The Last Days of The Last Days of Man on Earth.

I mean, where else on the internet are we gonna go to find pictures of Pittsburgh band
Real Enemy drinking beer outside a grocery store in 1983…?

Bit late posting about this, but I was sad to discover this week that one of my favourite music weblogs, Joe Stumble’s Last Days of Man on Earth, has decided to call it a day.

To rehash what I said in the comments on his goodbye post, ‘Last Days’ has pointed me in the direction of a vast amount of good stuff over the past few years, be it punk, hardcore, new wave, early hip-hop or miscellaneous art-rock weirdness, and I’ll really miss it.

As well as the music, I’ll particularly miss Joe S’s sharp commentary, assorted historical delving and scene-setting etc. It seems like my favourite music blogs are dropping like flies and the moment, and with so many others around that just throw up a mediafire link, say “yea, cool shit, check it out” and call it a day or else just recycle press releases, decent writing, opinions and compiling of info on marginal music like this is always, always, always appreciated.

So if anyone knows any sites I might be missing out on that broadly cover the various kinds of music I like mouthing off about here (or not) and feature actual content rather than just functioning as glorified press services for careerist indie PR crap… well now’s the time to point me in the right direction.

Sorry, that got a bit ranty, didn't it? Apologies.

Anyway, if you like music and cool stuff from the punk/new wave era, I recommend hitting the archives of ‘Last Days..’ and filling your cup whilst the site is still functioning.

Labels: bad news, punk, ranting