I dont think they feel a need to do it, it seems that they enjoy doing it, and i say fair play it entertains them and many others, i dont think thats there's a need to confine people's roles based on what strata of the industry they fall into...bloggers probably arent 'critics' by a similarly exclusive definition, but blogging is one of the best things to happen to music writing since fuck knows. Many a time ive read a blog and thought that is absolute breeze they dont know what theyre talking about, but thats the inevitable result of a lack of editiorial constraints, but you take the information you want from it and leave the rest.Alex bk-bk wrote:Its kind of sad too that as a business they think that they need to write these bullshit paragraphs that are almost like quasi-reviews. ultimately, theyre not critics theyre vendors and so they should get on with that
Boomkat are generally a bit poor on dubstep in my opinion, although i do enjoy the input of people with such obviously different angles on the sound, and the comparisons they are able to draw as a result of their different groundings. Bollocks to every man writing about dubstep having to have a pedigree in london culture and necessarily the ardcore continuum or whatever you want to call it. History is obviously important, it goes without saying, but so are new perspectives. So while I see what you mean about the slang, why does that annoy you?
