Favorite Places for Music Reviews Online (where you aren't a writer)?

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Sorry if this has been asked - but I'm interested in knowing what your favorite places to go for reviews are other than places you write for yourself.

Me:
Popmatters
Metacritic
NME (of course)

― Bill Aicher, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Freaky Trigger.

Sha!zam.

― dwh (dwh), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Pitchf... oh, wait - never mind.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

amg, popmatters, nude as the news, leonard's lair, mark prindle

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The Major Fall, The Minor Lift and Church of Me.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i judge music reviews by how much they like my band, so i'm probably not the best judge, either...

― kate, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

here

― DZ (doorag), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

& mark prindle

― (doorag), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

dusted
aquariusrecords.org
forced exposure
prl
amg

― gygax!, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Totally agree on aquarius' newsletter. It's one of the few publications that consistently makes me buy things.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.dustedmagazine.com is shocking the world.

― Winslow (winslow), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Downtown Music Gallery's newsletter is very good for avant-jazz, prog, contemporary classical, downtown, and general improv weirdness.

They have a bunch of past editions at www.dtmgallery.com

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I admit it- I always look at Pitchfork's reviews, even if they are often problematic. The recent batch of reviewers are pretty awful, but there are some reliable critics who make valid points whether or not I agree with them (Mark, Dominique, Matt Lemay, Christopher Dare, Paul Cooper). I don't think Pitchfork is as demonic as it is made out to be.
I also check tapefuzz (where I found one of the only negative reviews of Geogaddi!), tinymixtapes, nude as the news and amg regularly. And Metacritic is a convenient source.

― lou, Thursday, 12 December 2002 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Splendid

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 12 December 2002 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i used to really like The Onion AV Club but they've gotten blander and blander. but i still check it.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 12 December 2002 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i used to really like The Onion AV Club but they've gotten blander and blander

They are getting a little safer/less inspired. But their interviews are absolutely fantastic. I'm glad they finally published a book.

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Thursday, 12 December 2002 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

10 not mentioned so far:

electronic music: Absorb

each friday: Almost Cool

updated ongoing: BBCi Music

each monday: Brainwashed Brain

each month: FakeJazz

new review each day: Junkmedia

each month: themilkfactory.co.uk

ongoing: Musique Machine

ongoing: Sonumu

each day: Stylus

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 12 December 2002 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

two more: delusions of adequacy (weekly on mondays, indie) and perfect sound forever (every two months, experimental and challenging music)

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 12 December 2002 07:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Spizzazz and Church of Me I probably look at every day. The Village Voice (even before it became New New ILM). Most of my other daily reads don't really do 'reviews'.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 12 December 2002 08:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Like a donkey eating figs I just consumed all of Philip Sherburne's Needle Drops columns on Neumu. Now I am a fat, happy donkey dropping figgy turds in my field.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 12 December 2002 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Harumph, I meant Neumu.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 12 December 2002 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

revive:
surely there are more out there now?

other threads are focused on "the best/worst" or upcoming release info--are there any new review sites that have gotten your attention?

― patita (patita), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

absorb is defunct, but http://www.failme.net/ is a nice replacement from the same guy.

http://www.textura.org/ is reliably good.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-25-best-music-websites-1803346.html

kanye ?

― mark e, Friday, 16 October 2009 09:03 (fifteen years ago)

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