Have we forgotten the joys of music blogging? | Sian Rowe

The launch of Pitchfork's Altered Zones was met with derision from bloggers sniping about 'traffic-driving ad revenues'. Whatever happened to just discovering new music for fun?Music blogs used to act like online zines, compiling the latest underground music or uncovering lost vinyl classics for a new generation. They relied on adjective-strewn enthusiasm for all things undiscovered and were unpaid apart from a few free CDs and a place on a guestlist. But with the launch of the Pitchfork-endorse...

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