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mole, here iz yer nu favorite band:

http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collectionid=lf038mp3&collection=lostfrog

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

There are a bunch of music blogs which, while ocassionally too insular, offer me lots of provocative and fascinating takes on music:
I found Jess Harvell's year-end take on music on his blog very interesting even if I don't always agree with him. Jessica Hopper writes wonderfully. Dj Rupture/Jace Clayton's take on grime, life in Spain, and various others...There a Canadian guy who lives in Senegal and post about African music who's been mention elsewhere by me and others on ILM who's great. How about Julianne Shepherd, and Phil Sherburne, Christopher Porter and numerous others (I just learned from Sasha Frere-Jones blog about the jazz covers of pavement cd)...

Better now?

(My blog is called Fluxblog.)

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

matt, seriously, everybody knows what your blog is.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, yeah, I know, that's why I rarely link to it here unless I'm letting people know about a specific track. I was just responding to that guy who was complaining about people never linking to their sites.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link

dude, matt, you plug it at every opportunity! which is your right, i guess, but don't say you "rarely" link it!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

music blogs updated 24/7
http://blo.gs/3600/favorites.html

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess it's a matter of perspective - to me, I really do my best not to go around "plugging" it because I do think that's a bit tacky. I only link to it on message boards if it's relevant to the thread in some way. But yeah, I see what you mean.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Find threads from I Love Music, containing matthew perpetua fluxblog.

35 results found:

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

jesus h what the fuck do you care

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i read the grime blogs

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

You would think the blogosphere could be public diaries -- musings about this passion of ours, the great testing ground for the Big Ideas that end up in print somewhere, or maybe just write-ups of records our respective publications wouldn't let us review for whatever reason.

in other words, "They weren't what I expected them to be and that made me VEWY ANGWY!"

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

and yes, I can see why Matthew doesn't like various blogs (mine included, if mine was one of the ones he looked at). What he's failing to see (and I'm talking about him in absentia because he hasn't bothered replying to his own thread yet) is that blogs go through cycles, writing-wise. Plenty of the time they're info-dumps, list-holders, and the like; other times, there will be a meme or a topic or a controversy that various folks comment on, adding to the conversation, until it exhausts itself. right now, I'd say they're on a down cycle--even Pazz & Jop hasn't particularly excited anyone this year, one way or the other. but really they're notes-on-the-run more than anything, and I'm not sure where anyone gets the idea that they're (usually) more than that.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

in fact, I'd say that music blogs (at least the ones I know) have largely split, from places to write for people who weren't writing to either abetting/aiding printed work, or writing-about-the-MP3s-they-post. and that the excitement over music blogging is essentially about the ones that emerged a few years back, mostly, and were heavier on writing-as-writing.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Hstencil, you're being misleading now - most of those threads don't include me linking to my own site, which is what I was talking about! Most of the links that I've made to my site here have been about songs, not necessarily a "hey read my blog thing" but more "if you want the song, it is here."

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link

either abetting/aiding printed work

Hmmm...it might be me, but I don't see Freaky Trigger that way, given the regular participants in it -- certainly a number of us are published writers but I feel it has its own ethos. That said I wasn't assuming you were referring to every last music blog out there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/the_matrix__reloaded/fred_durst/matrixpre.jpg

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry I finally broke down and got a soda today. sugar rush.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link

you think he looks more like a troll, a goblin or an elf?

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Goblin.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Given the color of the cap, I would say he looks like a shithead.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

when the little man stepped in shortly afterward and asked: "Now, my lady Queen, what's my name?" she asked first: "Is your name Conrad?"
"No."
"Is your name Harry?"
"No."
"Is your name perhaps, Rumpelstiltzkin?"

"Some demon has told you that! some demon has told you that!" screamed the little man, and in his rage he ran home and wrote "Nookie."

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link

btw I just checked the Limp bizkit site and evidently Fred is recording vocals for the album in Prague.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

the world has so many wonders to it. the czech people are a very interesting society. i do enjoy it. this album is dark musically already, but when mixed with the tone in the air of prague it becomes somewhat horrifying.

wes, ross, and myself have set up protools and a beta 57 microphone in an old apartment right near the charles bridge. this is where i am connecting with the darkness. some days are explosive others just plain heavy from the gothic aesthetic of this city in general. we have gone to the other side a few times with absinthe to discover the unknown. as it seems the unknown is quite demanding these days.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:19 (nineteen years ago) link

STOP!!!!!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i have moved the fred news back to the fred thread. i apologize. continue defending bloggery.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link

hahahaha!!! Fred's blog suxx!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Rum, Bloggery, & The Lash!

