December 2011
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Pitchfork Top 50 Albums of 2011, in US Sales
Fascinating to see the numbers but also shit-scary reading. Be curious if anyone has compiled similar for DiS’ top 50 in terms of UK or US sales?
perpetua:
Eric Harvey put this together earlier this month, after he and I got the idea to put this together last year. I’m reblogging again because some people have asked me about it, and because his version is weirdly difficult to find on...
seaninsound | This Is My Jam →
What’s your jam? I hear this awesome site is now outta beta…
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“Consensus is mendacious. A composite of multiple, often conflicting individual...”
– via The Mire » Suffering through suffrage: Compiling The Wire’s Rewind charts
I feel totally and utterly out-nerded by The Wire. Which is probably exactly as it should be. (My year-end list explanation is here and also a far shorter version here). Guess I should probably start reading The Wire...
Drowned in Sound's Albums of the Year: 5-1 →
A lorra words from me, hope you don’t dislike this year’s list (seems to be going down much better than any list I remember (so far)).
"A new way to distribute money to artists"
rawkblog:
I’ve been getting more and more emails about “innovative” start-ups promising new ways to pay bands: $1 a month subscriptions, charity methods, t-shirts, etc., but all of these are really creating new ways for middle men to profit off the backs of artists. (Not that journalists don’t, but we’re not taking a direct cut.)
You want to create a new way to distribute money to artists? Buy...