I don't contribute to this site very much, but I only ended up here because Stylus folded. I loved that site, and posted to it a lot. Some of the most intelligent, and impassioned, engagements with reviews/writing I have found. Of course, a whole lot of horseshit, grandstanding, and just plain mean-spiritedness/petty trolling as well, but OVERALL a very admirable effort to let the masses in on the experience. This site is probably the closest to it, from a feel perspective (and all the alumni of course).
― grandavis, Thursday, 18 August 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
frogbs: there was a lot of stylus/freakytrigger/ilx crossover; a lot of the same people now right for singles jukebox
― I'm a nerd and nerdy things happened (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 August 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
No trolling here! I dig Thequietus interviews, op eds and occasional reviews. Frankly I should use it more to check out what they're touting as they clearly come from the same post-punk roots as I do.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 18 August 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
i wasn't a "writer" per se... but, when Stylus closed, i was the first regular commenter they thanked in one of their goodbye pieces ^____^
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Saturday, 20 August 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
The Quietus is awesome btw
Uggh, I got mentioned in that Stylus goodbye as well. Both OK with that and totally embarrassed at the same time. Some real unfortunate posts by me in some of those pieces, but those were rougher times. Still sorry about some of them though.
― grandavis, Saturday, 20 August 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
likewise for me, i'm sure. but then it's not like i don't make unfortunate posts on ilx nowadays, so who cares
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
man, I didn't you two were commenters.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
"zarklephaser" - i've said this before!
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
same as my Last.fm username the last 6 years or however long
http://www.last.fm/user/zarklephaser
Well, it pains me to admit it, but we’ve had plenty of favorite commenters on the site. Zarklephaser, Grand Banks, Florenz6, meatbreak, raskolnikov, et al.: we salute you!
WTF I WAS CALLED OUT AS A FAVORITE STYLUS COMMENTER??!?!!!
(totally unexpected, thanks to whomever suggested that!)
― stephen, Monday, October 29, 2007 10:49 AM (3 years ago)
Hahaha, that was all Todd's doing, singling you and the others out. I don't think anything has had as much sustained, impassioned, profane and repeated discussion in our virtual office over the years as the comments boxes. God bless our readers. And hello, Zarklephaser.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, October 29, 2007 10:51 AM (3 years ago)
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, Alfred, one of my regretable moments was on a piece of yours. Sorry about that, I actually liked almost everything you wrote, but for some reason your Boredoms piece, and the subsequent comments, caught me on the wrong day.
― grandavis, Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
This news is heartbreaking. :(
― three handclaps, Friday, October 26, 2007 9:50 PM
― markers, Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
nuts that it's almost been four years since it closed . . .
― markers, Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
i kind of wish Stylus had polls.
― Wrinklepaws
― buzza, Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― markers, Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
Uggh, I got mentioned in that Stylus goodbye as well. Both OK with that and totally embarrassed at the same time.
Hey at least you got mentioned!
― Aziz Ansari & III (jaymc), Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
writing for this magazine was the second half of my adolescence and the reason i've gotten any work anywhere so yeah <3. the ideal writers' mag: polyvocal, always up for stuff, and unsustainable.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 20 August 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I am happy I got mentioned, I am imagining that I got noticed mostly for being a good poster, but sure wish I could take back some of my comments. Great site though, thoroughly miss it.
― grandavis, Saturday, 20 August 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
ha, i just found a stylus 'stycast' podcast on an old drive - an interview that todd did with me for stylus in 2005!
― geeta, Saturday, 20 August 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
The Stycasts were great. There was a very amusing one about 60s/70s stars trying to transition to the 80s.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 20 August 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
lmao @ inconceivably atrocious, bully is a stone cold classic imo
Stylus Magazine said the song was "undoubtley" Fatboy Slim's "finest moment to date", noting "the ten-minute house anthem “Song for Shelter”, whose redemptive power was so awesome that it almost saved Larry Clark’s inconceivably atrocious film Bully simply by gracing the last scene."[1]
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 02:16 (seven years ago) link
what's up with the Stylus website lately? their album reviews don't seem to be accessible anymore (and even the Archives link yields a 404 error) although their features and movie reviews are still online...
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
awww so glad you care
The site's slowly crumbling. I've been transferring reviews to my blog.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
I've done the same thing with my reviews.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
i still occasionally start typing in stylusmagazine into the search bar, from muscle memory, whenever i'm wandering the internet looking for something new
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 23:57 (seven years ago) link
cuz we still rule
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 August 2016 00:26 (seven years ago) link