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link

spoken like a true bloggerer.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I actually felt like I'd kind of said my piece (albeit w/ typos) in the initial post, and was more interested in hearing what other people had to say than anything -- thus, I hadn't yet replied.

But Matos, et al, you make good points. I had, in fact, looked at yours, partly b/c I enjoy your ILM comments. I mean, obviously, I've looked at blogs from time to time prior to this, but there's no question that I went in this time still hoping to find something a bit more, I dunno, substantive. Readable, even.

And I'm not trying to be a snob about it, but aside from the perpetually-pitched Fluxblog, which has a simple but effective mission, that wasn't what I found, really. Maybe there IS a ton to be gleaned from them, but right now, they feel very 'needle in a haystack', by and large, and kind useless to me.

All that said, Web Nymph is a pretty good place to survey what's happening on the mp3 blogs.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 12 February 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.alienjesus.com/ed/images/fred.gif

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Dear CBS,

today's episode of Without A Trace was disappointing for several reasons...

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

It's no Cold Case, that's for sure...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 12 February 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

matthew, you forgot to link the blogs in your post. pete will be ferry ferry angwee.

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Saturday, 12 February 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

http://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com/ is ferry cwoss the mersey nice

― don, Saturday, 12 February 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks, Matthew. I'd never heard of the Senegalese one. I've linked to you for a long time at (the lately slow-going) http://complicatedfun.com

I'm surprised that my polite request would irk anybody...

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 12 February 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

http://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com/ is ferry cwoss the mersey nice
-- don

I named that blog yunno

― thee music mole, Saturday, 12 February 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

he did! hey colin email me

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 12 February 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

B-L-O-G
Everyone's perusing me!

― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 12 February 2005 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link

It's been really confusing being one of two Matthews addressed in this thread.

Anyway, yeah, Benn Loxo Du Taccu has been gaining popularity over the past several months - the word of mouth is getting around. It was nominated for best African blog in the Bloggies, which I imagined raised its profile quite a bit. I'm very glad that it exists - I would love for more mp3 blogs focusing on specific non-Western countries to pop up because it's such a great resource and use of the format.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 13 February 2005 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link

If you like Benn Loxo, you should also check out Red Lotus Radio and Fruits of Chaos.

More essay-centric music blogs worth checking out:

Ye Wei Blog
Architectural Dance Society
Clap Clap Blog
Poptext

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 13 February 2005 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link

dear god i wish i'd started the following blog:

http://indierock4eva.blogspot.com/Â¥

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 13 February 2005 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Take the "l" out of "Blogger"
And it's "Bogger"...

― thee music mole, Sunday, 13 February 2005 06:29 (nineteen years ago) link

my mouth bleeds alot because i like to bite the skin off the inside of my mouth.

heres my blog... www.everythingsgonegreen.blogspot.com

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Sunday, 13 February 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

dear god i wish i'd started the following blog:

http://indierock4eva.blogspot.com/

i figured it out

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link

blogs sort of freak me out, i must admit. i don't follow the blogs of any ilxors. although i check tim finney's on occasion.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 18 July 2005 06:16 (eighteen years ago) link

how do they freak you out more than ilx itself?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 18 July 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't get it. Are those all examples of bad music writing? Good music writing? Are they all "rockist"?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:01 (eighteen years ago) link

They're examples of critics wetting themselves over indie rock, obv.

― deej.., Monday, 18 July 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

And is that supposed to show that there's some kind of music-crit establishment conspiracy to promote indie rock? Maybe the blogger ought to stop looking in publications that tend to specialize in indie rock.

It's a bit like posting examples of critics "jizzing themselves over hip-hop" that are all from Source, XXL, and King.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 18 July 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Rap reviewers don't spend lots of time speaking in preposterous superlatives about mostly-average music. Although rap reviewers are hardly examples of great crit either.

― deej.., Monday, 18 July 2005 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link

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