Elbows Music Blog Community

yeah blogroll isn't all that hot aside from prestige (uuhhh. my blog is listed on so and so site.)



for google, post on comment and put in link to site works just as good.  Linkback and site collaboration actually drive traffic more than sidebar.

bastids.... (None of blogs I post at do nofollow, so I just assume everybody is kinda lax about it.)

Thanks Bryon, it's actually the second time in a week that we've hit #1 -- though it just hit it's "3 day limit". Also got one at #9 currently. Amazing source of traffic flow!

"Congrats on getting #1 on hype btw. That track is amazing."

"Thanks Bryon, it's actually the second time in a week that we've hit #1 -- though it just hit it's "3 day limit". Also got one at #9 currently. Amazing source of traffic flow!"

Sad, disillusioned, confused, disappointed, embarrassed, wrong goals, broken ideals, missing what's important - the writing, finding/exposing new emerging bands, the music, helping to develop your local music scene, instead aggregators, aggregators, aggregators, traffic, #1 on hypem Damn, fuck all....

Hawkmoon, I'd like to think we have pretty good content, particularly in comparison to the majority of blogs out there that simply post links to songs.

That said, to each their own. I myself will admit that I particularly enjoy watching my website grow, and aggregation has been instrumental in that growth. For the most part, I am trying to transition the writing to my contributors so that I can focus on broadening our reader base. I don't quite see the point of exposing an up-and-coming band to an audience of 30. Now, obviously you and I have different approaches, but Indie Shuffle's goal is not to write about the most popular thing of the day in hopes of climbing an aggregator rank (we'd call it Pop Shuffle or Shitty-Remix Shuffle if that were the case). If a track happens to hit #1 on Hypem, that's awesome, and I feel as if I've helped bring exposure to a group.

Regardless, the bottom line is that we're writing to share music what we enjoy. Therefore, sir, I respectfully disagree with your high-and-mighty put-downs. The spirit in me just can't sit back and simply write pretty prose--I want people to see it. I'd like to end this with a "fuck you," but that just wouldn't be nice. So here's to people having different approaches. Cheers!

I am going to link up. (but posting on recent indie rock has been sparse. I'll do it first opportunity.)



consider opening a "page" basically either on going big project or collection of your post in one page.  That will enhance your site stickiness. aside from obvious thing like link between posts. They work and fun to do.

cb chris, there's plenty of truth to that, but at the same time many of those coming for the "free mp3" end up looking around, listening to more music, adding on twitter, following on RSS feed, commenting, and even contributing. Now, while a good half of the hypem visitors end up browsing the website, I'd say it's a sparse few that get more in-depth. Still, I'd take the #1 rank on hypem or a similar blog aggregator any day. It's a great way increase a reader base, especially for a new website like mine.

p.s., it's hard to not be passive aggressive when you're writing in a forum on a computer screen.

p.p.s., I do believe that I interpret what hawkmoon said as being a "judgment call" on my interest in focusing on "the writing, finding/exposing new emerging bands, the music, helping to develop your local music scene" etc. I'd like to think that I'm balancing his approach and my website's publicity.

This is my blogroll, there are many like it, but this one is mine.

telling someone 'I'd like to end this with a fuck you, but that just wouldn't be nice' is pretty much still telling them 'fuck you'... c'mon now 



the only thing i want to transfer onto my contributors is the burden of maintaining the site so that i can use my time to capture all that sweet, sweet music-blogger poontang that's out there. i remind them of this every day, and they keep telling me i'm crazy... but i'll show them who's crazy when i bag the only babe in the world who is attracted to a dude whose goals in life include sitting at a computer all day posting music videos while making dick and fart jokes online with his friends. Someday...



someday...

Chris, ... dude, I'm right here.... (as long as you take me to all the gigs I want, and pay the bills) xoxo

Sorry indieshuffle, just taking the piss out the language you were using, that's all, no need to pay attention.  You don't hear that kind of vocabulary outside of meetings over here, that's all.  Really bad meetings too.  Meetings where people are trying really hard to look clever and professional and they can't do it by having anything intelligent to say so they do it by slathering their banalities in corporate meetingspeak.  I find it really hard to resist my general inclination to be snide in such meetings unfortunately, which is why I no longer work for a large company.