No Gatekeepers, Tastemakers or Influencers
Another bleedin' music blog you cry...why? I'll tell you why..... I have been reading blogs for years, especially music blogs. There were 2 or 3 I used to read religiously but they have unfortunately fallen by the wayside....they were good blogs because THEY TOLD ME WHAT THE MUSIC SOUNDED LIKE. Browsing recently I was faced with blogs that were either written by frustrated journalists thinking they were up for a Pulizer or they slavishly just stick to one 'genre' (*warning - genres will be a future rant*). If a blog tells me, in whatever language the writer sees fit, what the music sounds like I'm happy - I can make a decision to buy or not to buy on that information. If a writer starts bleating on about how the music brought back memories of a glorious holiday in the Norwegian fjords, that doesn't really help because I WASN'T THERE! Now, I'm not saying this blog will be more worthy or better written (in fact it won't) and I'm certainly not say...