Musicwhore.org Great. Another music blog. (2005-2013)

One of the more enduring in-jokes at Metafilter is HI I’M ON METAFILTER AND I CAN OVERTHINK A PLATE OF BEANS. It essentially means over-analyzing something fairly trivial, something that doesn’t happen on this site. Oh, no sir.

But I may be overthinking how much I write — or lately, how much I don’t write — for the site. I’ve got tons of stuff playing on the media player, and they’re all organized by all sorts of priorities, but do I actually sit down and get through all that work? No, not really.

In 2005, I revamped this site from a fairly interactive music zine to a simple weblog. Now it feels I need to rethink my content priorities again.

I can’t seem to shake this sense of obligation to write about every single thing I’m listening to, which is not helped by the fact I can have tons of stuff on the media player at any time. And this blog is not the only outlet of expression I have.

So I think I’m just going to continue to post once in a while when something pops up — some release news — but for now, I need to take some more time to figure out about what I want to write and how I’m going to write it.

I don’t have much sidebar real estate to devote to my blogroll, and in reality, a lot of the blogs to which I’m subscribed in Bloglines don’t update very often.

Of the ones I read, a fraction of them has a content that makes its way here to Musicwhore.org. (Oh, who am I kidding? This site is essentially Bounce.com localized into English.)

After all this time, though, I ought to acknowledge some of the other sites I read when I’m not updating this one:

• Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise I actually like Alex Ross more as a print writer than as a blogger. I pretty much follow it to keep up with what he writers for the New Yorker.

• Amped Out In my quest to find music by gay artists that don’t suck — and that’s a tall order, in my book — I follow this music blog published by PlanetOut. Most of the time, it dishes on gay-marketed music than actual music by gay artists.

• ArtsJournal ArtsJournal is an arts-focused aggregator, and it used to have a separate feed for its music coverage. I think I prefer reading about all the arts now.

• aworks I can more than guarantee that whatever Robert Gable is listening to is something you are probably not.

• Bounce.com This site would not still be running if it weren’t for Bounce.com

• Keikaku.net I’d call this site the Pitchfork of Japanese indie rock, but the writing on Keikaku isn’t insufferable. I actually lurk on the forums more than anything else.

• purple Sky I actually contributed something to the purple Sky print magazine a while back — just a top 10 list. I found the site in my referral log one morning, and I’m glad to see they’ve moved the content online. Then again, a print publication is kind of a crazy proposition in this media climate.

• The Standing Room Actual blog posts on the Standing Room have become few and far between, but the linklog has some really great finds.