Is This The New Smash Hits?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=122193692

Popworld Pulp, launching in a couple of weeks as a new music WEEKLY (v bold).

Looking at its MySpace it doesn't seem to be offering anything hugely compelling though.

Does anyone here still buy print music media, out of interest?

Comments

Re: dancing about architecture again

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is the biggest shift in the ground rules of music discourse for ages, really. Because I am 1x old man I think I still prefer a distance between reading about music and hearing it: but that distance is pretty much gone.

Re: dancing about architecture again

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I find it difficult to get enthusiastic about something I haven't yet heard these days. Also I don't listen to pop radio stations so my exposure is solely through hits!tv or the interweb.

Re: dancing about architecture again

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Basically I am hugely excited to read one-sentence recommendations of music I haven't heard, from sources I trust. But I don't like reading analyses or commentary on any music (or art/film/books) until I've done it myself...

Re: dancing about architecture again

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I like there being distance between a review and the actual music, too, cus there's something incredibly exciting about buying stuff blind (or, in fact, deaf) and I'm not bothered by doing a bit of legwork (ie: putting something into google) myself.