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Ever since the fall of <\/span>Pitchfork<\/span><\/i>, music journalism has been really confusing for me. I don\u2019t want to read about why a pop song I love is a 6.5 and some obscure German noise producer is a 10. This kind of cruel criticism isn\u2019t inspiring good music anymore. <\/span>Dazed<\/span><\/i> can\u2019t post something without getting mocked. <\/span>The Fader<\/span><\/i> only cares about rap, and indie magazines like <\/span>Spin<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Consequence of Sound<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Brooklyn Vegan<\/span><\/i> have virtually dedicated their audiences as 30-somethings. Living in Boston, I tried to read\/write for local music-focused magazines, but there\u2019s only so many times one can talk about Vundabar. I was lost, looking for a strongly curated voice to tell me what to listen to. <\/span><\/p>\n Then I found Lorem Ipsum<\/a>. As someone with a short attention span and a big love for email newsletters, I was already in the ballpark for this, and once I found out about LaCroix Boi in one letter, I was convinced. Lorem Ipsum is music\/food\/culture letter written by Margot Boyer-Dry, a Brooklyn-based Wesleyan graduate with a biting take on popular trends. Each thrice-weekly email takes a trend that gives rise to social movements and tracks it throughout culture, like: house plants, the word \u201cDotard,\u201d or why Parquet Courts collaborated with a rapper on their latest single. <\/span>The newsletter often highlights emerging artists in its issues, giving equal air time and fair coverage to local artists and megastars; recent features include DRAM, Chronixx, Sinkane, and Parquet Courts. If there\u2019s is one thing music blogging needs these days it\u2019s some unbiased curation.<\/span><\/p>\n Newsletters are simply one option of the growing market of subscriptions vying for your attention. New methods of communication are starting everyday, but this one is worth watching. There\u2019s a reason why most of its 100,000 subscribers are NY-based media makers who are passionate about music. We\u2019ve all done our reading, and are now looking for a cool person to say what\u2019s to hear next. Subscribing to Lorem<\/a> gives you that strongly curated voice.<\/span><\/p>\n -Allie Miller<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ever since the fall of Pitchfork, music journalism has been really confusing for me. I don\u2019t want to read about why a pop song I love is a 6.5 and some obscure German noise producer is a 10. This kind of cruel criticism isn\u2019t inspiring good music anymore. Dazed can\u2019t post something without getting mocked. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[26,208,207,206,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}