Time flies when you're having fun! I had a blast this past year posting a song every day (ok, fine, I only managed to post 362 songs in 365 days - sue me!) Many of the posts stemmed from surreal and amazing concert experiences, or time spent with close friends listening to and discussing the latest songs/artists/albums to blow our minds. It became clear, however, that my writing method could sometimes eat up a lot of time, listening to a track repeatedly while dissecting the lyrics and whatnot.
As part of an effort to dedicate a bit more time to other endeavors this year (like working on some of my own music), I have decided that I'm going to back off a bit here. I'll still try to post a song every day, or most days anyway; but you may get less exposition and insight. It may be I post a link or video with little to no comment more frequently, and leave it to you to listen, decide if you like it, and do some research if you do enjoy the artist.
Conversely, I think there's something to be said for quality over quantity as well. There are tons of great songs and artists out there, and I love discovering as many of them as possible and passing along the good word. However, sometimes in the past year when I had a busy day, and it's late at night, and I haven't had a particular song catch my ear, I found myself throwing up a song that might not have been quite up to snuff. Then again, since musical value is in the ear of the beholder (Willow Smith has a lot of fans, I hear), maybe it's not so bad if I post some songs that I personally only kind of like - maybe those songs will turn out to be some of your favorites. Bottom line, I'm not going to worry about it too much if I miss a day here or there and only post when a song actually inspires me to do so.
At any rate, if you have enjoyed at least a few songs I posted in 2011, you should definitely put my blog in your Google Reader or whatever you use and check it out from time to time, but don't get heartbroken if a day or two goes by without a post. If I let you down in that regard, check out sites like DrawUsLines (PGH music blog gurus), HughShows (PGH concert photos and more), or Tympanogram (Rochester, NY counterparts of the DUL crew). All of these sites put more time and effort into providing quality AND quantity content on their sites than I am able to dedicate right now.
Even better, go exploring yourself and turn up some sweet new tunes, then pass them my way and yell at me to blog about them!
May 2012 be full of joy and love and awesome songs for all of us.
~ Matt
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