One Woman's Adventure With Her Hubby's Vinyl Collection

Sarah getting psyched for some 80's thrash

Today I am featuring a blog called "My Husband's Stupid Record Collection" that I've been observing over the past week or so.  The blog is ran by Sarah O'Holla who enjoys writing and is married to a guy who has something around 1500 LP's that she plans to dig through, reviewing each one over time.

As someone who within the past few years has gradually gotten more and more into reviewing records again I have a specific appreciation for this blog.  O'Holla doesn't pretend to know more than she does and she's absolutely fine with making that apparent.  She's not one of these high and mighty critic types that write for Pitchfork or wherever that almost seem like their prime objective is to make themselves appear to be brainiacs instead of conveying a critique of a record in a manner that you can identify with.  O'Holla's methods are almost the exact opposite while thriving on a stream-of-consciousness approach (I try to be somewhere in the middle with an added touch of being a smart-ass myself),

Though due to the fact that she presents herself as fairly uneducated on music (at least in accordance to her husband's fairly eclectic collection that she's unveiled thus far) and is a lady educating herself on something more of interest of her man she has been getting a bit of slack for supposedly perpetuating gender stereotypes.  And I'm not going to lie: it does fall heavily on a specific gender stereotype of the woman and her music nerd duder.

But why does it have to be like that?!  This is a human being wanting to explore a lover's passion as it seems to be something of definite interest.  And to take this task and wittily write about it on a thoroughly entertaining blog, giving us reviews in a perspective that NO rock critic has the balls (is that a pun?  Sort of maybe?) to give...well, I'm sorry but that's just genius.  Furthermore, fuck you for over-thinking it.

If you are a fan of music journalism but are tired of the standard high-brow execution or just think observing music in a different light sounds fun then you need to check this out.  Easily my fave blog to pop up this year thus far.

In case you missed it before, here's another link to the blog.