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dodger · Gender: Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 2136 Status: User

Okay, so the word "blog" is something that sounds like onomatopoeia for throwing up, but I read 'em, and you probably read 'em too.

Anybody have any blogs that they follow regularly? I read You And Me (Reggae, in Portuguese), Scar Stuff (Halloween-type stuff), and Alejandeath (Metal). I also check WFMU's Beware of the Blog pretty much every day.

Carlo Von Sexron · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:17 am Post subject:

Get Off My Elevator
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Mikes! · Gender: Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 1843 Status: Moderator

Blogs are so 2004.

(Beware of the Blog.)

Mavhunter · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject:

Pitchfork, I guess, for the new music. Oh, and the Hype Machine pulls songs from all kinds of blogs into once place.
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Otogi-san · gleep glorp Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 5077 Status: User

In before but I can locked.

Sharp · Gender: Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 5942 Status: User

No music blogs. Just neatorama.

Rocky Sullivan · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:41 am Post subject:

no blogs, just www.markprindle.com
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dodger · Gender: Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 2136 Status: User

Since the thread didn't go very far, I'm updating it to include sites you read regularly for criticism. If you're like me (and that would be awesome), you read music reviews all the damn time. These are the ones in my bookmark toolbar that I find informative:

AV Club
Popmatters
Stylus
Cokemachineglow
Punknews.org

I've poked around for a decent site for heavy metal reviews, and been pretty disappointed. I guess I'll just have to keep my subscription to Metal Maniacs.

the bunk · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:14 am Post subject:

music reviews are tough to read. ill usually look into a record in pitchfork's BEST NEW MUSIC though, despite how terrible their reviews are
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dodger · Gender: Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 2136 Status: User

Yeah, the main problem I have with most reviews is that they're TOO LONG. Especially when someone somehow manages to review an album without telling me whether a) what this album sounds like, b) what some standout tracks are, and c) what sort of artists are comparable. Thanks, Pitchfork, for managing to consistenly publish extremely long "reviews" that tell me NOTHING. Usually I see what Pitchfork reviews, and then look somewhere else for reviews of it.

I mean, sometimes I like to hear a little history on a band... but just a little. I mean, if it's not an album I'm going to like (like, if it's an acoustic singer-songwriter album), I'd like to know that up front before I bother reading the whole history of a band I don't care about.

Maybe my preference for one-paragraph reviews comes from working at the radio station for so long, where the staff would write reviews for the new stuff coming in and tape them inside an album's case. A paragraph is about all you could squeeze in there, and that seemed to do the trick. So why waste everyone's time if you don't have to?

That's why I like the AV Club, or magazines. Their reviews are always concise. I wonder if the people at Pitchfork know that their reviews section is lousy compared to the back pages of Alternative Press? Shameful, really.

Rocky Sullivan · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:59 am Post subject:

guys, just read Mark Prindle - it ups the review reading enjoyment by 100s of percentages.
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dodger · Gender: Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 2136 Status: User

Sorry, Bone. Dude reviews stuff that's way old and takes a long time to say it.

I can get that from my dad.

the snuggler · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject:

Ray · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject:

If I "read" Blender then I "read" a lot of other junk magazines that get tossed into the recycle bin at work. Rolling Eyes

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Rocky Sullivan · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:41 pm Post subject: