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Right now, the (newly independent) annual Best Music Writing series of books is looking for nominations of music writing from 2011. If you read this blog, you probably read a lot of music articles this year, because I linked to 8 pieces of music writing a week in my ‘Music Dump’ series on the Vine. So if some of these really did it for you, nominate!

(I also wrote some things if you want to nominate them).

I can never think of anything when nominations time comes round! TBH “my Tumblr dashboard” has been my Best Music Reading this year, as last year, and selecting individual bits would be missing the point. (But I know there were great solo pieces and will try & think of them)

Signal boost.

(Also signal boosting: if you haven’t donated yet, do!)

Some stuff I nominated:

(1) MY SHIT (Being Rebecca Black and the whole TSJ thread for Warren G & Nate Dogg’s “Regulate” entry)

(2) Erika Villani on Fleetwood Mac fandom and Britney Spears

(3) Isabel on Liz Phair

(4) Barthel on Miley, though I contemplated singling out one of his Courtney Love essays (might go back and re-nom; you can nominate multiple times!)

(5) Billboard’s Bill Werde on why it’s cool that they counted Born This Way as business-as-usual (h/t Matos) [more instructive in its way than lots of wonky posts on the new music media landscape — and one of the few big articles I saw by an actual major player in the debate, not just a commentator, that was genuinely well-written]

(6) Adam Cadre on 22 albums by Sparks

(7) Julianne Escobedo Shepherd on Odd Future

(8) Alex Macpherson on Odd Future (sort of)

(9) Mark Sinker on Whitney Houston

(10) Eric Harvey on Steve Jobs

(11) Michelle Myers on Azealia Banks

What’d I miss?

I need to go through and find a bunch of stuff to nominate, because I know a lot of really great writers, but maybe someone will be so moved to nominate something I wrote? I mean, I didn’t do a ton of stuff in 2011, but I was pretty happy with this R.E.M. essay and this EMA review, and, oh right, the 16,000 words I did on Underworld. And anything here, of course. So if anyone feels so moved by this shameless self-promotion to nominate me, well, you’re just the best as far as I’m concerned.

But everyone should vote, in any case.