Matthew Perpetua and Fluxblog make the NY Times, fame and fortune is his

just flush your laptop down the toilet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q

http://evolver.fm/2012/04/04/legendary-music-blogger-sean-adams-on-slow-death-of-mp3-blogging/
this actually seems pretty dumb to me. o god, what will happen if everyone can be an mp3 blogger.

megalol @ use of "slow"

omg this thing that was around for less than a decade is no longer a thing!

the slow death of fax machines

lo, we will look back on the golden age of mp3 blogging, where people downloaded just one or two tracks and then forgot about them.

the slow death of the Segway

remember when that one critic dude put up his mp3 playlists as albums of the year in pazz & jop? that was truly mind-blowing.

Adams: There’s no problem with it, but I do think you need to have listened to a certain amount of music to be able to state that something is the best thing around right now.

this article is gold

lol

If writing about music is like “dancing about architecture,” as the now-hackneyed phrase would have it, music blogging is like walking through buildings with an architectural expert.

in other words, a total drag

wait wouldn't that be reading music blogs?

ha yes.
i dunno, i've enjoyed some mp3 blogs like anyone else, but giving the these bloggers some kind of mystical "tastemaker" status is seriously the lamest thing. who cares.

they were tastemakers for about five minutes when the taste was mash ups and bedroom electro pop

not to be a dick but as one of the early guys with this nonsense, i don't even really remember drowning in sound?
the "tastemaker" thing was by far the dumbest aspect of this miniblipmovement.

and this shit had ground down to a nub about three years ago already?
http://www.themorningnews.org/article/music-bloggers-roundtable-redux

i don't know drowning in sound either.
yeah, i liked this "movement" because it let people share their own little niches of musical interest, not because i wanted to hear the latest brooklyn band.

i remember Drowned in Sound as an unreadably ugly Britishes Indie site tbh

they were tastemakers for about five minutes when the taste was mash ups and bedroom electro pop

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REX THE DOG REMIX

this guy girl talk, he's gonna be big

i seem to remember going to see MIA's first NY show with matt and maura and a lotta bloggy people at one point
she was not very good

rip annie from norway

the only thing worse than people conflating the importance of "tastemaking blogs" in 2005 was the inflated sense of self worth ILX had about its importance in 2004

KELEFAH SAID ILX! WE DID IT!

xp it's sad she was a dj
(still listen to her stuff btw)

little did we know we'd all become successful types ourselves
i credit ned

worse things: not knowing how to use the word "conflate"

the slow death of ILX's self-esteem

you guys are gonna feel like real idiots when PURO INSTINCT blows up

i ran into an old friend who tried to convince me the "tastemaker" thing mattered and he referenced a few bands i wrote up early on in their careers and when i went to look the posts up, I found google had pulled a LOT of my old posts
chillingeffects.org

little did we know we'd all become successful types ourselves
i credit ned

?! (I mean, I thank you, but Tom Ewing, surely.)

lol, i was just testing my candyman powers
and yes, Tom.

i've said this before but Matt's a nice guy and it's a shame he got hassled off the board.

the slow death of the dictionary

i've said this before but Matt's a nice guy and it's a shame he got hassled off the board.

I agree, personally. was he ever really on here tho...? I don't remember seeing him post much. He had some REALLY bad blood left over from the Fake Matador board, most of which I thought was silly.

xxpost

For real. He's the one who clued me in to ILX. Which I'm sure he'd apologize for profusely if he hadn't been chased off.

matt definitely posted frequently on ilx in the first half of the 2000s

And, yeah, he used to post here quite a bit, but it's been a long while.

he and Dom had problems

He was on here a lot for years but he was not well suited for the snipey hardman zing swing ilx took.

did he actually go to war w/ anyone? i feel like a lot of the noize dude nastiness toward him seemed to be pretty one-sided and kinda coincided w/ him posting less. i might've missed or misremembered something though.

it felt like what you outlined there. Though maybe he just got too busy? I always hope that's what happens to people who stop posting.

he and Dom had problems

I don't think this is in any way unique to Matthew......

Essentially, they let regular civilians mp3 bloggers do what only MP3 bloggers print publications used to do: Identify music worthwhile of publication to the global consciousness and then publish it. Everybody can be an “MP3 blogger” music jounalist of sorts, by merely logging in to Spotify with Facebook signing up for blogspot.

I can only hope to someday forget Urge, MTV/Microsoft's failed attempt to use music bloggers to save the .wma file

"snipey hardman zing swing" <-- these are very fun words to say together like that.

still lol-ing about "regular civilians." i mean, i know this is what the mp3 bloggers look like when they get together, but come on
http://themoraltimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/olympians.jpg

1998 - 2012 these are the years during which I was not interested in mp3 blogs at all

nir >>>>>>>> any mp3 blogger ever

i tried to get a job at urge and was rejected!