By rapid consumption, I mean intense infatuation of an act caused by a desire to be the blog to discover the next big thing. This is passed on to consumers who want to be the member of their group to claim they heard the band first.

This is causing a rather short shelf life for acts, getting chewed up and spat out rather quickly.

Remember Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah? Some Loud Thunder wasn't that bad, and not too radical a departure from their first record which garnered them copious amounts of praise and buzz, but by then the love affair was over.

Are these blogs good or bad for the industry?

Are a ton of bands undeserving of accolades being propped up or are good musicians simply being digested at an alarming rate?

3/20/2008 8:07:50 PM

Who cares what we think? You're the judge.

3/20/2008 8:26:31 PM

I don't know about reviews on the blogosphere, but there sure seems to be a massive proliferation of shitty indie rock and *-core bands in recent years that people splooge all over and then we never hear from them again after two years.

I don't really listen to that kind of music, but I had a friend give me a bunch to listen to, in hopes that he could give me some diamonds in the rough that would get me into The Scene. There have been a handful of pretty interesting albums among them, but I still mostly stick to my own stuff.

3/20/2008 11:23:04 PM

I really hate it when people use the word "blogosphere"

3/21/2008 1:17:53 AM

this is one of those inbetween Lounge and Chitchat threads that ends up somewhere wrong.

3/21/2008 1:26:46 AM

do your own Com 250 paper, dude.

3/21/2008 7:30:46 AM

The blogosphere is full of retards. No one really gives a fuck about what any of them have to say. Good bands will remain good bands after they're no longer popular.

What I think you are seeing is that shitty bands get hyped by retards. Indie fags looooove blogs, so they circle jerk on that band until they find another shitty one to hype. They justify their borng lives through inreased page views. They are incapable of generating content, so they have to either steal the hype off good content or generate their own hype on junk. Since good content more than likely came out of a professional source, the blogosphere is late to the party and cant steal as much hype and must turn to generating their own.


tl:dr: Indie fags love t hype shitty bands on their shitty blogs. Any good band will survive just fine, so if you think a band was destroyed by blogosphere hype they're probably a shitty band.

3/21/2008 8:35:09 AM

ttt

3/21/2008 6:27:23 PM

Who cares what we think? You're the judge.

3/21/2008 6:47:46 PM

MF LOL!


but seriously


I think blogs are great for getting a band's name out, but they're turning into tiny NME's extolling way too much credit on bands

3/21/2008 6:59:09 PM

Quote :

"a ton of bands undeserving of accolades"

3/22/2008 9:57:23 AM