This presupposes, though, that a lot of people feel they have a problem finding enough new music. The undemocratic music geek in me is compelled to cite the huge numbers of people let's just call them "the mainstream" who do not worry about this, who like what they like and/or hear enough new stuff through happenstance. Anuff is counting on the music-obsessed to help CM take off.
"I am sure there are at least 5 million music heads in this country who consider music a food group," he says. He may be sweetly deluded. Or he may be on to something scalable, something that, like Metacritic, can be broadened to other media areas movies, video games, and books.
CM charts a new path toward a very old notion: that what experts have to say is worth hearing. In this arena, as a card-carrying member of the my-musical-taste-can-beat-up-your-musical-taste club, I agree. Now all Anuff needs is the other 4,999,998 of us.
If they're there.
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