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BECAUSE no one would read it.

in that it must feel embarrasing doing anything close to a journalistic style of writing if theres no-one there to read it. no?

I've decided it's boring, and uninspired and I'm probably not going to link anybody to it, unless I write something I deem interesting enough.

It has music, film, books, opinions, terrible grammar and spelling mistakes. Does anyone read it? hardly. Why do i write it? i'm lonely plus i enjoy it and i hope that practice makes perfect. i want to get better at writing.

encoreencoreencore.blogspot.com

link it! i want to follow

how are bb?

its not great to be honest but i dont think the writing has to be amazing, people are more interested in hearing new music than reading about it, i hope

http://nightcreeps.blogspot.com

there's no point visiting a blog that doesn't tell you what the band sounds like before you hear them, you're completely wrong! a blog like nodata wind me up no end because it doesn't give an informed description or opinion on a record but, say, deleted scenes and forgotten dreams is wonderfully descriptive and encouraging to readers to sample different and new music. Don't be afraid to voice your opinions!

yr blog looks nice. I was going to title my YYY's review 'Why Why Why?' then I decided after a couple of goes on the album that it was the wrong sentiment. Do you want to read my blog and swap YYY reviews? ha. I am tracking you now.

I have a blog. I like writing and spreading music around. No one reads it - I don't really know how to tell people to read it! How do you? However - hundreds of people read it on my myspace - I duplicate this: www.meatbreak.blogspot.com (phew - for like, the 3rd time in as many weeks) on here: www.myspace.com/meatbreakvsthejuggernaut. so i know people do read it, but they don't read the blogblog, just the myspazzblog - because I have a better network of spreading the word.

do many of you know how to subscribe to RSS feeds? I am just starting to learn all about that stuff.

I am also going to start a new blog from my dj night which will feature news and reviews and demos from new new future bands, playlists, Black Metal band of the week, and of course - Turbowolf news!

blah blah blah.

GxMx

One on my own: http://thesonicminefeild.blogspot.com/

I have been doin it for ages and I'm pretty sure it gets read on occassions I'm not to fussed I genraly do it to pass the time and geek out on music I like.

http://sonicrouter.blogspot.com/

is a more professional affair with exclusive mixes and interviews along with reviews and info on the dubstep / hiphop / bass scene. I think more people will read this one than my other one.

but i dont think it needs to be more than a short paragraph. The blogs i read the most often are the more sparse ones

my friend is/was in a horrible powercheese metal band called black static. such memories.

reviewing stuff elsewhere means that extra promos often get sent and i feel bad if they don't get a reaction. that and it's fun. Get carried away and continue to ask for more promos than i can review, just about manage them all usually.

www.popmusicology.wordpress.com

Today, Welsh-language hip-hop. Whee!

http://nopaytoplayinbrum.blogspot.com/

I like this one. The blogs I like the most tend to be well written and in depth, but not too stuffy, with a good feel for silliness. Sparse blogs just don't grab my attention, but they're sometimes a good jump-off point to find out more info. Nicer to have it all in one place though. In my view, if the writing is good and the content interesting then you're bound to attract an audience over time.

do you want a mars bar? i can post one!

i think (and always have done) that as long as it's been thought through clearly and is entertaining, you can't go wrong. and yes, you do start to build an audience over time. seems mine's taking a little while to build, but i'd say the scaffolders are definitely arriving soon.

i dont expect anyone reads it though, no

I get about 150-250 hits a day depending on what I post. Got about 1,500 hits last week I think. I write it because I love it, I get to review everything I want, create features, essentially pretend I am running my own site.

I write for a lot of 'proper' publications too so it's a good place to house all my work for any future employers to view.

http://itsgettingboringbythesea.blogspot.com/

And probably get around 100-200 hits per week, depending on how busy I am. I write for online publications and used it as a way of showcasing my writing. All the reviews I complete for websites are on there with links etc, as well as more in depth personal writing and other stupid things. I would love to turn it into a site, but don't have the time.

http://itsbasicallyjustsexmusic.blogspot.com/

I really enjoy music blogs, and a few mentioned in this thread are ones I regularly check (Pop Musicology for example). You often find a lot of good writing and opinion that isn't so homogenised as on a lot of music sites, whether community based or more corporate promotions based portals.

you should write if you want to write. fuck thinking about it any further.

2)for teh lulz
3)about 2000 people a week

just wondering whether i'd want to show it to anyone and if i don't whether i should bother tarting the writing up at all.

It's just a handy place to keep all my work in one place, in the hope that someone might read it. I have no idea how to look at viewing statistics, but no-one ever leaves me any comments, so I don't think anyone does read it, and I don't blame them to be honest. It's here - http://www.kunstlicher.blogspot.com/

I write http://songbytoad.com and I get quite a few readers - about 20,000 uniques per month.

