Posts tagged "music criticism"
So You Want to Be a Music Critic: An Insider's Guide

So You Want to Be a Music Critic: An Insider’s Guide

I started doing album reviews for Cavalier magazine back in the summer of ’66, my first being a review of Velvet Underground and Nico’s Banana Album, written in the form of a brief adventure story about a man whose plane crashes in the woods, who fights off a boar with an Italian penny loafer. The buxom blonde he hoists into the sunset is supposed to be emblematic of Nico’s contributions, though how exactly I can’t remember. You know what they say […]

Blerditorial: Why We Like What We Like (Part Two)

Popblerd! correspondent Sam asks a very simple question in the first part of a two-part feature article. Why do we like the music that we like?

Blerditorial: Why We Like What We Like (Part One)

Popblerd columnist Sam asks a very simple question: why do we like the music that we like?