Sean Adams from Drowned In Sound offers some thoughts on how the flood of new music and the 24/7 music news cycle has lead the site to stop following what might best be referred to as the Pitchfork model. I’m especially impressed by the idea that that sort of coverage is an insult not just to readers but to the artists themselves: “You’d [be] for forgiven for thinking every last morsel of rock’n’roll’s cadaver had been gnawed, yet every day another Forkcast exclusive is mass-mailed out and interview time with bands who’ve done a session for a BBC 6Music evening show is offered up – I have no idea anymore what I’d ask some band who I’ve never seen live and only heard two songs by, just feels insulting – to them, especially.”
In my ample recently unemployed days I’ve been thinking a lot about what to with this blog, what direction to take it in, how much time I can devote to it when it brings me no money at all (those Google ads are there for a reason, folks; one click a day, that’s all I ask), and lot’s of other things that are of no real interest to anyone but myself. But this piece gives me a hint. DiS is right, I think, to take themselves out of the hype stream, but at the same time to take advantage of it. There’s tons of information out there, and though in some ways it is overwhelming, it’s also bound to put you in contact with music and ideas you never considered before and that will lift your spirits, elevate your mind, and maybe even make the world a better place (it has happened, you know). Fishing in the hype stream without becoming a part of it, that’s the trick.
