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I wasn’t planning on blogging this week, but I just found out that Paste Magazine, based in Decatur, has ceased its print publication, and I’m guessing there won’t be much else left after that. I hate to see this mag go, because at one time long ago it was fairly decent, but I have to say that I’m not very surprised this happened, and from my perspective, it was nobody’s fault but their own. I didn’t want to pile on them when they were struggling, because as much smack as I talk to other music journalists around here, I don’t want people to actually lose their jobs or anything. But now that Paste is done, I’m going to explain exactly why they have sucked so hard recently. I have absolutely no idea what their monetary situation was, but I’ll outline the reasons I feel Paste failed, and if other print mags happen to come across this, they might want to pay attention because they could be next.

Top 3 Reasons Why Paste Failed:

1) Old People shouldn’t be in charge of covering music for kids.

Now, I’m sort of slitting my own throat on this one as I’m not exactly getting any younger, and I’m sure people who want to make music journalism a career will hate this, but it’s true. A few months ago I received a promo email from one of Paste mag’s high-up dudes, shilling for some local band. I listened to the band, and they played the most cliche’ hard rock garbage, which no one has actually cared about for at least twenty years. I thought, if this guy that helps run Paste really believes in this band, if he is willing to spend his own time backing this particular group, just exactly how out of touch with what’s happening in music today is this guy and Paste Magazine on the whole? And that was their biggest problem; Paste had become so out of touch with the music scene it was covering. They were evaluating music based on ideals that were obsolete and anachronistic. As much as they were pioneers in a lot of different ways, they were cavemen when in came to gripping the current music climate.

Now, there are certainly logistical problems to letting kids run a mag. For instance, it is difficult to find people who possess both the knowledge of current styles and sharpened writing skills. But that’s exactly what talent scouts should be looking for, and as soon as they find them, they should be looking for the next ones to replace them. Instead, these institutions are typically run by a small handful of people, lost in their own bubble, slowly racing towards inevitable irrelevance. Sure, there are exceptions, really great music writers who have weathered plenty of eras well, but for the most part, people who are getting paid the most for music journalism by older institutions are by and large older journalists who could easily be outmatched by a kid in his pajamas in his parent’s basement.

The heart of it is this: If you are not putting an immense amount of effort in keeping up with current trends, you will be left behind.

2) Inconsistent voices will be ignored.

Even when Paste was more in tune with what was going on, they were always terrible at discerning the good from the great. Nobody could possibly count on Paste’s numerical values of reviews, because there was no cohesive rhyme or rhythm to them. It felt like there was a whole bunch of different people all tossing around opinions randomly. It may seem that in theory being democratic about the many voices inside your institution will reach an even-handed, median voice, but in practice it doesn’t work. That is one of the biggest reasons blogs have taken over, because most of the time they contain a singular voice. There are lots of music journalists who I read regularly that I rarely agree with in terms of music taste, but I can always count on them being consistent with their evaluations, and thus I can make sound assumptions based on their work. Just having a hodgepodge of opinions is beyond useless for the end user. One of Pitchfork’s biggest achievements is managing their writers and numerical grades. Even though hundreds of different people write their reviews, you can always count on Pitchfork to have a reason for their tone and number grades, whether we disagree with them or not.

The only big institutions that will survive this print-tumbling era will be the ones who develop and maintain a consistent voice.

3) Music journalism isn’t as important as it used to be.

This is another one that my many music journalist friends won’t want to hear, but you ignore it at your own peril. Before anyone with the slightest bit of resourcefulness and access to the Internet could download any record they wanted, there was a need for gatekeepers to inform the masses what was worth their dollar. But now, aggregators and torrent site’s top lists do a better job of efficiently communicating the best new music then 99% of music journalists out there. With so much music being created, and attention spans of readers diminishing, there just isn’t that much demand for long-winded, deep-digging album reviews. People want to know whether they’ll like the record or not, plain and simple. Now we may all want to harken back to a simpler time when music journalism came with it a certain amount of status and honour, but today most paid music journalists are nothing more than concealed publicists, pandering to their ever decreasing amount of ad revenue. We may all wish that people couldn’t steal music, and that everyone who wants to could stay employed, but you can’t operate a business on wishful thinking.

The economics is this: Demand is shrinking, and supply is growing exponentially. If you don’t understand this, your music mag will fail, and even if you do understand this, your mag will still probably fail.

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I wanna devise
a virus
To bring dire straits to your environment
Crush your corporations with a mild touch
Trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
I want to make a super virus
Strong enough to cause blackouts in every single metropolis
Cuz they dont wanna unify us
So fuck it total anarchy
Can’t nobody stop us

You see late in
the evening
Fucked up on my computer and my mind starts roaming
I create like a heathen
The first cycles of this virus I can send through a modem
Infiltration hits your station
No microsoft or enhanced dos will impede
Society thinks thier safe when
Bingo! harddrive crashes from the rendering
Alot of hackers tryed virus’s before
Vaporize your text like so much white out
I want it where a file replication is a chore
Lights out shut down the entire whitehouse
I dont want just a bug that could be corrected
Im erecting immaculate design
Break the nation down section by section
Even to the greatest minds its impossible to find

I wanna devise
a virus
to bring dire straits to your environment
crush your corporations with a mild touch
trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus

