Starmakers and the Blogging World:
Elseblog @ Breakthrough Radio
We’re spending the week over at Breakthrough Radio, where the DJs pick the playlists, and the guestblogging runs Mondays through Fridays, one week at a time. Here’s today’s entry. (Warning: originals ahead!)
In addition to blogging coverfolk at Cover Lay Down, I’m also an admin and regular blogger at Star Maker Machine, a collaborative blog which uses a weekly theme to evoke a diverse set of musical submissions from a group of about a dozen bloggers with very diverse tastes. For example, this week, our theme is Winter Wonderland, which means we’re posting songs with the word snow in the title; though I’m submitting this post in advance, I have no idea what the pack has come up with, but given the general trend over there, I can predict with reasonable certainty that this week’s early entries have consisted of mostly older, well-cared-for songs from across the genre spectrum.
Since its inception less than a year ago, readership at Star Maker Machine has grown to surpass the readership of any one of our contributing blogs, proving just as well as the Technorati Top Blogs list does that group blogs bring in the viewers much better than any one of us can on our own – a phenomenon due as much to the diversity which a multiplicity of bloggers can bring to the table as it is to the sheer number of posts which only a group, or perhaps an unemployed, independently wealthy gadabout blogger with a high output rate, can bring about.
Like the blogs of many Star Maker Machine contributors, SMM trends towards older songs; as such, the blog and its denizens represent an anomalous type of blogger, who more usually justifies his/her bloggity existence as fannish promotion of the current scene. These more recent piano ballads which use the idea of snow as both metaphor and setting – Over The Rhine’s lush Snow Angel, and neo-trad folkie Kristen Andreassen’s lovely, hushed Like The Snow — wouldn’t be as good a fit there, and since they’re not covers, I can’t share them over at Cover Lay Down. But they’re eminently worth including here today.
Category: Elseblog | Tags: Kristen Andreassen, Over The Rhine
December 10th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
That Over the Rhine track is fantastic. Cheers!