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please suggest the most interesting and/or informative music blogs out there. I know alot of you guys have great ones. I've been reading through The church of me (cookham.blogspot.com) and it's fantastic. any more? thanks

― just some guy, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't read it lately, but "Oh, Manchester, so much to answer for" (if I remember the name correctly) was triff. Sorry I don't remember the URL offhand.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://djmartian.blogspot.com/

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://newflux.blogspot.com

― tt, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://blog.largeheartedboy.com/

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.coolfer.com/blog/
http://tofuhut.blogspot.com/
http://www.fatplanet.com.au/

― Avi (Avi), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

clap clap

― Sean M (Sean M), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Plug your Blog

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://governmentnames.blogspot.com/ is great.

My group blog http://manyshrimp.blogspot.com/ owes it many debts.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

this one sucks the big one : http://ireallylovemusic.blogspot.com

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

discovered Kyle Gann's blog yesterday and have been pouring through the archives

http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Two of my favorites are:

Flaskaland
Rockcriticsdaily

― JC-L (JC-L), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

No Rock & Roll Fun
Popjustice
#1 Songs In Heaven

― Acme (acme), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

http://squeezyboy.blogs.com/

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

cool--I like that devil's accordion.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

Jazz/improv blogs -- seemingly a lot more than a couple of years ago, including:

Stochasticus
Not Mean If True
Brilliant Corners
Bagatellen (kinda slow these days)
be.jazz
Destination: Out (with MP3s)

― mark 0, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

...and Just Outside

― mark 0, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

My current fav is Idolator. They're pretty funny (as far as music blogs go) and have some good features like the occasional column by an anonymous industry lawyer, or when they call out Stereogum for sucking these days.

But I still check Stereogum anyway. Matos' column on bands with day jobs is usually the highlight for me.

BrooklynVegan is pretty solid.

And Largehearted Boy does a good daily round-up of industry/band articles.

― Bus Driver Stu, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

Honestly, it's only sporadically about music, but mine, course

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

Matos' column on bands with day jobs is usually the highlight for me.

that's not matos -- that's brandon stosuy. matos writes project x for idolator.

(but thanks for the compliment! it's much appreciated.)

― maura, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

BrooklynVegan is pretty solid.

http://bushwhacked.net/bits/ROFL.jpg

― artdamages, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.blogspot.com/
http://fluokids.blogspot.com/
http://www.nahright.com/
http://discobelle.net/

― daria-g, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 03:48 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, whoops. But yeah, really great feature. The Dungen guy came off as a weirdo in the last one though.

― Bus Driver Stu, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 08:09 (eighteen years ago)

Wayne Marshall's blog http://wayneandwax.com/

Jace DJ Rupture Clayton's blog http://www.negrophonic.com/

Latin music blog http://laondatropical.blogspot.com/

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

second: 20 jazz funk greats. it's the only one i regularly read.

― poortheatre, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

the tracks on littlewhitearbuds are pretty much the only tracks i regularly want.

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Use this thread to bring to our attention great writing on music. Here's one that deserves a lot more attention:

The Celestial Monochord. This guy is great. Does cultural-historical investigations into stuff vaguely related to the Anthology of American Folk Music and all things Dylan. It's worth digging deep into the archives and reading it all.

― staggerlee, Friday, 24 October 2008 02:51 (seventeen years ago)

^Damn, I wish I could edit posts. Ignore the imperative first sentence above; it was meant for somewhere else.

While I'm here again, let me point you to 5 Bucks on By-Tor, chronicling constant listening to the almost-unheard, the always-ignored, the has-beens, the never-wases, the couldn't-have-beens and other relics of the vinyl era in Canada. Where else are you going to find tracks by Thorsby, Alberta's Bob Ruzicka?

As a casual collector of weird, under-the-radar Canadian vinyl myself, something I really appreciate is Levitt's tolerance for musical genres outside the rock-country-folk axis. (A tolerance I lack. A lot.) He's a generous listener and a good writer, and if there's a blog heaven he's assured a place in it.

― staggerlee, Friday, 24 October 2008 02:58 (seventeen years ago)

nine months pass...

Hey guyz Metafilter linked this and it's pretty frickin' sweet.

― Calamari Merkin (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 August 2009 15:49 (sixteen years ago)

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