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Spin's tumble into irrelevancy

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Combinethresher:

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--- Quote from: Kai ---"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. "
-Frank Zappa
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It seems like a lot of musicians seem to harbour the idea that what they do is mystic and undescribable, rendering music journalism useless. That's not true.

Effective music journalism serves many purposes, the most obvious being simply getting the name of the artist or group out there. More than that, though, it can offer different contexts through which to experience music, and help to enrich the experience for the listener.
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Yes, that is what it should do. Sadly, that's also what it rarely does. I get the feeling that most music journalists really just want to be Hunter S. Thompson, but they can't write as well, so they come off as major douchenozzles that really wish they were in the band they're writing about.

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