How sad is this? The Washington Post gets the drop on almost every Australian publication with its summary of Australian music in 2012
How sad is this? The Washington Post gets the drop on almost every Australian publication with its summary of Australian music in 2012: It’s been an especially fruitful year for my favorite geographic micro-genre, with woozy, wobbly, strummy guitar rock emerging as a distinct sound Down Under. One reason for the largely unified aesthetic is […]
NPR’s ‘What Happened To Music Writing This Year?’ | An Answer
Here’s my answer. You can ignore it if you want, but fuck. It would be a shame if everyone does.
STATE OF THE MUSIC PRESS.
This was the year I became convinced that there wasn’t a secret world of great Australian music writing I simply wasn’t privy to.
SPIN Magazine ceases publication
BuzzMedia: Defining Culture. Addicting Audiences.
Why I Still Write About Music
Always keep music central in the conversation about music
The art of creating popular music criticism in 2012 | 50 REALLY HOT PHOTOS OF KATY PERRY TOPLESS*
So. I guess my question for today is: Is it all worth it? Is this what we really have to do to compete in the modern world?
Music criticism as it could be
The garrulous flippancy ominously forebodes. I do forbid that their overly zealous residency finds a little frivolity in the sense that these lesbians aren’t shy of being gay or Canadian. And it shows.
The Opposite of Work
If you’re going to break a rule try to make sure you did a good job at it. Nothing is sacred but everything matters.
Another letter to the poor sods at Uncool magazine…
“Mumford & Sons’ singular importance in rock’s current moment cannot be underestimated,” is not a sentence I ever imagined I’d read.
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