Tag: Music journalism
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RC 377: Where’s There To Go?
Looking for a wintry reflective podcast to kick off the new year? Look no further than Radio Clash’s latest episode, featuring Arabic resistance music, bluegrass and folk mashups, and nods to Terry Hall and the late David Bowie. With insane metal and pop/glitch manga fusion, this podcast has it all!
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Shitty Mashups
Really liking this fairly new podcast Shitty Mashups – ‘A Music Podcast For People Who Hate Music’, a weekly podcasy where Ian and Ryan face off in a mashup battle to make the best/worst mashup possible on a theme judged by Shane. Also there are wildcards where the other contestant can sabotage each other after…
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The Clockworks & Dry Cleaning
These fingers were made for pointing…. These fingers were made for pointing….These fingers were made for pointing…. I have been listening to a lot of Dandelion Radio in the last few months, especially their Festive 50 and December/January shows which a chock full of music I missed in 2020. Also I love some of the…
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Stewart Lee on arts funding
Worth watching this clip from a 2010 interview with Stewart Lee on arts funding…I think this very much has come to pass, much more with Cameron and co, where University is where you go to learn jobs that make money. And I think the point about the arts ‘fighting the war on their terms’ is…
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Churnalism
First time I’ve heard the phrase ‘churnalism’ but I instinctively and immediately knew what it meant. The article in question about the coverage of Kim Gordon points out quite a few of the things I’ve been blathering on about here – apart from the important feminist point that why is a woman so multi-faceted and…
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Down at Maggie’s Content Farm: How greed is killing music journalism
I’m sure someone will point out the exceptions, but this article about how the background strings of corporate music blogging (how my fingers even hate to write that term, but sadly has existed for years) is killing music journalism. Yes a sensationalist title, but I’ve noticed the constant drip of ‘Top Ten Singles By Some…