Keeping Tabs

 
I've been browsing both Issuu and Scribd, which, if you're not one of their 50 million readers, is a combination social networking and document publishing website. The popularity of the two sites is sadly another nail in the coffin of traditional print. Because how can clunky backward old things like regular individual blogs such as mine ("In my day!"), newspapers and magazines expect to compete with millions of people sharing related information? There isn't really a greater resource than people pooling their individual knowledge on a topic. It's the way more things in media will be headed.

ANYWAY! How does this relate to music!? Well besides all the books, magazines and self-published articles (thus far a happy marriage between corporations and the rogue everyman nutbar) that you can virtually leaf-through, there are also DIY/alterna-culture elements that will surely disappear eventually, such as this one category of sheet music tablature. Here are the guitar tabs for the song Drive by The Cars! Or Evanescence if that's what you're into!!
Good luck with that.

So you could, hypothetically, think of a song, go to a community to find out how to play it, record it and then share it with the community thus inspiring someone else. Repeat, rinse.

Both Issuu and Scribd could stand to be a little more user friendly, and while nothing compares to a real glossy crunchy music rag putting papercuts in your hands, that's not going to stop me from checking out 'Subbacultcha' Magazine and its piece on my beloved Laibach.