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Elsewhere in the country, the problem is an overstock of music blogs — everyone and her brother is posting MP3’s and chattering about the alleged contents of the possibly-legit leaked track list of the forthcoming Wolfdeer EP or whatever. Here in Pittsburgh — seemingly not so much. I can think of one or two music blogs beyond this and the other fulltime publication in town. On the flip side, there are a hundred thousand blogs on local politics (though those have been falling with regularity of late, so I shouldn’t speak too soon).
So what’s the problem? Is it just that I live under a blogrock? Or do we in Pittsburgh have no time for such pithy stuff? Is it that we’re satisfied with the handful of music-scene-based forums that exist, and don’t feel a need to create blogs in addition?
Obviously, I don’t know the answer, or else my post title wouldn’t have a question mark in it. I’d be interested in knowing what you, gentle (well, okay, probably slightly aggressive) reader, think. Do you have a local music blog that I just don’t know about? Do you have a good reason not to? Should music blogs transcend geographic limitations, thus rendering this question moot?
Do feel free to post in the comments and tell me what’s up.
This article appears in Mar 12-18, 2009.
I don’t think you live under a blog rock, Andy. Speed of the Pittsburgh Sound has only existed for a month, so I’ll excuse the negligence. Come check out http://www.speedofsoundpgh.com for all things musically related to Pittsburgh.
Several are tracked at http://pittsburghmusicblog.blogspot.com. About 5 that I know of offer near-daily content, and at least 1 posts downloads pretty regularly.
Sweet, thanks for the links, folks! I was aware of a few of the blogs tracked on that pittsburghmusicblog site but not all of then. Excellent.
I’ve actually seen a decent number of Pittsburgh based music blogs, but have yet to locate a single populated and/or functioning forum dedicated to the same purpose.