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June 18, 2009

The Death of Music Criticism or How to Ensure Your Own inevitable Demise in 140 Characters or Less... 'Crowdsourcing killed Punk rock'...

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Yesterday, our good pal/rock twitic Christopher R. Weingarten took to the stage at the 140 Character Conference to talk about the content-free nature of so much music discussion on Twitter–and the wider Web–these days, and he threw in a few bits about the ever-dying breed of the “rock writer” and the way “crowdsourcing” killed indie rock in there as well. His charisma and smarts and the way that the crowd basically ate out of the palm of his hand (see also) filled me with something that kind of resembled hope!


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#1 Paulwilson says:

wow Musformation totally anhilated this guys stupid ideas
http://musformation.com/2009/06/rock-...

#2 bloviator says:

Dude is way too reductive and alarmist and he speaks in web/music industry cliches. In a year, he will still be here and so will good/bad music writing.

Everyone calm down.

#3 a says:

you shout loud enough into a microphone to criticize a the users of a novel form of social media for being too self centered, you are bound to become the center of that self selected group's attention. hope the ego stroke feels good chris.

#4 musicdude says:

This guys Chris Weingarten IS the problem. Who does 1000 album reviews for twitter. Fucking idiot!

Critics are even more needed now that there is so much more crap cause of the internet.

We need filters.

#5 jones says:

hey weingarten... 1994 called, they want their clothes and job back.

Sorry bro, you're outta of luck. The power has returned to the people because of the internet. You're the reason people hate bands (like Fleet Foxes) because you over-hype them. That dude at musformation made you look retarded, too.

#6 el oh el says:

lol @ every musformation contributor stanning for their colleague here. that "takedown" was written by someone who has even less of a handle on coherent arguing than he does on grammar.

#7 Daniel Thomas Brookes says:

Didn't this dude drum for Parts and Labor? He was way sick.

#8 Mark says:

How could anything be "killed" that was born dead?? "punk" was a parasite on body of rock rock music, and rock music died long ago. the one or two times in the last 25 years that an attempt to rescusitate the dead victim has been made, "punk" with a virulence like the black death ensured that the "rock era" would remain just that. history. because "punk" was always concerned more with fashion trends and brazenly exploitation posing as "cynicism, it remains interesting to coporate advertisers trying to pin down white 20 somethings. let the industry die that killed off anything worth listening to years ago. and let "punk" die into the dust with it.


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