-Seattle move, that “Wet is the new cold.” Despite the inherent difficulties in running a monthly–his presence may not be felt until the first issue he edits hits the stands in a few months–Baumgarten brought a great sense of community to the music scene in Portland while at Willamette Week. I will personally make sure to look at a copy when his name’s in the masthead.