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Memories Of Zings Past With The U.K. Music Press [Move Over, Aquemini]
Posted on September 10, 2008
As its name suggests, the blog Archived Music Press is a collection of scanned pages from the British weeklies NME and Melody Maker from 1987-1996. The scans up the nostalgia factor of reading this stuff again (Simon Reynolds has been doing the same thing on his archive blog, ReynoldsRetro), but the main reason I'm posting is a recent addition: Dear Backlash, David Stubbs's omnibus response to Melody Maker reader letters, and one of the flat-out funniest things I've read in an age. Stubbs skewers his targets so cheerfully it throws the premature jadedness of most current Web-based music writ...
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