As I’m sure you’ve all guessed…
An Album A Day Keeps Death at Bay is somewhat, well, dead. It has been more or less for the last six months and I apologize for not posting this notice earlier. It has nothing to do with RIAA warnings or any sort of legal recourse from an outside party, moreso it has to do with my lack of time/motivation to continue working on this blog. This does not mean I have stopped entirely, though. On my main blog, Neighborhood Threat, I’ve carried on the short-form music essay style that this blog came to be known for, as well as posting pertinent and live links to downloads of new music. I plan on continuing with this for as long as I can without interruption.
Truthfully, I just lost my mojo to generate exciting and new content, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to find and share music and writing with you all. At the current stage, my main Tumblr page is my homebase and the blog you should be following for all things that this blog once offered. Looking ahead, I want it to be known that this blog will return in a completely rebooted and reformatted version with much more interactive and exclusive content that will cater to both musicologists, fans, critical listeners, writers, and more. Until then, I want to thank the 1000+ followers who stuck with me this long and helped make this blog mean something. This site was created because I wanted to share both great music and great decent* prose as a way of unifying people to an idea as much to one another, and as Shakespeare said, “If music be the food of love, play on.” This website born out of a labor of love and was intended to direct readers and users to the history behind the music I and many others love. The response was overwhelmingly positive and helped me to learn a great deal about my own writing and my love of music. Granted that many times there was a distinct lack of copy-editing, but that’s how it goes when you’re a bored and overeducated college student. But each of these essays was intended to be short and sweet, like a treat, with a little bonus to boot: a download link. There was never any intention to impress and the fact that you all were so complimentary and helpful to the whole process made it that much more worth it. So An Album A Day Keeps Death at Bay will live on in various permutations until I get officially cracking on the rebuild. Until then, it’s all quiet on the Western front.
You’ve all been stellar and as influential as I could hope this blog has been for all of you, and it’s not like I’ve gone away entirely. Again, check out my main blog Neighborhood Threat which will offer a lot of the same content you can find here, interspersed with other Tumblr-friendly links, images, words, and fodder. As always, the archive for An Album A Day will remain but there will be no new content until the rebuild.
Thanks for an interesting a positive experience over the last year and I’m sure I’ll see you all around the ‘Net,
-Max
P.S. You can still contact me thru the email for this blog here if you have any comments/requests/just wanna chat, and you can also hit me up/add me on Twitter and via the Facebook Fan Page. -M
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