Worst Music Writing 2007

http://www.nylonmag.com/

any piece that uses about.com as a source loses at life.

There are so many gems in that one. Indie rock music is both a blessing and a curse.

"For my report I decided to write about indie rock"

http://www.indieradiolive.com/

This site is a goldmine!

"With the current pop music charts mostly dominated by dance hall hits and rap music, what seemed like a new rock revolution in the late 90s lead by indie rock bands like The Vines and the White Stripes fell off in favor of more stylized acts and heavily produced pop tracks."

WHO LOST GARAGE REVIVAL?

The conflation of "indie" and "alternative" is making my head hurt.

Oh, go listen to your dance hall hits and rap music, you reactionaries!

The about.com article is also informative, with helpful Smithereens recommendations.

I chuckled at this when I saw it on pfork today:

Indeed, seeing members of self-proclaimed "gypsy punks" Gogol Bordello on stage with the Material Matron during the naval gazing Live Earth festival hints that Eastern European folk-influenced rock acts may have reached maximum visibility.

Yeah, whatever happened to Mike DeVille?!

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0900entertainment/0050artsnews/tm_headline=songs-are-why-i-got-into-musical-rat-race&method=full&objectid=19724848&siteid=50082-name_page.html

This is from my local (tabloid-sized) broadsheet and the fella writing the article is a Welsh singer-songwriter. He's also the paper's CD reviewer.

We got one of these threads for the 08? Ben Walsh (such a 90s lads mag journo name) decides that an Eagles review is the best place for him to desperately reassert his a) masculinity and b) love of obscure underground counter-culture acts like Neil Young.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/the-eagles-o2-centre-london-799750.html

Dissing Level 42 = AUTOMATIC CARLIN FATWA

bad writing, but where's the masculinity stuff?

british standards of masculinity

the whistle only dogs can hear

guy goes to Eagles show, gets all mad that the band he is seeing are the Eagles

I'd guess he's bringing up Neil Young to highlight the turns his career took after a successful period in the early 70s, how he managed to reinvent himself now and again, whereas the Eagles got kinda stale. Compare and contrast, innit. Nothing to do with Young being "obscure".

The Eagles didn't get stale, they just quit.

We got one of these threads for the 08? Ben Walsh (such a 90s lads mag journo name) decides that an Eagles review is the best place for him to desperately reassert his a) masculinity and b) love of obscure underground counter-culture acts like Neil Young.

-- Dom Passantino, Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:47 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Worst Music Reading 2008.

^^ lives up to name

wtf, that terrible article about joshua bell busking won a PULITZER?!

link doesn't work, but that is a little surprising. That article struck me as an unremarkable example of freakonomics journalism.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html

They eat that Dickensian aspect shit up @ PPHQ!

http://therawness.com/fun-with-hipsters-the-digital-internet-jukebox/

Not starting a new thread just for this but jesus fucking christ.

I think the original term for this was "wyatting."

that hipster article :|