Is it so much to ask that all digital media music outlets in Australia maybe don't steal their stories from NME? There's not one Australian media source that actually breaks stories. Yes, we're an over sized remote island on the flip side of nowhere and no one particularly gives a shit about us, but why can't we do better?
My main source of music news in AU terms is usually fasterlouder.com.au and it is pretty handy. Every now and then someone gets bored at HQ and makes a photo slide of 'relevant moments in music' which they have essentially ripped off from another site six months passed published.. But in terms of Australian news and sideshow info, they seem to deliver. Others find solace in themusicnetwork.com but I don't fancy being up to date with Gabriella Cilmi anymore than I like sampling a selection of anal probes. They have also proven as Splendour in the Grass' buttboy when it comes to issuing bullshit press pieces about why no one gives a crap this year.
Another website I don't mind is www.pedestrian.tv -- now this isn't a TV channel or real source of audiovisual entertainment but it's a nice collective of music, street art and pop culture updates. The editorial is witty and sometimes essence of hipsterrunoff.com but the html is all kinds of fucked up and drowning in oversold ad space. It's also infrequently updated through the week and isn't above sneaky ploys to gain extra web traffic eg. that facebook scam where a massive hack went down telling you to vote for some bitch - pedestrian banked web numbers by posting an article claiming to have info on the individual behind the scam, only to be asking a rhetorical question. We'd been had and their advertiser made cash dollars.
So what do we do? Do we resort to our local street press website which is updated a regularly as your 28 day cycle or just wait for your once a week press?
Print is dead and I'll stand by it but the Internet is as sprightly as ever so why are we missing out?
