Weekly Site Review: Fingertips
Music criticism. Who needs it? This is what Fingertips is all about. It’s also about providing some of the best free and legal music on the internet. The site is like a lo-fi internet radio show where the DJ is intelligent and he never criticizes anything, only playing amazing music that you immediately download after hearing and/or reading about the track. The guy who runs the site has incredible taste in music and has created a huge archive of free work. He only posts three times a week with three songs since he feels his time should be spent elsewhere. The editor of Fingertips sincerely believes that music criticism is a waste of time and energy and that if it’s not something you like, you shouldn’t listen to it.
I almost agree with him — I’ve been too caught up in music criticism before but I’m not sure of his stance on its absolute irrelevance. Which is fine, we’re all definitely entitled to our own opinions and even the suppression of them in his case. Fingertips brings up such interesting points about the way people find out about music; it’s passionate in its stance against music criticism. Though possibly too extreme, it’s a wonderful sanctuary away from the elitism in music journalism and a great place to find some free and legal tracks.
