Well, after nearly ten years as a music journalist I'm now working as a freelance music reporter.
But that just isn't quite satisfying my writing bug. So I'm going to share my love of music with the world.
Here is the goal: Review an album a day from my massive music collection. It could be something new, it could be something old. It could be a bootleg recording. I'm not promising cutting edge, but I'm always interested in new music and will gladly give a listen to just about anything - send me your recommendations.
I'll say immediately there will be some lapses - I do have at least one vacation planned and I don't have a laptop to take along. But in those cases I will endeavor to catch up as quickly as possible.
And my goal is to find something relevant to talk about outside of the album - a concert I saw recently, or some other news item that may relate to what I'm listening to. I want to make this personal, but also informative and opinionated.
The one caveat is that it is stuff from my personal collection - if I don't have it I won't be writing about it. This puts a damper on current teen pop, most country music and a lot of hip-hop. Nothing personal, and as I get more familiar with this new form of journalism I'll certainly expand my scope.
So welcome to my little exercise in blogging. But to paraphrase Marty DiBergi,
"Enough of my yakkin' let's start rockin'!"
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Cool, Mike! I'll mention this to students! PF
ReplyDeleteI'm jealous that I didn't come up with this idea first! Good luck :^) I'll be reading.
ReplyDeleteMike, when you go on vacay, simply pre-schedule your blog posts! Write them ahead of time and schedule to run each day. We learned that from working in the newsroom ;-) That way you can be sipping a mocha in Hawaii and your blog content will be updated daily as if you were right there!
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