Review/Info Websites

[pony]

Hi All,
does anyone have suggestions for non-label websites to browse for new bands/albums etc. I've been out of the loop for a while and am looking for some new music to fall in love with. Please DON'T suggest pitchfork (not that you would!)
thanks!

[Paul]

Best option... hang out on this very board in the listen pile thread.

[japanese_moon]

I second that, here is pretty much the only place where I find my new music

[Paul]

Failing that, you can trust what this guy has to say:

http://www.75orless.com/?archive/paul/index.php

[pony]

yeah, i used to check in here everyday, but i got a little tired after a while. I'll get back into it I guess.

is that your site by any chance? looks good

[Paul]

Originally posted by pony
is that your site by any chance? looks good It was unofficially for a while, but more people finally started writing.

[johansen smith]

I only trust message boards anymore.

[S M @]

This is also pretty good:

http://eye.net/

You obviously have to go to the music section, it's the online version of a Toronto entertainment/whatever else weekly. Don't be put off by the R. Kelly review this week, they review and feature every type of music pretty much.... and if you go to the back issues section, you can see the full edition for every past week going way back. They seem to have less of an agenda than a lot of stuff you read these days, except maybe a bit of bias towards more local stuff, which is excusable.

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by Paul
It was unofficially for a while, but more people finally started writing.

wait, did you start 75 or less? did I know that?

[Paul]

Originally posted by tinobeat
wait, did you start 75 or less? did I know that? Oh, hell no! I just came on board at a time when most of the original batch of contributors had moved onto other things leaving me to review 2 or 3 or sometimes 4 albums a week. That was fun, actually. But now there are more new people and my presence has been scaled back... and that's fine with me as well.

[Brushback]

"75 words or less"-- how about 4 (http://www.coolfer.com/blog/archives/2005/07/four-word_revie_5.html)? :D

(from coofer.com (http://www.coolfer.com/blog/), which is not a bad "music info" site in its own right)

[Thor]

I have three ways of discovering new music:

- people/friends/message boards (like this)

- the "similar artists" sections of both amazon.com and allmusic.com. You have to plough through some shit, but I've discovered some amazing shit through this method.

- If I like a newish band, and hear them being branded as copycats of certain older bands, I inevitably explore these older bands and end up getting into both the new and old. After falling in love with interpol, for example, and reading reviews with some copycat accusations, I was able to get into:

The Chameleons
Joy Division
Echo and The Bunnymen
Psychedelic Furs
Television

Bands that I knew nothing about before hand and I now adore them all.

[winterwooskie]

there is splendid's http://splendidezine.com/

also, http://cdbaby.com it's a distro. but it's a really great place to just wonder around in because there is so much stuff and you can listen to most of the songs on the albums and there is just a lot of stuff that you might not be able to hear about any other way.

also, record label message boards are also really good places, some have more about bands outside the label from people just posting about them. k records' http://www.krecs.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi and plan-it-x records' http://www.hijinx.nu/pix/index.php

or you can just skip the middle-person and go get stuff from justin vollmar, kickball, spencer owen, and erin tobey. lol