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nprmusic: This week, alternative rock’s bible, SPIN magazine, announced that it would eliminate the standard short album review from the magazine (and web site) in order to “reinvent the album review.” 21 staffers and freelancers will assess 1,500 albums over the course of the year, exclusively via single 140-character posts on Twitter. If Tweets replace blurbs will people start believing there’s nothing more to say? We wanted to test whether 140 characters could substitute for, say, 200 words. So our critic, Ann Powers, performed what we’re dubbing a “magic capsule” test: she picked two of the nine tweets @SPINReviews has published so far and let them marinate in the watery environment of her brain to see what they’d look like as conventional short reviews.—Jacob Ganz Compare for yourself.  via Are 140-Character Reviews The Future Of Music Criticism? As an A&amp;E Writer/Editor and constant music fan, this really worries and angers me. Not only is it attempting to condense a musician&#8217;s hard work to less than 140 characters (after the band name, album name, writer&#8217;s initials and numerical value out of 10), it is also foreshadowing the death of the album review. Lester Bangs is rolling over in his grave.

nprmusic:

This week, alternative rock’s bible, SPIN magazine, announced that it would eliminate the standard short album review from the magazine (and web site) in order to “reinvent the album review.” 21 staffers and freelancers will assess 1,500 albums over the course of the year, exclusively via single 140-character posts on Twitter.

If Tweets replace blurbs will people start believing there’s nothing more to say? We wanted to test whether 140 characters could substitute for, say, 200 words. So our critic, Ann Powers, performed what we’re dubbing a “magic capsule” test: she picked two of the nine tweets @SPINReviews has published so far and let them marinate in the watery environment of her brain to see what they’d look like as conventional short reviews.—Jacob Ganz

Compare for yourself. 

via Are 140-Character Reviews The Future Of Music Criticism?

As an A&E Writer/Editor and constant music fan, this really worries and angers me. Not only is it attempting to condense a musician’s hard work to less than 140 characters (after the band name, album name, writer’s initials and numerical value out of 10), it is also foreshadowing the death of the album review. Lester Bangs is rolling over in his grave.

— 4 months ago with 79 notes
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    As an A&E Writer/Editor and constant music fan, this really worries and angers me. Not only is
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  8. anchors-aweigh-ladies reblogged this from noradiomusic and added:
    So, I think this is a cool idea but only to SUPPLEMENT standard short album reviews. What are they thinking? SPIN must...
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  10. this--tornado--loves--you reblogged this from wheresmyindiecred and added:
    I seriously almost just started crying in public because this is so idiotic and frustrating. The album review already...
  11. wheresmyindiecred reblogged this from nprmusic and added:
    For real? Twitter is not
  12. lerecherchistemasque reblogged this from nprmusic and added:
    Ok… Réinventer la critique de disque, ça aurait aussi pu être d’en faire de plus longue et de plus complètes. Peut-être...
  13. firthofforth reblogged this from nprmusic and added:
    I think Christopher Weingarten already mastered this?
  14. cbccloud reblogged this from nprmusic and added:
    The word ‘exclusively’ seems misplaced here. The article states...full 1k word...
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    complete dissolution...music criticism,...I never have to...
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    worst ideas I’ve heard come from any music journalistic source. Most music journalists I know have complained about
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    I feel weird about this…
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