Collapse Board Whatever happened to the music press?

Added on May 14, 2014 Lee Adcock Athens , Cars Can Be Blue , Drowned In Sound , Eureka California , feminism , hardcore , joanna gruesome , Lee Adcock , misogyny , New Sound of Numbers , Tunabunny

SOLIDARITY TIME – Word Up for Joanna Gruesome

SOLIDARITY TIME – Word Up for Joanna Gruesome

Today, kids, we are going to stand up and applaud. So Drowned in Sound interviewed Alanna McArdle lately. It’s an innocuous, friendly chat really, with ordinary journo-to-band questions about songwriting, live performances vs. recording, “the volatile state of guitar music” (which both interviewer and interviewee agreed was a load of BS), the huge corporate sham […]

Added on March 10, 2012 Scott Creney Drowned In Sound , Ethical Debating Society , Len , Scott Creney , Shrag , Skinny Girl Diet , Tunabunny , US Air

Tunabunny in the UK, part three

I have to be at work in less than 12 hours. Throughout the day people will keep asking me if I had fun in England. I don’t even know how to begin to answer that question.

Added on February 23, 2012 Everett True Drowned In Sound , Everett True , fanzines , Mekons , Melody Maker , Music criticism , NME , PhD research , Philadelphia Weekly , Poison Girls , Steven Wells , Susan Williams , Swells , The Redskins , The Three Johns , tribute

PhD research issue #3. You write to make an impact: A tribute to Steven Wells (re-post)

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Engage, argue, inform, irritate … but above all entertain.

Added on November 3, 2011 Everett True Drowned In Sound , Facebook , Music criticism , opinion , web 2.0

another conversation about music criticism on web 2.0

Everything is hidden in plain sight.

Added on October 10, 2011 Everett True Coldplay , Drowned In Sound , Everett True , Goyte , Music criticism , Radiohead , Scott Creney , The Horrors , trolling , Washed Out

Good music writing or douchebag trolling?

web 2.0 has seen a shift in perception that anything that isn’t recommendation (or polite) is trolling

Added on October 9, 2011 Everett True Collapse Board , Drowned In Sound , Everett True , Music criticism , NME , opinion , paid Content UK , Paul Morley , Sean Adams , The Guardian , Twitter , web 2.0

True on Morley

The commentary around the article is frequently more consequential than the article itself.

Added on August 23, 2011 ed Brisbane , Careless Talk Costs Lives , Collapse Board , Drowned In Sound , Everett True , Justin Edwards , Melody Maker , Music criticism , NME , Plan B Magazine , The Guardian

Collapse Board: The First Year

We’re the Millwall of the Australian music media; no one likes us and we don’t care.

Added on June 6, 2011 Everett True Drowned In Sound , fanzines , Mekons , Melody Maker , Music criticism , NME , Philadelphia Weekly , Poison Girls , Steven Wells , Susan Williams , Swells , The Redskins , The Three Johns

You write to make an impact: A tribute to Steven Wells (re-post)

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Engage, argue, inform, irritate … but above all entertain.

Added on February 20, 2011 Everett True Al Horner , blogging , Drowned In Sound , Facebook , Fleet Foxes , Hole 2.0 , Music criticism , music critics , music industry , NME , Pitchfork , Radiohead , The Arcade Fire , The Guardian , The King Of Limbs , The National , Twitter , Vampire Weekend , web 2.0

a 10 point survival guide for music critics in web 2.0

You are a critic. Not a fan. Not a blogger. Not a hack. A critic.

Added on February 16, 2011 Everett True Andrew McMillen , Brisbane , Cat Power , Denis Semchenko , Drowned In Sound , Faster Louder , Mess And Noise , Sophie Benjamin , street press , The Bronx , Who The Hell?

“I have few regrets. Writing for Fasterlouder is one of them.”

I was intrigued to read the following words from QLD journalist Sophie Benjamin on her blog …