July 12, 2004
REVOLUTIONARY GEORGE
So from multiple previous posts and from about town, most of you are probably aware that I am an musicblogger (AKA mp3 blogger AKA audioblogger). A musicblogger is a person who offers interesting, out of print, rare or otherwise engaging music to people at no charge, simply out of love for the sound and to promote artists that they would like to see get more popular. (LINKS OUT THE WAZOO INSIDE...)
I'm not prejudiced; I also include record label sites, artist's personal sites, people who aggregate the daily adventures of other musicbloggers into digests... I like em all.
There are more musicbloggers out there than most people would believe; I've been keeping a close eye on the phenomena these past six months and have compiled what I think is the most comprehensive list of musicbloggers yet available. This resource is on my own page as a sidebar but it's not very user friendly and difficult to unearth and utilize unless you know what you're looking for.
I figured it might be time to let loose a new (in)complete list on to the web. My hope is that (after all you monkeys take some time to explore), that this resource will disseminate out on the web and get a few more people interested.
As of July 4th, all of the following sites were live and had tunes available to listen to.
Here's the grand collection, organized (somewhat) by genre. They are presented in no particular order of preference, barring my personal favorites.
I hope you'll forgive me an initial self link here as I modestly suggest that you might want to start your musical journey by dropping by MY SITE, The Tofu Hut? Now that that's out of the way, here's my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE musicblogs, the ones that I check daily. These are of just about every genre. Check out: Gabba.Pod, Said the Gramophone, Fluxblog, Fruits of Chaos, TtIKtDanceAgain (run by a monkey!), Basic Hip Digital Oddio , Honey Where You Been?, Comfort Stand Records, Tyrone Shoelaces, new (ish), Negro, Please, soul sides, Esselle, Boom Selection, punkassbitch, Totally Fuzzy, Cocaine Blunts, ready rock moe rex, Planet Blarg, copy, right?, Fat Planet, Scenestars, Largehearted Boy, Music For Robots, Radio Babylon, The Suburbs are Killing Us, The Lusitania, Word in the Alleys (run by a monkey!), nevercamehome, Oddio Overplay, Moistworks, GetchaBootlegOn, Tried and True Attention Getting Tactics, womenfolk, MUSIC!, bumrocks, Scissorkick, Pop 77, lacunae, 3hive, Cheeky Monkey, Bloggio Oddio, Rusty Spell, 52 Weeks, Idiot's Guide to Dreaming, Achtung Baby!,Spoilt Vict. Child, Cloud 2, Telephone Thing, Sizemore, The Crutch and Kingblind.
So where are the links?
Ack. Thanks!
Here's a list of excellent music sites that tend to specialize in ROCKNROLL/POP/JAPANESE, CHINESE, KOREAN POP (a popular online subgenre)/"ALTERNATIVE"or"INDEPENDENT" AND RNB: Pop Is Pablum, robot is smashed, Torchomatic 80's, Max's Music Page, Marx vs. Monorail, Vague Space Music, Nobu Log, Modern Life Is Rubbish, Starving But Happy, My Space Music, V/VM Test Records, Bang and Burn, Sixeyes, BPatcher, 1,000,000 Love Songs, Into the Groove, Uncritical, Coolfer, Better Propaganda, Losing My Edge, Lost Bands/New Wave Era, Talkie Walkie, Wants 2B Nameless, Kittytext, Royal Music, Listen Closer, Negatendo Music, Birth/Music/Death, Bubblegum Machine, EmptyFree, classical gasp, nitpick, Mystical Beast (retired, but loved), Sleeve Notes, opacodex, So This Is Love (en espanol), The Catbird Seat, Fighting Against MtPH, Pitchfork, klepshimi, David F. Presents, Fingertips, ZenZen, big ticket, Sloro, NPG Music, Schkopi (Prince Radio), Rock'N'Roll in the Real World (continued below)
MORE ROCKNROLL/POP/JAPANESE, CHINESE, KOREAN POP (a popular online subgenre)/"ALTERNATIVE"or"INDEPENDENT" AND RNB: Mystery and Misery, No Frontin', Just Music, Chromewaves, Dylan, White Stripes Boots, Spinal Tap Collection, george mike, John Peel, Frank Payne, Jeff's Cubicle, Live Tom Waits, Insound, Preservation of Music I Love, K-Records, 2ifbysea Records, Enthusiastic But Mediocre, J/C/K Pop Central (webring of J/C/K pop sites), Coverlog, The Wily Filipino, Epitonic, De Subjectivisten, Blackyellowblack, GLOBALPOPCONSPIRACY, Music For the Free world, NYLPM, Matador Records, Song of Solomon and I heart Nellie McKay.
Here's a few sites that specialize in HIP HOP AND REGGAE: Rank's Reggae Revival, Shutemdown!, The Box, Soulstrut, MC Chris and Hip Hop Music.
