Comments on: Heartbreak No. 3: The Blogosphere As The New Status Quo http://idolator.com/5107354/heartbreak-no-3-the-blogosphere-as-the-new-status-quo Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:52:22 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: LiquidHeaven http://idolator.com/5107354/heartbreak-no-3-the-blogosphere-as-the-new-status-quo/comment-page-1#comment-793332 LiquidHeaven Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:52:23 +0000 fba2283c972f98a6a951e7297e840f26#comment-793332 <P>No there aren't. We've all heard everything. Everywhere.</P> No there aren’t. We’ve all heard everything. Everywhere.

]]> By: T'Challa http://idolator.com/5107354/heartbreak-no-3-the-blogosphere-as-the-new-status-quo/comment-page-1#comment-793462 T'Challa Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:00:28 +0000 fba2283c972f98a6a951e7297e840f26#comment-793462 <p>@<a href="#c9416740">Lucas Jensen</a>: I'm picking up what you're putting down, sir.</p> <p>I was just making a year-end 'best of' list, and realized that it matched about 99% of every other list I've seen, from Rolling Stone down to hipster blogs (does it kill me just a little bit to see every pub in the world deciding that my fave band, TVOTR, is now 'the American Radiohead'? Yes, a little).</p> <p>It caused me to make a reactionary list that didn't include TVOTR, Fleet Foxes, MGMT, etc just to be able to mention some music that hadn't already been beaten into the ground. Not that it was so super-obscure (Alice Russell, Black Milk, etc), but still...</p> @Lucas Jensen: I’m picking up what you’re putting down, sir.

I was just making a year-end ‘best of’ list, and realized that it matched about 99% of every other list I’ve seen, from Rolling Stone down to hipster blogs (does it kill me just a little bit to see every pub in the world deciding that my fave band, TVOTR, is now ‘the American Radiohead’? Yes, a little).

It caused me to make a reactionary list that didn’t include TVOTR, Fleet Foxes, MGMT, etc just to be able to mention some music that hadn’t already been beaten into the ground. Not that it was so super-obscure (Alice Russell, Black Milk, etc), but still…

]]> By: Lucas Jensen http://idolator.com/5107354/heartbreak-no-3-the-blogosphere-as-the-new-status-quo/comment-page-1#comment-793342 Lucas Jensen Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:36:40 +0000 fba2283c972f98a6a951e7297e840f26#comment-793342 <p>@<a href="#c9436925">DocStrange</a>: There are plenty of new artists out there that you just haven't heard. This kind of myopia is exactly what I'm talking about here!</p> @DocStrange: There are plenty of new artists out there that you just haven’t heard. This kind of myopia is exactly what I’m talking about here!

]]> By: T'Challa http://idolator.com/5107354/heartbreak-no-3-the-blogosphere-as-the-new-status-quo/comment-page-1#comment-793352 T'Challa Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:02:01 +0000 fba2283c972f98a6a951e7297e840f26#comment-793352 <p>PS: I heart Idolator.</p> PS: I heart Idolator.

]]> By: T'Challa http://idolator.com/5107354/heartbreak-no-3-the-blogosphere-as-the-new-status-quo/comment-page-1#comment-793362 T'Challa Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:00:08 +0000 fba2283c972f98a6a951e7297e840f26#comment-793362 <p>@<a href="#c9424093">Michaelangelo Matos</a>: Well, maybe just a little...</p> @Michaelangelo Matos: Well, maybe just a little…

]]> By: DocStrange http://idolator.com/5107354/heartbreak-no-3-the-blogosphere-as-the-new-status-quo/comment-page-1#comment-793372 DocStrange Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:40:36 +0000 fba2283c972f98a6a951e7297e840f26#comment-793372 <P>@<A href="http://idolator.com/5107354/heartbreak-no-3-the-blogosphere-as-the-new-status-quo#c9432978">Thierry</A>: what? christ. There really were no new new bands this year. Except White Lies. But then they were called Fear of Flying for like two years. Um...who else....Noah and the Whale and..um...</P> @Thierry: what? christ. There really were no new new bands this year. Except White Lies. But then they were called Fear of Flying for like two years. Um…who else….Noah and the Whale and..um…

]]> By: Lucas Jensen http://idolator.com/5107354/heartbreak-no-3-the-blogosphere-as-the-new-status-quo/comment-page-1#comment-793382 Lucas Jensen Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:37:01 +0000 fba2283c972f98a6a951e7297e840f26#comment-793382 <p>@<a href="#c9423111">Mike Barthel</a>: I am not saying that no blog rock is a bad thing at all. It's not really about individual artists. It's about independent artists on not-so-obvious labels if any at all. As a former independent publicist I worked tons of great records that we struggled to get placed, like a lot of other publicists. There is a lot out there that people don't know, and the blogs were an exciting place for new bands to gain some press foothold. If the blogosphere as a whole is seen as me-tooing Pitchfork or SPIN then there is a problem.</p> @Mike Barthel: I am not saying that no blog rock is a bad thing at all. It’s not really about individual artists. It’s about independent artists on not-so-obvious labels if any at all. As a former independent publicist I worked tons of great records that we struggled to get placed, like a lot of other publicists. There is a lot out there that people don’t know, and the blogs were an exciting place for new bands to gain some press foothold. If the blogosphere as a whole is seen as me-tooing Pitchfork or SPIN then there is a problem.

]]> By: Thierry http://idolator.com/5107354/heartbreak-no-3-the-blogosphere-as-the-new-status-quo/comment-page-1#comment-793392 Thierry Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:47:38 +0000 fba2283c972f98a6a951e7297e840f26#comment-793392 <p>@<a href="#c9432978">Thierry</a>: The '59 Sound is their third release (an album in 2007, an EP and an album in 2008).</p> @Thierry: The ‘59 Sound is their third release (an album in 2007, an EP and an album in 2008).

]]> By: Thierry http://idolator.com/5107354/heartbreak-no-3-the-blogosphere-as-the-new-status-quo/comment-page-1#comment-793402 Thierry Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:44:40 +0000 fba2283c972f98a6a951e7297e840f26#comment-793402 <p>@<a href="#c9426882">DocStrange</a>: The Gaslight Anthem's album is at least their second - if not third (haven't been able to check yet) - record.</p> @DocStrange: The Gaslight Anthem’s album is at least their second – if not third (haven’t been able to check yet) – record.

]]> By: Michaelangelo Matos http://idolator.com/5107354/heartbreak-no-3-the-blogosphere-as-the-new-status-quo/comment-page-1#comment-793442 Michaelangelo Matos Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:22:20 +0000 fba2283c972f98a6a951e7297e840f26#comment-793442 <p>@<a href="#c9418874">T'Challa</a>: If it makes you feel any better, I called them "the Williamsburg Radiohead," not the American one.</p> @T’Challa: If it makes you feel any better, I called them “the Williamsburg Radiohead,” not the American one.

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