I started it because I didn't know anyone to talk to about music quite as constantly or as in-depth as I wanted to, and my side of that imaginary conversation kind of needed somewhere to go. Since then, it's allowed me to make a contribution to the DIY music scene around Edinburgh, and various other places in a less immediate way, and to help build a kind of community.

Now it's a blog, a podcast, a record label and all sorts, and the sessions are really fun too. This is all becoming too much work, but effectively it's all just a way of expressing my enthusiasm for music, really. If I hear something I really like then I want to tell people. If that means by recording videos of them playing live in my living room, releasing their album or just blethering about them on the internet, it's all part of the same thing really.

can i get a lion bar instead? nom!

I currently use a Wordpress blogging platform for my website...mostly because I don't really know anyone with the time or the ability to design and build me a proper one at a reasonable price. It really needs a better site but I get great Google rankings and well over 25,000 direct hits a month with double that on syndication. I LOVE WORDPRESS.

http://www.wearsthetrousers.com

Just posted a huge and awesome interview with Amanda Palmer <3

Enough reallys in that response for you? Dear oh dear.

yes you do

that was meant for David_R

on blogger

it's http://maybepartyingwillhelp.wordpress.com
it gets a few hits but not many. it's not too bad.
i write it because i don't have anything better to do.

Some nice Adebisi Shank live recording today too.
http://pete485.wordpress.com/

Hardly takes any setting up, and will give you a monthly breakdown of pageviews, visits and unique visitors.

Just, erm, Google it and follow their instructions. You may have to install a little Javascript on your site - you okay to do that?

Hardly takes any setting up, and will give you a monthly breakdown of pageviews, visits and unique visitors.

Just, erm, Google it and follow their instructions. You may have to install a little Javascript on your site - you okay to do that?

http://peenko.blogspot.com/
and I track my views using this
http://www.sitemeter.com/

http://peenko.blogspot.com/
and I track my views using this
http://www.sitemeter.com/

Register, then paste the code into your Blogger Template.

Sorry for all the inactivity!

As I (mayber) said before, there's a plan to record a new thing later this year and then we'll definitely support it wit a little tour which will, in all probability take in Leeds and Manchester.

have you had a similar request in the past? probably another of the many thousand strong Manchester chapter of the Down I Go fan club itching to leap around in front of you fellows and buy merchandise. good news on the new thing... will look forward to it.

Ha!

In any case, I'm personally looking forward to getting back on it...

http://www.brainlove.co.uk

Because I write for lots of places, and for me personally or anyone else who cares, it's nice to keep track of it all in on place.

3,500 hits in the few months say someone is reading it.

My brain keeps thinking too fast for my fingers to keep up :(

bit of a blogtard. i love wordpress too though, it's like a broadsheet paper...

lion bar it is. I'm serious - want a lion bar? Email me your address and it's yours!

http://itsalrightdetroit.blogspot.com/

I haven't updated for a while. Mine isn't just for music, my one rule is no emotional outbursts, because they're tedious. I'd like to write as a career one day and was heartened by the Screenwipe writers special. I am a bit lazy, though :/

I am currently writing an article for a Newcastle United fanzine though, so I'll put that up when its done. Wanted to do my 15 album thing but forgot how to format because I'm an idiot.

It helps fill up the days, eh? It's gotten a few hits, and I get sent the odd promo for it, which is a bonus. Working on a 'Lost Albums' thing at the moment which should go up in the next week or two.

http://tracksfromthestack.blogspot.com/

so I changed for 0-comment-blogposts...

That is, 'til I did the 'what albums have you bought in 09' thread.

you've been on my blog bookmarks for about a month now, good stuff!

http://www.ToDieByYourSide.blogspot.com

I mainly post live and alternative versions of songs along with reviews and waffle and stuff. People read it and I track it at the free site Ewebcounter and it's been mentioned in The Guardian guide a couple of times.

Especially on something like blogspot which seems to come out quite high up the google searches. I write one, which somehow has generated over 80,000 hits since January despite me writing a great deal of quite banal things.

www.goatwriter.blogspot.com

and it's http://musicfansmic.com
It's relatively big because it's on hypemachine and I sometimes post hype-worthy tracks.
But I'd like to think some people go on it for the quality of writing...
By the way if anybody wants to write on this, PM ME or summat!

I think pretty much everyone knows this. Once they transcend the role of personal journal, like Stereogum and other similar blogs have managed to do, there is no doubting that music blogs become important musical resources, but really, who the fuck's even going to read icaretoomuchaboutmyownopinion.blogspot.com, never mind want to find out that one more person quite liked Elbow's new album and thought the band were robbed at the Brits.

