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[baeryn]

Anyone know any other good ones?

[TheFuriousWombat]

Lots of good "post-rock" and ambient: http://community.livejournal.com/postrockxchange
Lots of random, cool folk variations and some other stuff: http://glowingraw.blogspot.com/
IDM: http://community.livejournal.com/idmxchange

[the-artful-dodger-rodger]

here are some music blogs I like

http://www.absolutmetal.com/index.htm
http://www.jazzandblues.blogspot.com/
http://heavy-planet.blogspot.com/
http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/
http://nwoarm.blogspot.com/
http://sludgeswamp.blogspot.com/

[a pack of wolves]

Not exactly a blog, but I always read the reviews on Collective Zine.
WFMU's Beware of the Blog is a wonderful mining of the stranger side of recordings.
I read Zen And The Art of Face Punching a lot, unlike some blogs they sometimes have really great, very personal accounts of their relationships to the music they post and that's my favourite kind of music writing.
Last Train To Cool I like because it covers a nice breadth of music, from hardcore to jazz.

[baeryn]

I have another question, if I get my music from bloggers, where do they get their music?

[baeryn]

Eh. It's really the whole 'starting out as a music journalist' that confuses me. That has either got to be a shitload of work calling different record companies or they just copy off of other blogs until they get well known. And, we see colors the same because of the color wheel. Amazing when we think back to 2nd grade what we can learn.

[Tom]

popapocalypse.blogspot.com

[GenericName]

Actually, the color wheel only ensures that the names we have for colors match up with the names everyone else has. And even further back than that, you originally learned your colors from toys or objects that your parents called by that color, so originally your base "blue", "red", etc. was slightly different from everyone else's even assuming we all see the same hues and tints. But if I were hooked up to your eyes, I could very well see all the colors inverted but just be calling them the same things. To put it differently, your red could be my green, but we could both just be calling them red.

Oh. Right, music blogs. I don't read them.

[tswift_2]

I like http://www.alimerickox.com/

[a pack of wolves]

Eh. It's really the whole 'starting out as a music journalist' that confuses me. That has either got to be a shitload of work calling different record companies or they just copy off of other blogs until they get well known.

Buy recent releases and review them, or review older releases (don't just gush over your favourite albums though). Send your work to places and try to become one of their reviewers or set up your own blog/site and if you become big enough people will start sending you releases to review. Maybe one day you'll end up getting a job somewhere they pay you to review things, but don't hold your breath. Almost no purely web-based publications pay their writers (or pay them enough that it forms a significant part of their income), your best bet is to try for a job at a newspaper or magazine if you want to make a living from it.

For anyone with an interest in pop William B. Swygart's blog is really great. He often live blogs things like the top 40 or watching an evening of The Hits. His style is very personal and he really genuinely cares about pop music, so you get his anger and boredom at the worst things the chart has to offer tempered by his sheer joy at a chorus that works. If any of you that used to read Stylus, he edited and wrote for the UK Singles Jukebox blog there.

[Johnny C]

Seconding Swygart, if only because he's a remarkably clever gent.

[sean]

I read Zen And The Art of Face Punching a lot, unlike some blogs they sometimes have really great, very personal accounts of their relationships to the music they post and that's my favourite kind of music writing.

I second this blog. A lot of ace stuff gets posted up there.

[baeryn]

Eh. It's really the whole 'starting out as a music journalist' that confuses me. That has either got to be a shitload of work calling different record companies or they just copy off of other blogs until they get well known.

Buy recent releases and review them, or review older releases (don't just gush over your favourite albums though). Send your work to places and try to become one of their reviewers or set up your own blog/site and if you become big enough people will start sending you releases to review. Maybe one day you'll end up getting a job somewhere they pay you to review things, but don't hold your breath. Almost no purely web-based publications pay their writers (or pay them enough that it forms a significant part of their income), your best bet is to try for a job at a newspaper or magazine if you want to make a living from it.

For anyone with an interest in pop William B. Swygart's blog is really great. He often live blogs things like the top 40 or watching an evening of The Hits. His style is very personal and he really genuinely cares about pop music, so you get his anger and boredom at the worst things the chart has to offer tempered by his sheer joy at a chorus that works. If any of you that used to read Stylus, he edited and wrote for the UK Singles Jukebox blog there.

I'm not trying to be a music reviewer or anything. I was just curious.

[prodigalbum]

Hype Machine is an aggregator of music blogs. Or you can just look through the list of blogs it pulls from here.

[RedLion]

THANK YOU.

[the Goat]

I really like John Darnielle's blog: Last Plane to Jakarta. I've gotten into some cool things thanks to him, like Stockholm Monsters, Section 25 and the whole LTM catalog. He doesn't update it much, but the posts about death metal are worth reading alone.

It's more of a personal blog, but Jessica Hopper's blog usually has some interesting insights, plus some great classic clips from YouTube.

And even though its dead, The Secret Society of the Diminished Seventh has lots of great stuff in the archives to browse through.

[Dimmukane]

This was pointed out to me by onewheelwizzard, if you like anything remotely stoner-influenced, this is a good place to go.

[sean]

^I recommend the above blog too, if only for the reason thats where I found the Pax Cecilia.

Also, it just really depressed me cause they had a copy of LITE's new album posted but it was already taken down. Poo, how am I supposed to find out if its good?