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Hi, which blogs do you always read? I'm kind of new to the whole thing, mostly looking for non-rock stuff..

Any really good hiphop-writing, for example?
Best danceblogs?

etc..

― jaheim hoagland, Monday, 20 October 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

go somewhere like nylpm or blissblog and just follow follow follow the links

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 20 October 2003 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Good on hip-hop: Spizzazz

Good on dance music: Skykicking, Tufluv

Good on both: Blissblog, Technicolour

...and lots of others. It struck me the other day how at least half and probably more of the new music blogs I see are concerned mostly with electronic stuff or hip-hop, a far cry from a couple of years ago.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 20 October 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

the best blog is a dead blog...

― s tremaine, Monday, 20 October 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

oh dear oh der oh dear *raises eyes to heaven in mock surprise*

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 20 October 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

camp ain't yer thing.

i enjoy *dead* websites. sorry it's my fetish. 'LAST UPDATED IN JANUARY 1997' - more fun than a live one.

― s tremaine, Monday, 20 October 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

1997 probably a good place to start for the music you like too

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

now now ronan don't make me link up all yer 'ryan adams' post now...

― s tremaine, Monday, 20 October 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

oooh! get him! zing!

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

link away! it's certainly funnier than your tedious hack show.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I always read Simple Pleasures, but then I do write it. (Was that shameless enough?)

Also Popjustice is hilarious.

― Nick H, Monday, 20 October 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha!

Oooo... *insert appropriate crowd noises*

I'm interviewing the Zutons tonight - any words of advice? Like what *not* to do. Oooo...

― s tremaine, Monday, 20 October 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

it's gonna be big baby, like huge!! this is serious stuff!!

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I advise you not to write it up.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Oooo ... meow!

You are so sassy! Why? Should I save it for the twenty people who buy 'Hot Press'?

Oooo...

― s tremaine, Monday, 20 October 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. You'd fit right in there. You can't write and you have no sense of humour.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Oooo... can't write ... oooo ... that's not writing that's typing... ooo... scary! Ooo... maybe i should just stop now ...

― s tremaine, Monday, 20 October 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe i should write to my three editors and say: listen dudes, ronan is right, i can't do anything about it but i just can't write. please contact ronan when you need anything... Ooooo...

― s tremaine, Monday, 20 October 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Please don't, I don't want to have to listen to crap records.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

let's see doomie do a blog !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

my blog would be self-reverential and well, psychotic! hahah.

― s tremaine, Monday, 20 October 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

well, my blog is pretty dead and i am decidedly not being camp... just... and ronan, you've made it a pleasure to be back again! sonny, editors rarely care whether you can write or not. it's more important that they just know you...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

my blog would well-hated by ilx. i'm not exactly talking myself out of this am I?

― s tremaine, Monday, 20 October 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/furniture/in_depth/motorsport/2001/formula_one/verstappen.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

it would only be hated by ilx because you would want it to be hated by ilx and i don't think everyone here has the same opinions abt what good music or good writing is...i would however venture to say that the zutons are not universally considered fabulous though.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm a retro freak, dave. can't help it. i'm also reviewing the animal collective this wednesday..

― s tremaine, Monday, 20 October 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i collect soft-pop fer chrissakes...! hahaha..

― s tremaine, Monday, 20 October 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

meaning, obviously, there are retro-freaks out there, not keen on the retro-nazis, who get physically upset when i criticise the beatles for being rubbish but whatcanyoudo?

― s tremaine, Monday, 20 October 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, good god almighty... the beatles weren't rubbish... that's one of the silliest things i've ever heard

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean i'm not a fan but objectively (or as objective as anyone can be about music, which isn't very, admittedly) saying they were rubbish is crazy talk

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

the beatles were rubbish and should have stopped after '65 - their zenith really. the byrds piss over all their back catalogue - the beatles just had better press for their rubbish songs. hell, the rutles are better than the beatles, anyday.

― s tremaine, Monday, 20 October 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"Piggy In The Middle" is hardly better than "I Am The Walrus". "10538 Overture" is, however.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Monday, 20 October 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Conversely, Keynsham is considerably better than Abbey Road.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 20 October 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

the thing is, the rutles, they meant it maaaaaaaan. the beatles, never did.

― s tremaine, Monday, 20 October 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

don't make me start singing 'the meatmen' - 'one down three to go' or recant my ringo starr's daughter/ian mcnabb story! you've been forewarned.

― s tremaine, Monday, 20 October 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

recant - you mean that wasn't true?

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 20 October 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

hiphopmusic.com

― D Aziz (esquire1983), Monday, 20 October 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Kingblind is pretty good

http://www.kingblind.com/

― yaeger, Monday, 20 October 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

matthew ingram's "naughty bit of a crap" is the best blog i've ever seen. i don't even know if you could rightly call it a blog.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The best music blog that I am aware of (and I'm aware of quite a few, check my links section if you don't believe me) is by some distance Clap Clap Blog.

Other notable blogs - Jody Beth Rosen's Freezing To Death, though she doesn't write much about music anymore. Paul Cox/Courtney Owens/Martin Pavlinic's God's Audio/Visual Aid. Thomas Inskeep's Oh Manchester. Joe Macare's The New Hip Hop, Political Correctness Trend. Sasha Frere-Jone's SF/J. Chris Conroy's Do You Feel Loved? Badger Minor. Waking Ear. Erik's Trip. Damaged In Transit. Technicolor. The music content on Big Sunny D usually is very nice.

I value enthusiasm over faux-academia in my blogging tastes.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I must put in a word for Hipster Detritus if we're talking about enthusiasm, because Nate just clearly fucking loves music so much it's almost unnerving. GREAT stuff.

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Does Stelfox have a blog? I'd buy that for a dollar.

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit, a simple Google has answered that question for me. Sorry.

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh fuck! I forgot about Nate and Hipster Detritus. I promise you, I meant to put that one too!

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

A Patrin scorned...

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks everyone! I like tufluv and the hipster detrius-guy most, so far.

― jaheim hoagland, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

oh snap, I'm unnerving! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED (yet I am going to keep maintaining ~~soldiers~~ writing in ~~Iraq~~ my blog for the forseeable future)

Note to self: stop with the "Nate makes a list of favorite songs and it will be super aweso- oh wait, he doesn't have time anymore, and he got a new idea, sorry" arglebargle

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I read nf.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, that was "the hipster-detritus guy"! It's like Hollywood in here today!

*swoons*

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I am a Hollywood freak on the Hollywood scene

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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