Farewell from Viva La Mainstream!

My loyal readers,

Yes, that time has come. If you hadn’t figured out from the month-long absence of bloggery on this site, I’ve been doing some thinking about the future of VLM, and myself as a writer. And after some careful thought and reflection on why I write and what VLM means to me, I’ve decided that it’s time to move on to something new.

The post you’re reading right now will the be the final one on Viva La Mainstream! But before you break out the Kleenex and wonder what you’ll read in its absence, I’m happy to tell you that a new music blog will be taking VLM’s place very soon. As I was taking time off to consider why I blogged and what I liked about it, I realized it was the demand for consistency, the perpetual search for something new while at the same time reflecting on what came before it, I realized that I enjoyed working on VLM the most during that (admittedly tiring) year when I tried to write about one album every day. So, it’s back.

Starting this Sunday, May 15, you can find me blogging away once more at One Album, One Day. Those of you who were fans of the Album A Day project will be pleased, for this new blog is an ongoing extension of that (It’s The Next Generation to the 2009 project’s Original Series, if you will). It is my sincere hope that all of you reading this right now will join my continued adventures there starting next week.

To everyone who inspired me to write about music, both the bands and the fellow bloggers whom I looked at and said, “hey, I can do that!”, to the fine folks at the PR companies who kept feeding new material, to anyone has read, commented on, or otherwise engaged with  VLM in all its incarnations over the last 4 years, I cannot thank you enough. You took a college freshman in need of a hobby and helped show him that he could, in fact, write worth a damn (even though he stubbornly chose not to sometimes) and helped lead him on a path he never would have seen coming. I hope to hear from you all over at OAOD, and of course there’s always Twitter (be advised: as of tonight my new user handle will be TJtheHeadphoned) and the Facebook page (which will remain up for a limited time: One Album, One Day’s Facebook page is here).

So fuck it, you guys want one more song, right? Here you go!

The Beatles – The End [iTunes]

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