![]() ![]() Bear has done both naturally for more than a decade. On the internet of today, editorial outlets hope to find a well-defined niche in order to attract a dedicated (even if small) audience. Through his site’s run, Cantalini has championed artists whose music moves him, like Canadian pop star Carly Rae Jepsen, or the experimental hip-hop duo Shabazz Palaces, or retro country Austin artist Molly Burch. Bear has always-and only-reflected its founder’s individual taste, which has traditionally leaned towards synth-driven pop experiments. ![]() While many peer blogs attempted to focus on wide-reaching genres, from indie to metal to hip-hop, and their respective waves of popularity, Gorilla vs. That’s in large part because of Gorilla vs. These realities existed even before the coronavirus shook every facet of the music industry to its core, particularly the future of live performance. And streaming service giants like Spotify put a good chunk of the industry’s back catalog on demand via a few clicks. What’s more, musicians now interact directly with fans on the likes of Instagram and TikTok, and high-profile acts interview each other in lieu of getting the traditional profile treatment by skeptical journalists. So has the music press: long-standing institutions (like the original Spin magazine) as well as smaller blogs, kept afloat as labors of love (from Tiny Mix Tapes to Hipster Runoff), have either downsized or shuttered amidst a shrinking journalism industry. Music has changed significantly since the rock revival of the early aughts, in ways beyond the fact that packed CD binders are no longer omnipresent in cars. I was just doing it to sort of archive and document new stuff I found on the internet being online all day.“ “So confidence didn’t really enter into it I didn’t have an expectation anyone would read it at the time. “I wasn’t aware of the broader blogosphere-I didn’t understand a bunch of people were doing this,” says Cantalini, founder of the longtime Dallas-based music blog Gorilla vs. One day in March 2005, he started a blog. There, he gained an appreciation for hip-hop-genre-bending stuff from acts like A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul-but after graduating from the University of Texas at Dallas in the early aughts, he found himself working at an insurance company and looking for something to ease the dullness of cubicle life. ![]() The Plano native didn’t grow up obsessed with music playing basketball in high school was his way in. Bear started because Chris Cantalini spent a lot of time on the internet at work. Like so many good ideas, the venerable music website Gorilla vs. ![]()
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