Welcome to Perspective: Reviews
Hello out there!
My name is Rachel and I've been writing reviews for several years. I've written mostly for an American online review magazine called Rambles and a Canadian music website called Canadianbands. My experiences with these sites have been mostly positive; but I've gotten to the point where I have lots of reviews to write and post that are time-sensitive and have specific reasons for being written. For this reason, I think it's time to strike out on my own, do my own editing, and start posting what I want when I want.
A bit about me: I live in Southern Ontario, Canada, and spend a lot of time in and around the indie clubs of downtown Toronto, listening to great music. I'm an adventurous music lover - I follow the suggestions of friends and actively seek out new music. So far, this has been a wildly successful way of doing things and I have no plans to change!
It all started about 5 years ago when I followed a random link on a Blue Rodeo message board to the website of Aengus Finnan. The description that a fan of his had posted sounded interesting, so I looked around on his website and read some of the lyrics from his newly released CD. They were so engaging that I ordered it the same day. When it arrived at my house, I pressed play on my CD player and heard music unlike anything I'd ever heard before. So this was folk music - and I loved it. I grew up listening to a lot of different kinds of music; but most of it was pretty mainstream and relatively ordinary.
The first review I ever wrote was of Aengus' CD Fool's Gold. I met him soon after and he has since introduced me to people who have introduced me to people and so on and so on. I think of it as something like that Minesweeper game you get with Windows: you click on one box (that'd be Aengus) and the whole field opens up. I'll be forever thankful to Aengus for his role as the portal to so many good people and so much good music.
So...that brings us back to the focus of this blog: reviews. I have a stack that I've written for Rambles that have been published there - I'll be posting my favourites here, as well as anything new that I write.
I'm really looking forward to having control over my own reviews - I hope that they serve to introduce people to new artists, or to give people more information about artists they already know.
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Rachel
My name is Rachel and I've been writing reviews for several years. I've written mostly for an American online review magazine called Rambles and a Canadian music website called Canadianbands. My experiences with these sites have been mostly positive; but I've gotten to the point where I have lots of reviews to write and post that are time-sensitive and have specific reasons for being written. For this reason, I think it's time to strike out on my own, do my own editing, and start posting what I want when I want.
A bit about me: I live in Southern Ontario, Canada, and spend a lot of time in and around the indie clubs of downtown Toronto, listening to great music. I'm an adventurous music lover - I follow the suggestions of friends and actively seek out new music. So far, this has been a wildly successful way of doing things and I have no plans to change!
It all started about 5 years ago when I followed a random link on a Blue Rodeo message board to the website of Aengus Finnan. The description that a fan of his had posted sounded interesting, so I looked around on his website and read some of the lyrics from his newly released CD. They were so engaging that I ordered it the same day. When it arrived at my house, I pressed play on my CD player and heard music unlike anything I'd ever heard before. So this was folk music - and I loved it. I grew up listening to a lot of different kinds of music; but most of it was pretty mainstream and relatively ordinary.
The first review I ever wrote was of Aengus' CD Fool's Gold. I met him soon after and he has since introduced me to people who have introduced me to people and so on and so on. I think of it as something like that Minesweeper game you get with Windows: you click on one box (that'd be Aengus) and the whole field opens up. I'll be forever thankful to Aengus for his role as the portal to so many good people and so much good music.
So...that brings us back to the focus of this blog: reviews. I have a stack that I've written for Rambles that have been published there - I'll be posting my favourites here, as well as anything new that I write.
I'm really looking forward to having control over my own reviews - I hope that they serve to introduce people to new artists, or to give people more information about artists they already know.
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Rachel
posted by Observer | 4:27 p.m.
2 Comments:
Well, here's to lots of well written and interesting reviews by you.
And here's to clicking on Aengus. As one of the many flowers in the field he opened up for you, I'm glad you detonated that mine.
(Okay. I'm stopping now. Not only have I used up all of your fun mixed metaphor, but I think I've managed to make it sound creepy, too. ;) Go me!)
the other Rachel
Thanks guys! I hope you enjoy your time on this little blog.
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