Abe & Mo Sing the Blogs
Abe and Mo Sing the Blogs is a concept album composed and performed by Marisa Olson and Abe Linkoln in which the lyrics of the songs are taken directly from the artists' favorite blog posts. In addition to engaging with meme culture as musical content, the album is presented as a form of reblog, linking to the original posts, which inserts the work into circulation as a meme itself.
Blogs, like the Blues, have been credited with channeling "the voice of the people," but do blogs adhere to any one set of characteristics that defines them as a genre? And how might blogs be understood as public spaces, in light of the time-based performances that take place there?
Selecting the postings that comprise the greatest "hits" of some of their favorite blogs, Abe Linkoln & Marisa Olson "sing the blogs" in order to address these questions. While Linkoln's posts speak to musical genres at large, Olson's posts seek to find harmony with specific models. Both question the status of the author's voice...
The whole "album" is presented as a form of reblog, in an effort to self-reflexively dive into the meme culture that is its subject. The artists' blog gets situated as the site of a happening.