May
20th
Thu
20th
Chain of Knives: Six Things Not To Write If You Write About Music
1. There was only one Lester Bangs. You are not him. You will not be him. Find your own voice/and style.
Don’t write: “And I was tweeking the buzz and felt that sound come over me like a giant meatball squish squishing through a mud track to nirvana or is it Nirvana?”
On my dashboard, this comes directly after the complaint “there is little to no Bangs in pitchfork…”