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TBTMTU: Shame-Free

News Type: Other — Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:58 AM EDT

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Snarky, *usually* up-to-date, smart-ass music news. If you are looking for pop princesses or flash-in-the-pan rappers, you have the wrong site my dear. reads Shame-Free's header, and it delivers what it promises.

Focusing less on the indie and more on the hard-rocking, Shame-Free is a music awareness blog rather than a straight up mp3 blog. Shame-Free does not put up any songs to download, it will however link to a band's page or Myspace where you can listen to a song. Shame-Free scours the internet music scene reading articles from all the big name music publications and even local music reviews and news from various cities. One look at one of Shame-Free's "Link it like you mean it" posts, which rounds up links to recent music news, and you'll realize just how much content Shame-Free's author must intake every week.
Content on Shame-Free is arranged in standard archive form (month by month) and through an extensive tagging system which works nicely. Just click on the name of your favourite artist and any post which mentions that artist will come up.

Unfortunately, Shame-Free's "smart-ass" commentary on music and music news is just that, smart-ass. Assuming that you could keep up with as much news as this author does, Shame-Free would be rendered useless. On top of that, the site itself is not the prettiest thing under the sun, in fact Shame-Free is so devoid of any kind of light if the blog were physical it would be a vampire's dream lair.
One other thing that bothers me about Shame-Free is the way the author provides links to content, choosing to use the word "Link" for every link gets out of hand, not to mention monotonous very quickly.

Bottom line:

If you want to be up to date on the happenings around the (non-indie heavier side of the) music scene, but don't want to have to actually search for that news, bookmark, subscribe to the RSS feed, or do anything else you need to do to get all up on the Shame-Free.
If you feel like you can handle enough news as it is about music and just want some sweet beats to listen to, don't bother with Shame-Free.

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Eric Atienza

The first post on the site right now is about Rock of Love 2. Let's all think about that for a moment.

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Reply#1 - Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:20 AM EDT
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kymlee

Hmmm...(ponders)...sometimes you just gotta write about buzz...It is after all called Shame Free. ;)

I read a few of their posts though and liked the snarky reviews.

One other thing that bothers me about Shame-Free is the way the author provides links to content, choosing to use the word "Link" for every link gets out of hand, not to mention monotonous very quickly.

Not to mention lacking creativity.

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#1.1 - Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:06 PM EDT
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Jacob Nicolas

The author of Shame-Free has read the review.

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Reply#2 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:14 AM EDT
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kymlee

Cool beans! Isn't it great when people respond to your reviews? :)

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#2.1 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:31 AM EDT
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spiffie

And Eric got called out, too.

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#2.2 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:34 AM EDT
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Jacob Nicolas
Cool beans! Isn't it great when people respond to your reviews? :)

It's fun when people respond to my reviews and enjoy them.

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#2.3 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:37 AM EDT
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Eric Atienza

Pfft. If Rock of Love 2 did not exist, that post would not exist. Whether he thought that guy looked like someone else or not, the post was about him watching Rock of Love 2.

Let's all think about that for a moment...

=p

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#2.4 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:34 AM EDT
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kymlee

Hey I watched a few episodes of Rock of Love 2...and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I also watched Flavor of Love (1 & 2) and I <3 New York, I watch the Bachelor (that one I am kind of ashamed to admit) and a bunch of other reality TV shows. It's junk food for the brain. ;)

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#2.5 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:34 PM EDT
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