Rawktumblr

Sep. 27, 2011 at 2:58pm with 28 notes

Reblogged from rachael-maddux

rachael maddux: Thinking out loud about food and music and blogs

Spurred by this post of Dave’s! I’ve been thinking about this lately—why, when there are so many “personalities” and individual critics associated with music writing, have so few been able to establish online outposts specifically centered around their own personal music-related narratives? Why…

I think, for one, foodies are having a moment — just like menswear and the accompanying wave of blogs are — and there are probably 1) more people really into food than really into music 2) those people are way more interested in reading about it. It’s definitely a different news cycle - you’re not going to get excited about the new quinoa brand at Whole Foods due 10/3 on colored vinyl, you know? So I think it becomes something people can absorb in a more all-encompassing, personal way, whereas music listeners are so defined in many ways by the narrowness and exclusivity of their tastes.

I think many of the music blogs that were really good at writing longer, more personal pieces quit in the first blog die-off (2007ish) and there weren’t that many in the first place. There certainly are almost no new ones that write exclusively about music. There’s obviously still stuff like Said the Gramophone and… oh.

And yeah, you can’t pirate a lasagna or a pair of Alden boots or stream them on Spotify. So it makes the advertising market a completely different, healthier beast.

I also think indie rock died in 2009 and we’re now officially living in the dubstep era and most new indie bands are basically the equivalent of third-wave grunge (Foster the People is our Nickelback, except with a better first single?)