album blogs you have loved

i lost my bookmarks in a computer mishap, so it seems like an appropriate time to canvas the ilm massive for their favorite blogs that post out of print or rare albums. i know there have been a few other threads, but i thought it'd be fun to start over.

for what it's worth i'm particular interested in genres such as:

- old-time country and folk
- prewar blues (and some immediate postwar stuff)
- african music (esp. ghana, kenya, congo)
- soul/r&b
- calypso and other caribbean
- new music/20th century
- people who share their rare 78s (not a genre, but you know)

the best such blogs have personality, a sense of style, and a sense of parsimony. make of that what you will. fire away.

is loronix still going

yes, loronix -- amazing blog.

- oh and soundtracks, e.g. by morricone and his italian colleagues

I guess it's a bit obvious for ppl here, but if you're into african music this is the shit

http://awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com/

lotsa good rare world/psych/etc. over here http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/

new music - http://closetcurios2.blogspot.com/
prewar blues - http://prewarblues.org/
brazil - http://www.sabadabada.com/music.htm
bossa, samba, soundtracks - http://quimsy.blogspot.com/

african - http://globalgroovers.blogspot.com/
new music - http://experimentaletc.blogspot.com/

http://fleamarketfunk.com/

For a VAST selection (all on the front pages) of late 70s/early-to-mid 80s soul/funk, disco, hi-NRG and Italo:

http://the-eternal-dance.blogspot.com/
http://the-eternal-dance2.blogspot.com/
http://the-eternal-dance3.blogspot.com/

Oooh thanx for that Mike!

Have you heard Side Effect: Goin' Bananas? Looks Kid Creole-ish even though their other albums don't.

And do you know if any of the Chilly albums feature tracks as scintillating as "For Your Love?"

Noteworthy on that first link: Two albums and two songs called "Something Special." And oh lordy: LaToya Jackson: My Country Collection

That's directed to Mike or anyone.

more suggestions...?

http://decrepittapes.blogspot.com/
http://www.funkmysoul.gr/
http://fleetwoodmacmusic.blogspot.com

bolachas.org

i really like http://zambonisoundtracks.blogspot.com/ ... it doesn't really have a theme to it, the guy just posts whatever he likes, but it's been great for new discoveries, and stuff that seems hard to find or underrated. there's also a lot of run of the mill kind of stuff you can find anywhere, but overall it's a pretty solid blog.

great idea for a thread, btw.

I have lots of these, I'll post them when I'm on my computer.

I grab everything from Mutant Sounds: http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/

also
http://systemsofromance.blogspot.com/
http://twilightzone-rideyourpony.blogspot.com/
http://tyme-machine.blogspot.com/
http://thirdfloormusic.blogspot.com/
http://433rpm.blogspot.com/
http://redtelephone66.blogspot.com/

yeah Mutant Sounds took it to a whole new level, their rips got better over time as well. Others in that vein...

http://dualtrack.blogspot.com/
http://fm-shades.blogspot.com/
http://thethingonthedoorstep.blogspot.com/
http://experimentaletc.blogspot.com/
http://allegory-of-allergies.blogspot.com/
http://shardsofbeauty.blogspot.com/

in a folkier vein
http://grown-so-ugly.blogspot.com/

this is the old thread like this, which i could never find anyway:

rare album mp3s

i bet like 2/3rds of those blogs are gone now.

yeah Mutant Sounds is the standard here imo

This one was great for a lot of the late 90s/early 00s french house labels, but it hasn't been updated much in a while: http://solidgoldberger.blogspot.com/

these blogs give me music vertigo

i never know what to start with or how i will ever listen to all this shiz

A few of my favorites:

http://redneckerson.blogspot.com/ OOP Country albums from the 60s and 70s mostly
http://eldiablotuntun.blogspot.com/ Pre-war blues, Jazz, Country, Spanish, Cuban, Hawaiian
http://unclegil.blogspot.com/ Country, Rockabilly, early rock'n'roll
http://bebopwino.blogspot.com/ Post-war R&B and Blues
http://hoolie68.blogspot.com/ New Country
http://dogl-freeformfarm.blogspot.com/ Rootsy stuff & sundries

here are a few I visit.

http://smalltownpleasures.blogspot.com/ Sunshine Pop, Psych,etc
http://unclegil.blogspot.com/ Country, blues, rockabilly
http://babygrandpa.blogspot.com/ Soul, Disco, Funk
http://dontaskmeidontknow.blogspot.com/ Blues etc
http://boxes-of-toys.blogspot.com/ New Wave, rock, soul
http://thegrowingbin.blogspot.com/ Library music, Prog, Soul, disco,jazz
http://monone-library.blogspot.com/ soundtracks, library music

http://music-bloggers.blogspot.com/ A page with links to lots and lots of music blogs sorted by genre.

more?

