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)

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

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― the table is the table, Friday, 30 March 2007 04:14 (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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