Similarly, here's a very few sites that specialize in JAZZ and OLD TIMEY MUSIC: Admas Band, The Vamps, The Red Hot Jazz Archive and The Ragtime Ephemeralist.
Here's a bunch that specialize in DJ CULTURE (which is to say: electronic music + remix and mashup DJ's): Redder Records, DJBC, Fetter Konig, Dinbot, Diffusion Online, Lionel Vinyl, Eve Massacre, Culture Deluxe, Deep Disco Force, mcsleazy, FakeID, soulwax, Reformat Records, Wired Sounds, Release the Reality, DJJayR, Tapeworm Collective, Design Project Neko, Dopplebanger, MP3BLOG, Daz Automatic, //blahblog, fourstones, djfood, Songfight, bOOmbOx, Reset Music, IDC, Fabulous Bastard, NeverHeardIt, disquiet, Go Home Productions, Empire State Human, Bush No. 10, Poj, SutureSounds, Fettdog and Warp Records.
Next up are a collective of EXOTICA/ESOTERIC/BIZARRE music hunters: 365 DAYS, Mark VII, American Song Poem Music, Empty Handed, Raymondo's Dance-O-Rama, Belly Bongo, Your Pal Doug, Little Marcy World, Show and Tell Music, Voices on the Wind, Dana Countryman, Space Debris Presents, Oddball Auditorium, Sem Sinatra's Solar System, April Winchell, Incorrect Music Siftings, Pastor McPurvis and Mister Swank.
Then we have a list of offbeat and unclassiable SPECIAL NEEDS musicblogs; musicblogs that specialize in one offbeat topic: Noam Chomsky Audio, The Fan Soundtrack Listing, Backmask Online, Drummerworld, It's A Trap! (Scandinavian Tunes), Songs to Wear Pants To, Bootleg, Tendo Web, Bhangra Plus, Circuit Benders, The Sound of Magic, Overclocked Remix, Radiant Slab, Theremin Vox, Tamil Mahal, Monkees Sing Along, Gamelan Nyai Saraswati, The Authentic History Center and John Hughes Movies.
Motherfucker!
Lastly, here's a few sites that offer something different, so YOU TELL ME where I should classify them: Brad Sucks, Webjay, Internet Archive, Illegal Art, Troubled Diva, Swen's Weblog, OpenDir, Dream Chimney, ihypq, Steev's South America, Musical Family Tree and IUMA.
Still not enough for you? Okay, here's a few more bonus music sites that feature music you can listen to or tools to find more music: Ogg Vorbis, RadioBlogClub, AltaVista Audio Search, Boombastic Radio, Downhill Battle , Eigenradio, Magnatune, DJ Martian, Oh, Manchester, mp3 4 free and Intellectual Hip Hop.
Here's one last one for good luck: at The Amazing EC Brown MusicLink Page, you'll find LITERALLY hundreds more places to find music.
And there's plenty plenty more; I have at least another thirty or forty musicblogs I haven't listed here yet and new ones are appearing LITERALLY every day.
Go forth and find new music and then go buy an album from one of your new favorites!
I'm gonna post this list on my own site for tomorrow, but I figured the monkeys should have first crack. Good hunting!
Hail King Forky!
Christ on a carousel, forkula. I think you win some sort of {neutron-star banana} award for Densest. Post. EVAR.
*shakes head, eyeballs continue to roll around in sockets
What. Was. That?
*smooths down Monkey fur
Whew, Forks. VERY impressive.
Dang, I wanna grow up and get DSL.
I would venture to say a lot of this isn't my thing, but I'm still going to sample bits and pieces here and there since you've given me inspiration to try to broaden my outlook a bit.
I like a Monkey that knows their stuff!
Forks, are you spoiling yourself? That's material worth for a hundred FPPs.
There goes my productivity for the foreseeable future. Thanks (I think). :/
Holy crap! This is awesome. Instant bookmark material.
) Double-Platinum Banana )
Woah.
*bookmarks frantically*
forks, you are teh r0x0r.
Thanks man. That. Was. Huge.
And just because it was buried in the middle, and I feel like this is the place for a gratuitous self link.
My own MP3Blog, Teaching The Indie Kids To Dance Again.
Yay Mp3 blogs!
Forks, you are fan-fucking-tastic! This whole thread is going into my bookmarks. At the very least for the catalogue aspect of it. Where on earth do you find the time for this?????
I've checked out your sight on many occasions and my mind boggles at your list.
Your amazing, truly. And thank you.
)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))...........
Thanks for the kind words all.
I'll probably keep posting my new finds in this thread, so yeah: go ahead and bookmark.
OK, gotta go finish tomorrow's blog entry...
