are blogs influential? can they help sales? do they have any real clout?

who was trumpeting music blogs as the future of music other than music blogs

― iatee, Friday, July 25, 2014 1:59 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Xeni Jardin did a report on NPR, there was like a four page spin article with photos of noz and perpetua, ultragrrl and gvsb got major label a&r gigs,

stereogum sold for like $5mil

sarah lewitinn @ultragrrrl · Jul 11
I've held it off til now bc I was scared of how I'd feel: I finally watched the @Interpol vid and I can't deal with life and it's glory.

sarah lewitinn @ultragrrrl · Jul 11
I was sitting at the front of the bus while watching and it was the most intimate thing I've ever done in public.

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wasn't perpetua in the NYT

xp

Forgot About Z.U.N.E.

http://macdailynews.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/070514_zune_dock.jpg

like yeah the media got up its own ass a bit re blogs but honestly i'm not shocked its a media person saying the media should never forget when it oversold the media

there were definitely grander follies in the music industry than when some bloggers got profiled and a media brand was purchased for a couple million

i guess i mean the music media, not the music industry

the constant trumpeting of music blogs as the future of music was possibly the most near-sighted music-related "news" story of the 00s, and should go down as the music industry's version of the tech bubble and Ted Talks

― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, July 25, 2014 6:56 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Word

stereogum sold for like $5mil

stereogum for like 5 million vs. beats for like 3 billion.

blogs are still big, it's the music that got small