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valley_parade:
The only music magazines I read are Magnet, AP, and Guitar Player. Don't know if any of those help you or not.

Praeserpium Machinarum:

--- Quote ---To be fair to Pitchfork, the reviews on CMG and TMT all have pretty much the same level of eliteness.
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I disagree about TMT, whereas Pitchfork's reviews are rarely about the music, TMT's are. In most TMT's reviews you get the sense that is about the music and they are not as much critics as they are fans/listeners. They may know their stuff but that doesn't make them elitists, in a bad way anyway.

On topic:
I read Tiny Mix Tapes, Undertoner(danish indie site) and the biggest music mag in Denmark, Gaffa. Gaffa's printed issue is a bit meh really, but their news are good and their reviews are suffice, if not actually detailed.
I read Geiger(the site, not the mag) sometimes but it is just too musician's nerdy for me, but very extensive and knowledgable.

Thrillho:
Q, Mojo.

As for websites, the one I write for is my fave ;-)

Rubby:
I just dont understand what everyone has against Pitchfork.

Garcin:
Part of it's jealousy of their reviewers' power to give a huge boost to a little-known band with a stellar review.  Part of it is contempt for their reviewers' tendency to, with purple prose and nearly un-matched pretension,  take a decent album and either claim it's transcendental or mock it in a very personal way -- depending upon the reviewer's bias.

And part of it is all the times that they've been so incredibly wrong.

But hey, I'm no hater.  I think that they're extremely useful, I almost always check out what they have to say, and their reviews are better, more skillfully written, and more insightful now than at any time in the past.  Even if I rarely agree with them.  Frankly, I used asterisks in the first post because everyone already knows about them, and there really isn't much point in having a conversation where everything has been said before.

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