MusicisArt. Love this blog, for a couple of reasons. The first obvious one would be the design. I don’t often visit blogs in internet-physicality, as I keep up with them through feeds and such with my Google Reader. But when I do visit, I always enjoy my stay. I don’t even like purple, but the design makes me like it. It’s different from the rest, which leads me to my next reason for being a fan–the content and writing style is different. Danielle excels at looking at and presenting music with, through, and alongside with visual artists. I don’t know how she pulls it off; she manages to keep me interested in the musicians she’s talking about, and also shows some brilliant visual art at the same time, photographs, paintings, whatever. She’s completely different and perfectly okay with it, and it just works. Not to mention the music she showcases is almost always brilliant. I also loved her Song/Context/Result series, the most recent one being number 7. Definitely check that series out, its excellent.

If you’re looking for a new music blog to check out, try this one. And, because I’m bloody cheeky, I’m dedicating an mp3 to the lovely musicisart author, Danielle. I hope you laugh. And actually enjoy the song, cos its flipping good.

 Daniella - John Butler Trio: Play in Popup | Download

Recently I was feeling pretty sorry for myself and my situation in general (its been a rough couple of weeks, and it ain’t over yet) when I did one of my record 6 hour surf-a-thons on the interweb. As LovetheMusic is something that requires a lot of my attention, and finding music is what I do, I of course ended up scouring the web for mp3 blogs. Good ones. We all know about Stereogum and Pitchfork, hypemachine and elbo.ws, and various other golden oldies. But what about the hidden treasure of music blogs? There’s tons and tons of links to mp3 blogs in the sidebars in many of these websites, and although I’d love to dedicate hours to exploring each and every one, I decided there had to a better way to find out about the kickass sites that we read and don’t mention. And, I’d love, and think that other mp3 blog authors would love to find out about them. All about finding new good stuff and a nice amount of networking. So, I’m proposing a kind of mp3 blog tag. Not only will it bring traffic to the smaller mp3 blogs we don’t know about, it will tell us all about them why they’re awesome, and help generate traffic for the participating bloggers and also, myself. Everyone wins.
If you want to participate, heres the deal:

• Write a blog post showcasing a kickass music blog that is relatively small. Or, if you don’t currently read one that is considered ’small’, or not very well-known, choose a major kickass music blog you read. I don’t really pay much attention to Stereogum. Maybe I should. Tell us why. Or perhaps one you’ve been reading for years that is consistently awesome. Tell us why. The tone and format of the posts, the kind of music they talk about, the really cool web design, the author is really sexy, whatever.
• Link to the blog, giving them a trackback on one of their posts and just a plain link to their blog. Let them know the deal, ie, ‘Hey, your turn. Write about a kickass blog.’ They’ll need to link back to you and link to the blog they’re writing about also. Also, a trackback to this post would be good, so we have a compilation of all them.
• When the rounds been going for a bit, I’m going to make a compilation of these posts and links to their respective blogs here, as a master list. It will be updated as needed, and linked to as a permanent fixture in the sidebar.
• By the way, don’t be corny. I wouldn’t expect you to. But just, don’t. Even if its a ‘check this out. I read ‘em all the time and they rock. Link here.’ Its okay.

I hope this will be fun and enjoyable. I originally was looking for a way to generate more traffic and ideas for this blog, and this idea sort of sprouted, and then bloomed into something more than just a traffic generator. Its just a good way to explore the nooks and crannies of the net and bring them to front.

Thanks in advance for participating. I’ll begin. Per the point of this post, I don’t know of a particularly small blog, so I’m going to talk about MusicIsArt in a coming post.

Love yourself,

Jen