Definition of the Day: Music Bloggers

Characterized by their excessive exclamation marks, fan-boy enthusiasm and trenchant ability to copy, paste and link to other websites, music bloggers have become important cultural harbingers in recent years. Loudly lauding the virtues of underachieving and underappreciated indie-rock acts, bloggers have made chart-topping stars of multi-culti gypsies, Beirut, sing-along emotionalists, the Arcade Fire and off-key caterwaulers Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah.

Much to the chagrin of the media establishment, bloggers' amateur journalism and superfluous fact-checking needs have superseded the institutional press’ authority and social relevance forcing mainstream publications to essentially re-write articles in a conversational, dim-witted voice and post them in rudimentary html blog-designs to appeal to their ardent constituency.

Blogger can range in quality; from the too insightful, therefore tedious Coolfer, the inside baseball echo chamber Idolator, to the feel-good, water-cooler friendly Stereogum.

A reliable species, the music blogger is dependably homely, rotund and socially awkward; more comfortable behind a computer screen than dealing with dreaded public interaction. The one exception being the rock concert – a sanctuary where pasty-skinned bloggers suddenly become mild extroverts; crossing the Mason-Dixon Line between privileged music industry elite and ticket-buying civilians to fraternize with fans, shamelessly snapping photos and vying for set-list access.

Recent empirical evidence shows that despite tangible cultural contribution, the bloggers relevance continues to ascend. France's version of the keener amateur journalist is the blogueur. Dude, did you check out the new Takka Takka mp3 over at Brooklyn Vegan? Bro, it was sick.