My hope has always been that music websites and personal blogs would be a new, challenging and unique voice in the world of music. These would be sites that could work outside the traditional rules of “journalism,” bringing new insights and criticisms to people who are begging to find something different.
But I don’t think that’s happening.
How many times have you come across the same news items about Radiohead, Morrissey or the Pixies? What new slant are you getting on these things? What’s the point?
This is something I’ve been thinking about for awhile now, and hope to process my thoughts in a clear and concise fashion over the next few days. This will be an ongoing, sporadic series of texts written until I can come to terms with my ideas. Maybe we can figure out ways to make things better. Maybe I’m part of the problem. Maybe there isn’t a problem.
Or maybe everyone started out with the right intentions but they let things go bad, letting marketings companies and publicists co-op their souls, transforming them into the very same thing they started out to fight: mainstream media posturing as alternative press.
Discuss with me here if you’d like. To be continued . . .