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

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matt fluxblog is down repeat fluxblog is down

rip blogs

Aww...say it isn't so.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7124/7153155127_9f2bdc0eb4.jpg

Flux = Sad

It woulda had that exact text if I'd spent more than five minutes doctoring the original illustration.

I was worried Fluxblog would wind up being a casualty of this current blog assault. RIP blogs, indeed. At least Matthew has other gigs now.

dunno, seemed sort of reckless for him to post those ridiculously large "year overview" things recently. literally thousands of songs, all (or at least most) commercially available.

Yeah, that was a lot of what worried me. They were awesome, but still, probably not the best time to do it.

rip blogs

― markers, Monday, May 7, 2012 4:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sadly, this is turning out to be pretty true. Third hand information, but I heard through a friend of a friend this weekend that he got a cease and desist email for posting album covers on his blog.

tbh this kind of thing has looked like an inevitability for at the very least 4-5 years now. i tried to stop posting anything that might make my sites a target way back then, i just hope they're only really paying attention to things that were posted recently but i don't know if that's naive to think.

i didn't even know ned had a hardman period

hardned

Twenty years on the Net'll do that to a person.

web life tattooed on the (ever increasing) belly

you will see perpetua change

rip big man

Google gives me this:

Fluxblog
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I think that rather than being shut down for sharing mp3s he might have been shut down by the pharma hack. Giving him a tweet... maybe it helps.

Back up now, so maybe not an RIAA thing.

No, remember that MBV group of blogs that Ryan Catbird put together? Well, the hosting went out and Ryan was incommunicado.

http://mbvmusic.com/

whoa eternal tapestry have a new album out!?

but srsly, what was the deal with that site? why did they call it mbv? ~mysteries of the internet~

many blogs (five)

u_u

hahaha

i predict someone else will take up the mantle

http://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000005955585-0y887t-crop.jpg?3508e02

tbh this kind of thing has looked like an inevitability for at the very least 4-5 years now. i tried to stop posting anything that might make my sites a target way back then, i just hope they're only really paying attention to things that were posted recently but i don't know if that's naive to think.

― some dude, Monday, May 7, 2012 2:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

heh i just got a DMCA complaint notification on my blogger account. of course it doesn't say WHAT post they took down, but it's probably a really old one from years ago when i sporadically posted mp3s. anyone have an idea how at risk i am for getting the whole thing taken down or if i should just start deleting any old expired mp3 link just to be safe, or is this all guesswork right now?

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

― the late great, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 3:30 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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