What music sites have good writing?

I wanted to Asobi Seksu in Oxford but they got bumped from headlining a smaller venue for very cheap to supporting 65DOS at the Carling Academy. This ticket price has gone up accordingly and 65DOS are _awful_ so I am no longer going : (

Just thinking out loud. Sorry to derail.

I love 65dos WAY more than Asobi, who I quite like.

I just reviewed an Asobi Seksu song for our radio station. It was quite good. Arguing about 65DOS is pointless because they're extremely divisive (and it's already been done at great length), so I won't.

Still, though, if the band you want to see are playing in your town, you should go! Just leave before the main act. It's no enormous loss.

Thread has been derailed, guys.

I'm still interested in the main question: What music sites have good writing these days? Updated daily, weekly, hell, any more good blogs out there? Blogs by ILXors? Blogs by musicians?

What else does everyone read, or at least check, daily or close to daily?

i think this thread is dumb, but you're much better off reading blogs by respected dudes— like the ones meantioned upthread— than you are trolling google results for knock-off pitchfork sites. tiny mix tapes and coke machine glow are garbage.

popmatters is good.

The Electric Version, obv.

I don't look for knock-off pitchfork sites on google searches. I generally type in [band name] [album name] and hit 'Search'. Sometimes I chuck the word 'review' in as well. I then judge the outcomes fairly against one another, regardless of their Pfork-esque-ness.

Popmatters is often OK, but it has also been responsible for some of the worst reviews I've ever seen.

dude tape store vox is the worst publication to ever write about music in the history of ever.

for all you euros, it's this really shitty student mag in columbia, mo that writes blowjob-y basically press realeases about like kenny chessney and saliva and spoon that have quotes like "i love spoon. they make me wanna dance."

Jordan, what are you talking about? This is the best article on Spoon I've ever read:

http://www.voxmagazine.com/stories/2007/09/27/ten-things-you-didnt-know-about-spoon/

"3. Stephen King (the author) named “I Summon You” one of the best songs of 2005."

you're much better off reading blogs by respected dudes— like the ones meantioned upthread— than you are trolling google results for knock-off pitchfork sites. tiny mix tapes and coke machine glow are garbage.
-- J0rdan S., Sunday, October 28, 2007 2:19 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

who says i troll for pitchfork imitators? really, pitchfork is best at the niche it caters to, and as far as tinymixtapes (and i mentioned this on the TMT thread, in fact) the stuff i've found most valuable is the looking back at old records, the DeLorean/Eureka! sections in particular, and could care less about the new reviews. Cokemachineglow i couldn't care less about.

Which is why i asked a few posts ago: hell, any more good blogs out there? Blogs by ILXors? Blogs by musicians?

What else do *YOU* read, J0rdan?

haha that sidebar is hung up on a wall in the office in the of the paper i write for in columbia in our "lol vox" shrine xpost.

7. David Cross did an interpretive dance to “The Beast and Dragon Adored” at the Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival and bared his bottom. It’s all over YouTube.

as for the Spoon article, that ^^^ is the only thing I didn't already know (as a big fan, and an Austin TX resident, for the last decade; been following 'em since Telephono as a local band), and that's something i really didn't need to know about Spoon. thanks.

but in all seriousness v0x is honestly a nuclear holocuast of "music journalism"

think for me if my blog had turned out to be just a music blog I would have been horrified. Quite obviously I'm well aware on what very small measure my relative 'fame' rests, and it's all the music writing I've done. But said writing will in large part appear elsewhere and I'll link to it as it appears; this leaves me free to talk about whatever I'd like to. And I'll freely admit that the blogs I most often refresh and review on a daily basis are the socio/political ones I track.

Yes, otm. Then again, often I post on a whim, after hearing or reading something that struck me, and while I often start thinking it'll be brief I write more than I intend.

Sideline operations have a tendency to become, unwittingly, your life.The announcement of the end of Stylus a few months ago reminded me that I'm a book and film guy by nature.

trolling for pitchfork knock-offs was not meant as an insult, ppl (or was it just lj) said that this was something they did. sigh. for music websites that i read, pitchfork and then blogs, basically idolator (best music blog on the internet right now and its not really close), status aint hood blog on village voice and a few of the blogs you mentioned upthread.

agreed that Idolator is #1 no contest.

Alfred, where's yr blog at? not sure i've come across it before.

I like 17 Dots a lot. Yes, it's "the unofficial blog" of eMusic. No, it doesn't blindly promote anything and everything on eMusic. In fact, given it's affiliation with eMusic, I'm surprised at how independent-minded and critical it is. And the writing is straightforward and consistently top-notch. I think at least a few of the regular 17 Dots authors post (or used to post) on ILM: Yancey Strickler, Todd Burns (coincidentally, the EIC of Stylus, I think), and J. Edward Keyes, among others.

^^yes.

hey thanks!

Alfred, where's yr blog at?

This is it, right? It's good. Lots of interesting film discussion, too.

ah i have that bookmarked already. didn't know it was Alfred. yeah it's good!

x-post from way up there

As for Jess admitting things, I'm not sure why it's troubling you, I admit.

-- Ned Raggett, Sunday, October 28, 2007 4:51 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

It is not troubling me at all. It is a good thing. M (Mark ?) Coleman had posted upthread does "jess harvell actually like any music?" and I was explaining that he does and that he, in his article on hype blogs, had touched on the subject of he, himself, hyping bands he liked in his reviews for Pitchfork. I think it is too bad that Jess is not gonna write any more reviews for Pitchfork.

I think ethnomusicologist Wayne Marshall's wayne and wax site that I linked to above, along with DJ Rupture/Jace Clayton's Mudd Up?Negrophonic blog are very interesting reads. I don't always agree with Simon Reynolds but I always read his site as well.

Alfred, where's yr blog at?

This is it, right? It's good. Lots of interesting film discussion, too.

-- Daniel, Esq.,

Yup, that's it. Thanks for reading.

To add to the list of music-crit blogs I posted above:

Clap Clap
http://www.clapclap.org/

Pretty Goes with Pretty
http://prettygoeswithpretty.typepad.com/

The Good Dr. Bill's blog (Intensities in Ten Suburbs) is the one I check the most. Andrew has a brilliant mind and his writing is consistently entertaining and updated almost daily.

btw, I don't read Idolator, but judging from the overwhelming praise here, I'll definitely start reading it.

so no one reads junkmedia? i've been writing for them (at this point mainly out of habit) for five (!) years. it never seems to come up in any of these discussions, but according to the webmaster and editor, we have a fairly sizeable readership. or at least a fairly sizeable number of people who look at the site, i don't know if they actually read anything.

it's never been a site with any amazing editorial slant (we're not very organized) but it's got decent reviews/interviews ... coverage runs a bit more indie schmindie than my tastes these days, but maybe worth a look?

Eric Harvey = Eric H, horror movie buff extraordinaire, non?

Non.