MP3 Blog for old 7-inches?

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I don't do P2P but peruse multitudes of MP3 blogs. However, I haven't found one dedicated to 7-inch singles. It seems to me this is an important niche for the MP3 blog community, what with the relative unavailability of the original vinyl releases for a lot of things. I also just fear a lot great music, particularly stuff released on tiny labels between 1990 and 1996, is just going to get lost. Is there anybody out there covering this area? Do people think it is a worthwhile endeavor?

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Douglas Wolk has been doing exactly what you describe for a couple of months on his blog:

http://www.lacunae.com/

He takes 'em down after a while. I don't know what is still left up there, but take a look through the last couple months' archives.

― Reed Moore (diamond), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I check in on Lacunae often. He is definitely someone who is trying to fill the gap. My favorite for old vinyl currently is VinylJourney. Also, Bob Mould has started to post old singles, which is cool. I wish a site would pop up devoted to 7 inches that posts with the regularity of the Music (For Robots) guys. Maybe I should get off my ass and...

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago)

where does Bob Mould do his thing?

― comme personne (common_person), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Bob Mould's Boblog:

http://modulate.blogspot.com/

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Is there a genre you're particularly interested in? Quite a few mp3 blogs are specialist.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Mostly just indie rock, indie pop, lo-fi. There are particular labels, too, some big, some small, some microscopic, whose stuff I'd like to see. Examples: Pop Narcotic, Spin-Art, Pro-Teen, yadda yadda...

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago)

And My Pal God...

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago)

waaaaahhh/bringon bull mp3s are here

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 3 September 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago)

http://somethingilearned.blogspot.com/

I'd recommend crawling through my musicblog listings; I know I have a few in there that meet what you're looking for but it's not really MY cuppa, so I don't know off the top of my head...

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 4 September 2004 13:17 (twenty years ago)

I also strongly recommend that if you have a passion for this you start your own. The DIY spirit is really what the musicblog thang be all about.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 4 September 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, maybe I'll get my act together on this one...

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:24 (twenty years ago)

I've got a crate of old East Bay seven-inches in my closet. I could submit some mp3's to any blog that can store them.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:55 (twenty years ago)

i'd like to be able to do this but it'll be a while before my vinyl record capabilities are back in action.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago)

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