Perhaps you've heard that arts journalism is on its knees. Well, it is. At least, it is in most places. At a time of crisis in the industry, one space to have afforded the opportunity for exponential growth over the last decade is the domain of the YouTube vlogger. It is no less mercilessly competitive an arena than any other, but amid a cybersea of abandoned projects and unfollowed channels, one stubborn lighthouse beam of independent, yellow and black flannelled success guides the way.
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Anthony Fantano's The Needle Drop YouTube channel has over 2.2 million subscribers, all keen to watch one man sit before a camera and speak for five to fifteen minutes about a current album release. It is an almost unfeasibly simple concept, but it has led to Fantano becoming arguably the most famous music critic of the internet age, to the extent that his name began trending earlier this year when he dared to criticise Fiona Apple's latest record.
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The Connecticut native began working in college radio in the 2000s before launching his current channel in 2009. It's now home to an archive of 2000 album reviews. He deliberately tackles underground and mainstream artists alike, with some of his most notorious rave reviews being saved for records as non-two-million-subscribers-friendly as Death Grips' The Money Store, Swans' To Be Kind and Daughters' You Won't Get What You Want.
His impact on artists at nascent stages of their careers has been invaluable too; as an example, Scottish alt-hip-hop group and eventual Mercury Prize winners Young Fathers were reportedly signed to their first substantial record deal by Anticon off the back of a Needle Drop review of their self-released Tape One EP in January 2012.
Twitter's slander has no chill. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Popular music vlogger Anthony Fantano – best known for his YouTube channel The Needle Drop – has been accused of promoting alt-right sentiment on a separate, lesser-known channel.
For somebody with an almost unmatched archive of music opinions already stored online, streamlining music history into thirteen records was never going to be easy. As he says, “I could go into the past and dig up a bunch of albums that everybody already thinks are critically acclaimed, but that felt boring. Eventually I chose a bunch of records that in my teens or twenties meant a lot to me. Making the net any wider would have driven me insane.”
You can support the Need Drop and Anthony Fantano via his Patreon here. Click the image of Fantano below to begin reading his Baker's Dozen selections
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