What is a useful alternative to Pitchfork?

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where else can i find a large resource of music review and recommendations?

the muffin man, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

The Internet.

Alex in SF, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

internets

Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

haha

Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

you can earn more about music from ILM than you will from Pitchfork.

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

That one guy who stands at the back of every gig with a notepad.

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.rollingstone.com

max, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

There was this one site that handled all music, but I forget what it was called.

StanM, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

gah "learn" not "earn"

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

gah "learn" not "earn"

Shakey Mo Collier on Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:56


Ha, I showed up here a year ago all "This'll be a great resource for me in my burgeoning career as a critic!"

Haven't written a review in a year, but I'm on here every fuckin day.

[/bitter laugh]

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

i guess it's a good addiction ; ) it's true, you do learn a lot from ILM, probably more valuable than any one news site. more distributed views, lots of different topics.

Surmounter, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

I find the idea of a "large resource of recommendations" mind-boggling.

Here's 27,437 albums you simply must have!

Erroneous Botch, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

here is a good place to start: http://ilx.thehold.net/thread.php?msgid=107974#unread

pretzel walrus, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

ilm is a lot like pitchfork, except way more sarcastic, less easy to read, less influential and makes less money.

max, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

...but it has (sometimes) various opinions on the same record,big diffrence

Zeno, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

I find the idea of a "large resource of recommendations" mind-boggling.

Here's 27,437 albums you simply must have!

Erroneous Botch on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 3:59 PM


Well I wasn't looking at it as "Hey cool, a bunch of people to tell what to buy!" It was more like "Hey! Music geeks like me! They think about this shit as much as I do, and they've heard stuff I haven't! Awesome!"

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

pretzel walrus 8080

ghost rider, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

look, the main virtue of ILM is that its appeal and participants are varied enough that you can find someone here with fairly wide-ranging and authoritative knowledge on any subject, artist, or genre you could think of.

I don't think you can say that about Pitchfork. Although they try.

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

I mean if yr curious about something and want more info, start a thread about it and ask - guaranteed SOMEONE will have something helpful to say.

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

shakey otm

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

guaranteed someone will have something snarky to say

lfam, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

that's what makes it ilm

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

"i love i love music"

Zeno, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

guaranteed someone will have something snarky to say

haha yeah that too

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

what I mostly use p4k for is digging through its archives and pulling out reviews from long ago

the muffin man, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

Stylus Magazine is good...Pop Matters is o.k...both are online resources.

venimdenim, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

1. google.

Ex.

search: "the ruts"

result: http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/ruts.htm

or 2. ILM search.
search: "music review"

Russian/Easter European folk music

mox twelve, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

what I mostly use p4k ilm for is digging through its archives and pulling out reviews threads from long ago

the muffin man on Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:49

also snark.

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 29 March 2007 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

srsly like this thread is why i come here.

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 29 March 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

I always read Foxy Digitalis. A great place for psych/noise/etc stuff.

Drooone, Thursday, 29 March 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

I find the Aquarius Records New Arrivals listing about as helpful as anything else, and I like to step into a universe where everyone is breathlessly awaiting the newest field recording of giraffes eating frogs. Aquariusrecords.org.

dlp9001, Thursday, 29 March 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

Go to DJ Martian's page and look around at all the links.

Michael F Gill, Thursday, 29 March 2007 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

I've learned more about great music here than just about any other website.

Thanks pals.

Brooker Buckingham, Thursday, 29 March 2007 02:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.tridentmedia.net/

Hurting 2, Thursday, 29 March 2007 03:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bankruptcylitigationblog.com/blogosphere.jpg

the table is the table, Thursday, 29 March 2007 03:12 (eighteen years ago)

you can earn more about music from ILM than you will from Pitchfork.

Maybe. You can learn a lot of stuff here, but you can also risk "learning" weird ideas such as teenybopper pop and current mainstream R&B is good when the truth is it isn't.

Geir Hongro, Thursday, 29 March 2007 07:32 (eighteen years ago)

or you can learn some absurd set of rules for music appreciation

lfam, Thursday, 29 March 2007 07:59 (eighteen years ago)

Just imagine, there's a site out there somewhere where everyone says stuff exactly like Geir and it's all taken completely seriously.

mh, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

Musique Machine
http://www.musiquemachine.com/

djmartian, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

rockist.com, you mean?

Neil S, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

x-post!

Neil S, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Dusted Magazine
Stylus Magazine
Brainwashed
Popmatters
Drowned In Sound
Almost Cool

super sleuth, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://themot.org/gallery/d/2142-1/riffraff.jpg

the table is the table, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

MY LIFE MY RULES OK?

the table is the table, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

www.staticmultimedia.com

Beatrix Kiddo, Friday, 30 March 2007 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

I have to admit, I do use Coke Machine Glow a lot as well.

the muffin man, Friday, 30 March 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

Cokemachineglow is fairly horrendous.
The first paragraph of this lambchop review is very hugely awful. It neatly demonstrates why this website is so shitty.

Drooone, Friday, 30 March 2007 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

Thats pretty bad

the muffin man, Friday, 30 March 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

pantha du prince review

a contender for worst music crit '07

lucas pine, Friday, 30 March 2007 03:43 (eighteen years ago)

lolz. what a load of prententious bullshit

good dog, Friday, 30 March 2007 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

8==m==D~~ ~~

Drooone, Friday, 30 March 2007 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

The first paragraph of this lambchop review is very hugely awful. It neatly demonstrates why this website is so shitty.

Dumbass spelled "Macallan" wrong!

novaheat, Friday, 30 March 2007 05:51 (eighteen years ago)


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