On Monday, Rolling Stone debuted it’s online subscription model, as well as a much-needed website facelift. Unfortunately, it may be too little, too late. In the years Rolling Stone wasted their web-space, with nothing to show but a handful of articles hosted on a domain, music blogs and site[...]
Archive for April, 2010
April 20th, 2010 - 2:02 am § in True/Slant
Music and the Media, Part 2: A Rolling Stone gathers no mass
April 19th, 2010 - 8:01 pm § in True/Slant
Jim DeRogatis to Sun-Times: Goodbye
On Monday evening, Vocalo’s Robert Feder reported that Chicago Sun-Times music critic Jim DeRogatis left the newspaper for a career elsewhere: Jim DeRogatis, co-host of Chicago Public Radio’s nationally syndicated “Sound Opinions”and one of America’s premier authorities on everything [...]
April 19th, 2010 - 3:27 am § in True/Slant
SNL's Thrilla Killa Klownz vs. ICP
That whole Insane Clown Posse’s turn towards appreciation of life’s little wonders, aka the “Miracles” music video, just won’t quit. People are loving hating eating it up, and the meme seems endless. Or at least endless on an Internet time-scale. Take the most recent ep[...]
April 19th, 2010 - 2:46 am § in True/Slant
Music and the Media, Part 1: Everything killed the radio star
The past few years, one word has come up constantly in conversation about today’s pop music: Balkanization. Be it another teeny-indie scene given the tag “glo-fi,” or another subset of Brooklyn bands revisiting the aural atmosphere of ’60s garage pop, the message remains loud[...]
April 18th, 2010 - 7:44 pm § in True/Slant
You Say Party! We Say Die! drummer dies
Sunday afternoon, NME reported the death of Devon Clifford, drummer for Canadian power-punk band You Say Party! We Say Die!: You Say Party! We Say Die!‘s drummer Devon Clifford passed away this morning (April 18), after collapsing during the bands gig in Vancouver on Friday. Clifford was 30[...]
April 16th, 2010 - 4:17 pm § in True/Slant
Tea Party Movement finds flow with rapper
Who knew that our country’s forefathers were such good rhymeslayers? Apparently, this guy [via New York Magazine]: [vimeovid id="10969400"] Yep. The Tea Party has hit its tipping point for parody, and this time their critics really didn’t have to do anything. Political rap is all well an[...]
April 16th, 2010 - 1:07 am § in True/Slant
My Record Store Day wish list
Dear jolly, rotund Record Store Day Man, Gosh, is it almost Record Store Day again? I’ve waited so long for this day to come! And I’ve been a really good music writer this year, Record Store Day Man. Honest I have. (Well, unless you ask brokeNCYDE.) I wrote my heart out about all the ban[...]
April 13th, 2010 - 1:28 am § in True/Slant
Free the Music: Das Racist
Free the Music is a guide to new albums, EPs and songs that are available for free online. Today’s drop is: Das Racist – Shut Up, Dude. In today’s everyones-a-blogger, link economy online community, many an Internet scribe would be content with where Brooklyn’s Das Racist was[...]
April 9th, 2010 - 2:28 am § in True/Slant
The worst music criticism: A review
I recently critiqued an article by Steve Almond that I felt unfairly and naively lambasted music criticism. Almond wrote music criticism is pointless: I disagreed. And then I stumbled upon something that support Almond’s point 100 percent. I still don’t agree with what Almond wrote, bu[...]