Popular music-review Web site plants big wet one on popular indie-rock blog. It’s like watching the high school quarterback and head cheerleader get together, except about 5000% nerdier! More »
Sigh. Well, you can say this about Gawker Media: In the Bush era, they may be the last organization left that doesn’t resort to knee-jerk cronyism. More »
Oh, Stereogum. How much fun it must be to live your lives as if you were still riding in the middle-section of the eighth-grade school-bus, talking down to the other kids because they’re still digging Green Jellö while you’ve moved on to Superchunk. More »
A few years ago, we discovered a fledgling, semi-regularly updated music blog called Stereogum. Written by VH1 employee Scott Lapatine, it quickly became a daily read: Earnest, easily digestible, and charmingly low-fi–much like the music it covered. We loved it. More »
If you see a lot of posts on elbo.ws referencing résumé-polishing, it’s because the past few days have seen not one, but two help-wanted ads from music blogs. More »
Earlier today, Stereogum released the results of its readers’ poll, newly christened The Gummys; the albums list was topped by The Hold Steady’s Boys and Girls In America, with TV On The Radio, Grizzly Bear, Joanna Newsom, and The Decemberists rounding out the top five. More »
Firestorm at Stereogum: In their second Karen O demo post, the leaker of the demos confessed, TV On The Radio guitarist Dave Sitek’s damning blog post about the CD-R allegedly being stolen from him was reprinted, and the commenters waved “Live Free (Music) Or Die” flags. More »
Perhaps spurred on by an aghast Bono, Universal Music Group is claiming that Bank of America committed copyright violations when two employees, Ethan Chandler and Jim Debois, performed their synergy-praising cover of “One” that made the Internet rounds last week. More »
Stereogum reposted the new Timbaland/Nelly Furtado/Justin Timberlake joint earlier this afternoon, and the accompanying pan contained this groaner: Not surprisingly, the beat is awesome once it kicks in, but then we’re smacked with Nelly’s vox and umm … why does hip-hop hate melody so much?! More »
More $tereogum news over the weekend, this time focusing on how site founder Scott Lapatine’s former boss, Triple H Media head Jason Hirschhorn, helped hook him up with Pilot Group’s deep-pocketed investor Bob Pittman: According to one source, Pittman told Hirschhorn to bring… More »