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November 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
How Do You Find Music? How Does Music Find You? How Has That Changed?
Do you ever stop to consider the changes that have been made to the way you find music? Is your approach still the same? Surely it’s changed, you’ve changed formats, the formats have changed – in terms of delivery approach, in terms of regularity, in terms of how and when you receive them – as […]Archive
May 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Write On: Aiming To Keep Going
I can remember the very first thing that made me want to write about music, the very first experience. It was a school assignment. Sixth Form Journalism – and we’d get these weekend assignments. One time we’d have to do a lifestyle feature on a living grandparent, or interview a pet or whatever. A mate […]Archive
May 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The Beginning of Music Writing*
They had said, “Never met your heroes”. He had found a way around that. Taking a tape-recorder made (all) the difference. *for Lester Bangs on the anniversary of his deathArchive
December 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Talk Back: When Musicians Take Fire At The Critics
A while back I was given a very nice gift – the May issue of Creem magazine. From 1977. There’s an almost unintelligible review of Leon Redbone by R. Meltzer. And there’s a review of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours that singles out Dreams as the only decent song, suggests that Christine McVie has really let her […]Archive
November 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Coming Up with Up & Coming: The Musical Styles of the Rich and Imaginary…
I used to write some CD reviews for the student-rag. It’s a good way to start in this caper. When students ask me how to get in to this kind of writing I still recommend that. (Well, first up I tell them to go do anything else – not for fear of competition, but because […]Archive
October 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Album Review is Dead? Long Live Album Reviews!
There’s always the urge to tell a critic they’re irrelevant – and yet if you’re answering back, if you’ve stooped to battling with the critic you’re really only playing (into) their game; helping to prove their (continued) relevancy. This social media age suggests that everyone is a critic – we can now publish directly to […]Archive
August 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 29 – Sylvie Simmons
Welcome to episode 29 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. This one is a chat with Sylvie Simmons – that’s Sylvie Simmons the music writer, Leonard Cohen biographer and MOJO staff writer, legendary rock writer who was on the tour bus with Black Sabbath and Van Halen, who published the first interview […]Archive
May 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
How to Write About Music: Excerpts from the 33 1/3 Series, Magazines, Books and Blogs with Advice from Industry-leading Writers
How to Write About Music: Excerpts from the 33 1/3 Series, Magazines, Books and Blogs with Advice from Industry-leading Writers Marc Woodworth/Ally-Jane Grossan (eds). Bloomsbury Academic The always worth checking out, usually excellent 33 1/3 series (pocket-sized loved letters to classic/interesting albums, usually by authors of note and/or excellent music writers) is something of an […]Archive
September 11, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Authors I Admire: # 5 Sylvie Simmons
I started reading about music when I was 10. That’s about when I started really obsessively listening to music too – buying tapes and reading music magazines. Then it was to bios – I read about The Stones and The Beatles and some of it went over my head but that was okay, I would […]Archive
April 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Graham Reid
Graham Reid is a freelance writer, journalist and author of two award-winning travel books. He lectures part-time at the University of Auckland’s School of Music and hosts his own music/arts/travel website www.elsewhere.co.nz Here are five albums he’s loving right now (aside from those under Favourite Five Recent CDs at Elsewhere)… 1 – The 5.6.7.8’s, Bomb […]Archive
June 6, 2013 by Simon Sweetman