A few words on OiNK, just to get them off my chest and hopefully not overlap too much with much better/more thorough things elsewhere. I was sort of a lapsed member; I get way more promo crap now piling up outside my apartment than I know what to do with, and I don’t really [...]

While noting the existence of the best post-Flickr picture blog, I offer this photo, forwarded to me by a friend who snapped it while driving through rural Indiana. Also: that’s a lot of staples.

Matthew’s current indie-net hype jawn is a well-articulated distillation of what I was trying to say here, (and much better here) in many fewer words, and with much more Archers of Loaf. He says “reputation economy,” I say “prestige economy,” but I think the sentiment remains: the current state of indie music fandom is [...]

I stumbled upon the intriguing, well-archived Elektra “master discography,” cataloguing up to 1973 the stable of the label probably most known for signing the Doors, Love and Tim Buckley. Digging around in their late 50s/early 60s roster, it appeared to me that the label, like several of the larger indies today, cast its net [...]

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As Carl recently wrote, there’s been a lot of meta-blog-chatter floating around the Web lately, kickstarted by two independent happenings: first, a very fun to read “music-blogger symposium” at Rockcritics.com featuring such luminaries as Carl, Simon, and my good friend Maura dishing their feelings about the medium, its past/future, etc., and second, the [...]

In our (and, I’m assuming, every sentient Internet being’s) lead story this morning, noted alternative rock band Radiohead has developed a weird, web-based idea to promote/sell their new record In Rainbows (does anyone else remember with fondness those days when Thom Yorke was a vitriolic technophobe?). You can buy the digital version and name [...]