Mission Statement

Welcome to Yelling About Music, the collaborative music blog of the Questionable Content music forum.

Why collaborative? Because as much as I would like to write about music five days a week, I strongly suspect that I would not be able to maintain that schedule myself. Also because there are some damned fine music writers on the QC boards, and I think their opinions would be a nice contrast to my own. Also, because more writers = more content, and content is a good thing.

The mission of this blog is simply to talk about music. Record reviews, live shows, reminiscences of classic bands and jumping on the latest Hot Leaked Releases from the steamy bowels of the internet. My goal is to edit as little as possible- I want the folks writing on it with me to bring their own interests, vision, and talents to the table, and I'll try to do the same. On my end, I'll probably be focusing primarily on new music, but I have no doubt nostalgia will get the better of me one day and generate a 1,500 word love letter to the mid-90's Champaign, IL music scene.

People will post stuff as they feel like it. I strongly encourage use of the RSS feeds, as until/unless we arrive on some regular schedule that will be the easiest way to keep track of articles as they go up. When talking about albums that aren't "officially" out yet but can be found on the Internets, we'll put an asterisk in the title of the post. You may see reviews of the same album or band by multiple writers- I think that could be an interesting way of approaching music. You may see thoughtful, well-considered pieces comparing a band's current release to its past work and the environment from whence it came. You may see horribly-misspelled drunken post-show text ejaculations ('OMG U GUYZ TEH HOLD STEDY R SO GOOD LIVE AND I AM SO DRUKN RIGHT NOEW'). There won't be any silly number or star rating system or whatever. There are plenty of other music review sites that do that already. You can find some of them on the sidebar immediately to the right of this post. We're not gonna enable comments on the blog. That's what the message board is for.

Anyway, welcome. I hope you enjoy it.