The gang show

It's an increasingly cold world out there - when even the Independent and the Daily Mail are having to share the same toilets, what hope is there for independent bloggers? Hence, perhaps, the thinking behind MBV, a kind of United Artists of music bloggers, featuring Fluxblog, Largehearted Boy, Chromewaves, Said The Gramophone and others in a mix of feeds-and-unique content.

I'd just like to stress that No Rock is running around, screaming "the primo cartel will crush us" and plans, later this week, for us to announce a content-sharing merger deal with Courtney Love's MySpace blog, any vaguely music-related threads from the Points Of View message board and George Orwell's 1938 diary have long been in procession, and aren't just a panicky response to this new force in bloggery.