The Devil’s Snare Lauren Fairweather buy here (scroll down) For those who are not up to date on their Wizard Rock (WRock) knowledge, Lauren Fairweather is one half of the WRock group The Moaning Myrtles. About a year ago Lauren started writing songs outside of the Myrtles and The Devil’s Snare is her first solo [...]
As we have seen across the book, convergence culture is highly generative: some ideas spread top down, starting with commercial media and being adopted and appropriated by a range of different publics as they spread outward across the culture. Others emerge bottom up from various sites of participatory culture and getting pulled into the mainstream [...]
When I posted on this site over a year ago, and said that I would start posting about things other then music I followed that post up with three posts about music. Since I am nothing if not predictable, let’s make a post about music. The first sign that you are starting to get somewhere [...]
When I started Headphone Sacrament it was as an experiment. I’d played around with blogs before, but I could never get one off the ground. My past attempts had involved a scattershot approach where I posted what ever the hell I felt like posting. With HS, I decided to try narrowing the scope a bit [...]
I had intended to spend this weekend, the first non-working weekend I’ve had since January, writing up a big music/culture post, but then Jason posted a couple of questions to clarify my thoughts on my response to his post and they were such cool questions that I couldn’t help by respond right away. The questions [...]