This blog will not be like that. There shall be no reviews. There shall be no interviews. That's the plan, anyway. Maybe one day, when the delusions of grandeur kick in and I decide that I'm the number one authority on anything and everything related to music, that will change, but for the time being, I simply want to recommend bands I love to people who I think might want to hear them. Starting a blog to do that may cause a little part of me to die inside, but it still beats ramming MySpace links down people's throats every few days in terms of pride-swallowing (not to mention pissing people off), so start a blog is what I've done.

I hope to update often enough for it to remain relevant, but not so often that I'm bombarding people with so many bands that... well, that they feel the need to apply their own discretion. A recommendation is a great and weighty thing, and I have no desire to dilute that. I also have no intention of updating on a regular basis. If I discover three truly great bands in a week, I shall post three times in that week; if I discover no truly great bands the following month, then I won't post at all. That's how it's going to work. So it would probably be best if you checked back every few weeks or so. You know, when you have that "Hey, I haven't checked Days Like Television for a while!" feeling. Don't put it in your diary or anything. Also, don't feel obliged to read any of what I say. I'll probably write a short paragraph about each band I recommend, but if you don't want to read it, don't bother. I probably wouldn't. It's the music that's important, not what I have to say about it.

is also really good. Again you'll need to install html script but it provides really good analysis.

www.daysliketelevision.blogspot.com

What's this about people getting sent promos for having their own blog?

Because I have precisely zero interest in reading anybody else's blog (music or otherwise), and I'm not a hypocrite.
Apart from just now, when I'm posting this. But then, that's because I've got 2 minutes to kill 'til Simpsons o'clock B-)

not right away mind, and you kinda have to get asking around for the good stuff. I get a few for my own personal blog just from bumping into nice label peeps online and gettin on with them, then I started to write for bigger music sites and they hooked me up with some promo's and promoters.

For the dubstep blog we get a shit load but then my mate I'm running it with is really profesional and has edited big sites before. So has loads good contacts and is genraly good at shouting people for stuff. We have been running about 3 / 4 weeks now and I have about 8 hours worth of new music on promo.

We do have a kinda ethos of not leaking anything / posting released tracks and all that stuff. We just post mixes and write words. just gota show your trust worthy to get the really good stuff sometimes.

No, hang on, just boring, as usual.

to stop annoying myself as much as anything else... i had a rambling, drunken analogy based rant at a friend of mine this weekend about my love for Elliot Whale Boy and them making me feel like the man frae Metallica's One video after he had been wanked off by a sexy nurse. i'm not equipped with the ability to write glowing wordy reviews and get them printed on DiS or whatever so the proposed blog is going to be like his little morse code communication, with the whole "SOS kill me" bit replaced with "hey look at this band" like.

http://www.myspace.com/elliotwhaleboy everyone listen to African Knuckles with the bass up high.

I except snot-nosed kids from Manchester to post comments correcting my grammar.

lol

Started www.themusicmagazine.co.uk back in December '06 as a way of complementing a journalism degree, and as a one-man blog with contributions from fellow students. It was a bit rubbish tbh, however we started to get promos and stuff and everything started getting bigger. It may not be much, but we got 30,000 users last month and should hopefully be getting bigger again this month.

I've also got about 30 people on record as writers for us at the moment as well, which is pretty cool. I don't make any money from the whole thing, but we're always looking for new writers if anyone fancies it. We've always got loads of stuff needing to be covered, and accomodate live reviews, features, interviews etc.

That's my shameless bit of publicity aside. I also maintain www.scottgoodacre.co.uk every now and again, but just to republish other stuff.

but 95% are total failures...
Like my blog...

knows !

That's insane.

http://stoneskilled.blogspot.com

800 different people 'visited' last month but I think most arrive there expecting entire free albums and leave disappointed without actually reading. I do get comments/emails/'mericans sending stuff so it's cool. Keeps me entertained for a small amount of time every day anyway!

If you really want: http://noisesweetnoise.blogspot.com/
S'ok, I feel the first, and only so far post, isn't a particularily new thing to say.
I'd just like to say, I hated them first for those reasons. -_-

http://www.notaphoto.com

Why? I had photos that were just hiding on my hard drive so decided to stick them somewhere more useful and write some words to go with them. Started on myspace but after a couple of years decided to move it all to a proper blog set-up.

Some people read it but I'd still do it if no one did. It's a bit of a labour of love really.

albiet not very well written but I like doing my blog because it excorsises my opinions on various music news even though I highly doubt even a handful of people actually read it.

http://purplefebruary.livejournal.com/