I want to develop a super virus
Better by far then that old y 2 k
This 3030 the time of global unification break right through they
terminals, burn em all
Slaves to silicon
Curupt politicians with leaders and thier keywords
F.B.I and spys stealin bombs
Decipitate thier plans in thier face and catch the fever
Everybody loot the stores get your caned goods
Even space stations are having a hard time
Beast keeepers seek to take our manhood
Which results in the form of global aparthied
Ghettos are trash dumps with gas pumps
Exploding and burnt out since before the great union
The last punks walk around like masked monks
Ready to manipulate the data base and break through em
Human rights come in a hudreth place
Mass production has always been number one
New Earth has become a repungnent place
So its time to spread the fear and the thunder some

I wanna devise a virus
to bring dire straits to your environment
crush your corporations with a mild touch
trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
I wanna devise a virus
to bring dire straits to your environment
crush your corporations with a mild touch
trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus

Discovery: Dan the Automator               Wiki [+]                     Myspace [+]

All The Saints 11:30pm
The N.E.C. 11:00pm
The Coathangers 10:15pm
The Selmanaires 9:30pm
Hawks 9:00pm
Predator 8:30pm
Balkans 8:00pm
Abby Go Go 7:30pm
Carnivores 7:00pm
Mermaids 6:30pm
Hollow Stars 5:00pm
This Piano Plays Itself 4:30pm
Tv Torso 4:00pm
Lyonnais 3:30pm

It’s going down this Saturday at 1200 Foster St. Atlanta Ga 30318. The fest is free, but they may be charging for parking if you don’t carpool efficiently so be aware. This is going to be a fun one for sure. More info here.

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I have like 10 vids lined up waiting to be posted but this one had to cut ahead of the line due to it’s hilarity not it’s musical prowess.

– sign this petition to keep google from being evil + moveon.org

-First of all, I don’t know what funny-con means. I completely made it up.

- Exhibitionist (n) – a person who behaves in ways intended to attract attention or display his or her powers, personality, etc. (2) a compulsive desire to attract attention to oneself, esp by absurd or exaggerated behaviour or boasting.

- Is this not funny!?!

- “Don’t you twitterstand?”

- ” YOU BASTARD! YOU SUMMONED THE “FAIL” WHALE!

Supernews! [+]

Current TV [+]

Burning entire body of work, 35 paintings, gasoline, 2006.
By Daniel Adam Turner

All The Saints
The Coathangers
The N.E.C
Selmanaires
Hawks
Predator
Balkans
Abby Go Go
Carnivores
This Piano Plays Itself
Mermaids
TV Torso
El Fossil
Lyonnais

Music Starts at 1PM and runs until whenever
1200 Foster St. Atlanta Ga 30318

ITS FREE

Festival facebook page

On a related note, the Goat Farm now has new owner.

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The little party we used to throw at Lennys Bar has come along way…..This Saturday is Down and Durty at Graveyard, and boy we are getting durty. The boys from Cobra Corps have teamed up with Vice Magazine, Colt 45 and The Southern Style Djs to bring East Atlanta one hell of a banger. The Booty Bas Bikini Bash is for anyone who grew up on Booty Bass or just has an appreciation for Booty Bass. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the bassed-out bastard child of the South, heres the breakdown :

The term booty bass can refer to several different, loosely related genres of music.

Miami bass – largely based in Miami throughout Florida, with some roots in Atlanta. It is essentially the second form of Hip-Hop to come into existence, but wasn’t known by the media until the 1990′s, when the music had become stigmatised by explicit lyrics; includes performers like 2 Live Crew, Kilo Ali, DJ Kizzy Rock, Dj Jelly, Raheem The Dream and many many more…

Ghettotech – largely based in Detroit, Michigan, considered a fusion of Miami bass with new school Detroit Electro, despite it not resembling either. The tempos are far faster than either genre, and it maintains the repetitive nature of modern post-rave global electronic dance music.

Ghetto house – largely refers to later period Dance Mania Records recording artists. This is a brand of new school House music performers who loop often X-rated lyrics over House beats.

Baltimore Club – Also known as Baltimore Breaks, this genre is popular mostly in Maryland, and the music genre Ghetto house borrows many elements from it, with the exception of being based on House music instead of breakbeats.

COBRA CORPS AND GRAVEYARD TAVERN PRESENT: /// DOWN & DURTY: THE BOOTY BASS BIKINI BASH

/// SATURDAY, JULY 17TH GRAVEYARD TAVERN EAV (1245 Glenwood Avenue Southeast ) 11PM – 3AM FEATURING: :

:: SOFA KING ( COBRA CORPS )

Sofa King, the self proclaimed fuer of the south, will be bringing you a rapid fire barrage of bass, breaks,quakes and booty shake for all in attendance . Make sure to check out his latest mix Mein Kampf and keep watch for his new project ” DEAD BEAT DADDY ”

DOWNLOAD MIEN KAMPF : http://www.mediafire.com/?zjifeiieojr

::: THE SOUTHERN STYLE DJS ( Dj Jelly and Dj Hotsauce )

The Dynamic Dj Duo known as the Southern Style Djs are A-Town royalty when it comes to keeping the party crunk. The legendary Djs Hotsauce and Jelly teamed up a few years back and the rest has been history, be it in some luxe club in Japan or a dive bar in East Atlanta. Jelly and Hotsauce bring a ruckus . Check out their site (www.astheworldspins.com) for all of their latest mixes and exclusives.

SPONSORED BY: ::: VICE MAGAZINE ::: COLT 45

LADIES IN BIKINI’S FREE B4 MIDNIGHT

FREE COLT 45 B4 MIDNIGHT

HOSTED BY :::: C.WILL (COBRA CORPS) AND JUICY TAY (COLLABORHATE)

PHOTOS AND VIDEO BY: ::: OHSNAPKID :::