My favorite by far is Best Kept Secrets. Very obscure alternative rock that in most cases is out of print. Just make sure you have good virus protection.
http://best-keptsecrets.blogspot.com

did anyone here ever use sordo music database? that place was wonderful. it just got shut down recently, and i'm wondering if there's anything else like it out there.

Haven't heard of it, what was it exactly? Like a search engine specifically for music blogs? Cuz that would pwn.

xpost to borntohula

sordo is overrated, f1l3s tub3 is where it's at

A database of artist and album names with links to rapidshare, sendspace, megaupload, etc. pages of full albums.

Also if you weren't kidding when you said you're looking for "a search engine specifically for music blogs": hypem.com

Seems like it mostly surfaces stuff from lolindie blogs. The kind of stuff I ramble about here.

TYTE

BTW I wasn't kidding, I am totally not savvy wrt these things

hype machine's great at what it does, streaming individual songs from blogs. i think sordo was full albums. and yeah, what k3vin said otm, that place is a gold mine.

Hooboy... I know a couple folks here who would grab everything from http://theisleoffailedpopstars.blogspot.com/

(the URL says all you need)

http://zambonisoundtracks.blogspot.com/ is amazing.

a lot of the blogs i enjoyed have been slowing down or closing of late. RIAA breathing behind their necks?

blog of blogs, gotten lots of tips here
http://thefreewave.blogspot.com/

RIP ZAMBONI SOUNDTRACKS!

no huge surprise i suppose. ian said he was backing his site up and prepared to set up shop elsewhere, so i hope that happens!

Google album blogs are going to be extinct by the end of this year. They're going away in a slow death. It does surprise me that these bloggers don't back up or think of alternatives when their stuff is deleted. I appreciate the things they do (esp. those who do out of print stuff), but they are very slow when it comes to new methods.

It's going to be a pretty quick death, actually, as even blogs full of 1960s are getting DMCAed to death. redtelephone66 just got killed off - they got copyright claims for stuff like the Holy Mackerel album, as if some major would be profiting from it if he weren't sharing it. Shit's ridic.

It kinda makes me wonder what took them so long. It was going on for awhile. However it makes me wonder what the next format is going to be. I would say torrent but that is looking like it will die soon also.

BitTorrent is only dying for those who don't know where to torrent.

Yeah true but you got to think about the rules associated with bitorrent sites especially specialized ones. I can see how a music blogger would be turned off by needing a certain ratio and a community which is easily fickle and vocal.

As long as Cosmic Hearse stays, I'll be happy.

THIS FUCKIN SUCKS

Zamboni soundtracks was my favorite blog on the internet. anyone know his plans?

RIP Redtelephone66

y'all know of a good torrent site for interesting stuff?

sk4funkr4st4punk (not a torrent site, a forum that links to e.g. rapidsh4re, etc.) meets most of my needs but maybe it won't be around much longer?

Private forums/mailing lists are probably the way things have to head now right?

why are album blogs dying?

heaven needed more rapidshare links

getting replaced by cd blogs

As far as I can tell there are two things happening:

--Rapidshare is trying to seem more legit and thus being more aggressive about deleting links to copyrighted material

--Google is super cracking down on Blogger blogs which violate DMCA, like deleting whole blog posts from ppl's sites.

Attention: The YSI Crew

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(courtesy of 'skrit)

SON OF ZAMBONI

sonofzamboni dot blogspot.com/

found this recently, shitload of good stuff, soul, funk, reggae, etc. (caveat being that all links are rapidshare requiring either patience or ponying up some $$)
http://caesartjalbo.blogspot.com/

--Google is super cracking down on Blogger blogs which violate DMCA, like deleting whole blog posts from ppl's sites.

you get an email notifying u that the offending posts have been reset to draft mode. you can remove links and repost if you want, but what's the point

I don't even post tracks anymore (just my playlists for viva radio) but I've gotten a bunch of notices regarding old posts where the links don't even work. kinda thinking of deleting the whole thing and starting over on wordpress tbh

lotsa blogs which just post promos sent from record co.s getting fucked too. apparently. google - no descrimination search.

Hooboy... I know a couple folks here who would grab everything from http://theisleoffailedpopstars.blogspot.com/

I know most of this type of blog is dead or long dormant, but I just checked and Isle of Failed Pop Stars is still active--posting an album every month or so.

Any more of these still going?

http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/ is the only one I check anymore. Still pretty active.

Cool. I see that blog has an update roll of other active blogs. It appears that old power pop bands aren't spending money on cease and desist orders.