Liz Colville

About Liz Colville

Liz Colville is a freelance writer and editor for publications including Spinner, Tiny Mix Tapes, Baeble Music, and the music blog Lizzyville. She has previously been a staff writer at Pitchfork and Stylus Magazine and was a founding employee at findingDulcinea, where she was a senior writer and social media coordinator. She lives in Brooklyn.

Columns

What’s More Dangerous on the Web—Hackers or Hacks?

By Liz Colville

Content producers have the power to be whomever they want, but if they let themselves be dictated too much by factors like Google, page views, and ad revenue, they end up simply joining a droning, mundane chorus of mediocrity. [16 November 2009]

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Nobody Puts Twitter in a Curation Corner

By Liz Colville

Twitter has fast become a land of curators. But where does curation go from here, and do we really want it to go there? [19 October 2009]

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The (Indie) Music Industry Is All Right

By Liz Colville

The media is too preoccupied with the funeral arrangements of the mainstream music industry to celebrate the life that is happening elsewhere. [31 August 2009]

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Teens Don’t Use Twitter (and Why Should They?)

By Liz Colville

Star intern Matthew Robson’s report on teen Internet use has one key takeaway: for teens, the Internet is fun, and that might be all that it is. [27 July 2009]

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Surfing Alone: Is Digital Technology Destroying Relationships?

By Liz Colville

On the Internet, we must continually ask ourselves what we are doing, to borrow Twitter's slogan, which sounds at turns like a taunt, a greeting, and an admonishment from God. [15 June 2009]

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Whither MySpace?

By Liz Colville

Like good nightclub promoters, MySpace sought out the ladies, then created an experience that everyone enjoyed. But is the party coming to an end? [18 May 2009]

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Human Optimization: ‘The New York Times’ Love Affair with Headlines

By Liz Colville

Search engine optimization (SEO) has sidled into the reading experience unbeknownst. [20 April 2009]

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Reviews

The Pretenders + Cat Power + Juliette Lewis: 11 August 2009 - New York

By Liz Colville

A powerful trio of female singers created three distinct atmospheres on a hot, humid evening in Central Park. [8 September 2009]

Kill The Record Labels

By Liz Colville

The words of people like DJ Lazy K, a grateful and hardworking mixtape creator, illustrate how well underground hip-hop is doing, if the RIAA would just leave them alone. [16 August 2009]

Love Will Tear Us Apart by Sarah Rainone

By Liz Colville

Weddings render even the most peripheral guest nostalgic, but Rainone takes this truth and pushes it to its limits. [24 June 2009]

Cat Power: A Good Woman by Elizabeth Goodman

By Liz Colville

Even at her worst, Cat Power is worthy of attention, a fact she has learned to respect. But it doesn't mean she wanted this book to be written. [27 May 2009]

Blogs

Notes from the Road: Alela Diane: 14 August 2009 - Union Hall, Brooklyn [25 August 2009]