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
Monday, November 16 2009
What’s More Dangerous on the Web -- Hackers or Hacks?
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.
Monday, October 19 2009
Nobody Puts Twitter in a Curation Corner
Twitter has fast become a land of curators. But where does curation go from here, and do we really want it to go there?
Monday, August 31 2009
The (Indie) Music Industry Is All Right
The media is too preoccupied with the funeral arrangements of the mainstream music industry to celebrate the life that is happening elsewhere.
Monday, July 27 2009
Teens Don’t Use Twitter (and Why Should They?)
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.
Monday, June 15 2009
Surfing Alone: Is Digital Technology Destroying Relationships?
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.
Reviews
Tuesday, September 8 2009
The Pretenders + Cat Power + Juliette Lewis: 11 August 2009 - New York
A powerful trio of female singers created three distinct atmospheres on a hot, humid evening in Central Park.
Monday, August 17 2009
Kill The Record Labels
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.
Thursday, June 25 2009
Love Will Tear Us Apart by Sarah Rainone
Weddings render even the most peripheral guest nostalgic, but Rainone takes this truth and pushes it to its limits.
Wednesday, May 27 2009
Cat Power: A Good Woman by Elizabeth Goodman
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.
Blogs
Tuesday, August 25 2009
Alela Diane: 14 August 2009 - Union Hall, Brooklyn
Three unique women vocalists from Australia, Oregon and Brooklyn carried a night of modern folk music that, as the headlining Alela Diane put it, made sense together.
