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Five Ways To Not Write A Trend Piece On Music Blogs

Ah, trend stories, the bane of every journalistic enterprise. On the one hand, they are handy for editors who want to know what "the kids" who will be taking their jobs and houses are up to. On the other hand, they're generally vacuous glosses on subjects that are way too surface-gleaning to even be called "superficial." Greg Sandoval at CNet took the world of "music blogging" under his trend-story wing this morning, and if nothing else it's a primer in how not to tackle this admittedly knotty, yet way too often completely misunderstood subject. Five anti-lessons after the jump. More »

9:30 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,065 views, 6 comments

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"Rolling Stone" Blog Asks: Has Anyone Heard Of This Borat Guy?

For the last two days, Rolling Stone's abysmal blog—which is now nearly 17% readable—has been a non-stop cavalcade of Borat clips and Carol Channing references. We get the Channing love (Jann's a big Hello, Dolly! fan), but Borat? After months of press, you're only now getting to this movie? Why would you be hyping up Borat day after day unless there was some sort of.... More »

10:34 AM on Wed Nov 15 2006
By Brian Raftery
136 views, 3 comments

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Lost In Translation: What Is "Said The Gramophone" Trying To Say?

Your Idolators make no bones about the numerous music-writing skeletons in their closet; at some point or another, we've all been guilty of noting how rock is "guitar-driven," or calling something "groovy." But we are seriously confused as to just what the hell is going on at MP3 blog Said The Gramophone, where the music write-ups have become so surreal and absurd, we wouldn't be surprised if the writers are putting angel dust in their eyelids before sitting down to compose something like this: More »

11:44 AM on Tue Sep 26 2006
By Brian Raftery
275 views, 13 comments

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