Wow! Our own forksclovetofu, undisputed holder of Monkeyfilter's Grand Links Championship! A tour de forks, in factr!
I don't often use the word, but forks, you are EVIL!
hey, I can see my
houseblog from here!
fantastic effort, forks!
forks exploded. The fucker was a link bomb.
damn you forks, i don't have the cash for this music thing! so many albums to buy, so little time to convince the wife i can't live without 'em...
Good grief. I need never leave the house again ... Thanks Forks
What everyone else said.
infite bananananananananananananas
Now that you've see the immense power that Forks doth possess, won't someone please help the boy find gainful employment where he can exploit these skills? We are in the process of
paddingrevising his resume, and will be glad to send one along. Just a plea from a concerned citizen (and Forks' personal career counselor).
This is something I'd always meant to find out more about, but didn't know where to start. WELL then. Problem solved.
...
wow. I think I'm gonna cry.
And *still* no comments in the last coupla weeks.
nobody loves me *sob*
Nobody EVER comments bbf. It's infuriating, but there you are.
* gives BBF a hug*
thanks for the massive listy, forks! now I can quit pestering my friends for music and get my own.
I am the owner of www.songz.blogspot.com>No Frontin'</a> mp3 blog. Personally I check Fluxblog, Said the Gramophone, Tofuhut, and Music for Robots daily.
oops, i'm an html idiot
A few more. Ignore the
tags. I'm feeling lazy.
Swung by Seraphim
Big Dada Recordings
Space Debris Presents
Weirdomusic
Show and Tell
Space Age Pop
Time Wastin'
Demo. Bootleg Ltd.
S. M. Through the Fair
TMBG
L. Askance from '63
Marching Music
USAF Heritage
Weed
S. I Learned Today
Live Roots
hotsexkitten
I'm A Cuckoo
Red Lotus Radio
Telephone Thing
Pete Ashton
Mixtaper
Big + Rich
Princess Superstar
MP3 Jackpot
Dokaka (Temp)
Parkspliced
Netlabel Catalogue
DJ Prince
Timbaland Heaven
Punk Rock I.M.V
On Classical
Video Game Archives
Sounds Are Active
AqLMA
Kathleen DuJour
Strangely Familiar
Everybody sing along!
Li li li li li li li!
Li li li li li li li!
Li li li li li li li!
Thanks be to you,
forksclovetofu!
now all I need is a working sound card in my computer
*kisses forksy ass*
Question, forks: do you know of any that are specifically music for kids? I want to download some cool music for my son, but what I can find by googling and on amazon is pretty much crap.
Um, tracicle, not a blog, but these guys just put out a kid's album not too long ago (friends of mine from back home). It's hillbilly stuff (dunno if you're into that), but the album is tons 'o' fun. I don't have kids, and I've got a copy of it in my car right now. One disc for play time, one disc for sleepy time.
TMBG has a blog of kids music and a nice site up for the "No" album. Google or go through the TMBG link above.
I'll be updating this list yet again in just a minute.
Okay. New additions. Again, sorry about the
Nuclear Beef</a>
Oozak=Kazoo
Bastard Jazz
Life of a Spuckle
Monkey SARS
Garage Hangover
Impulse
Music for Unicorns
Andrew Spencer
Blue Note Records
John Vanderslice
Fandom Soundtrack
Spinart Records
Feist (US RELEASE PLEASE!)
Nimbus Coleman
USounds
qua
Native American Music
Ambience for the Masses
Eugene Mirman
Frigital Records
MYSTICAL BEAST IS BACK!
The Sound of 7
Experimental Audio Psychology
Bob Mould is Musicblogging
I highly recommend that if you find one of these in ANY of these posts that you think merits an FPP, go to it. I certainly won't call a double post and I can't imagine anyone else would either.
and again:
Universel
done waiting
web nymph
opsound
phlow
1 mil free (some legal)
share the music
soulseek records
interdisco
zenbilly
fresh tunage
heraclitus sayz
funk you
song corp. (eppy's band)
Land of 999 Dances
Rato Records
Pop Peth
Matt Sandy Band
Wirtualna Polska
Tremolo
This Mix is a Mess
Pleasure for Your Ears
Sounds Like Funday
Scene Point Blank
Ending East
4F
BigRockCandyMountain
Virt
The Marks
Plastic Little Raps
Antificial Radio
Go Robot Go
RIAA is my Fave Band
Smart Music
Silence Rhythm 2
Famous for Dying
Surfdog Music
The Shifties
Witness Exchange
Ampcast
Woodentop
LastSoundofSummer
NO.1 in Belgium
Ubiquity Records
Stypod
Rummage
Music Is a Virus
DreamtimeMix
PWI
Angels Twenty
where, in the name of all that is bendy and green, do you find the time?? I can barely keep up with 2 or 3 blogs let alone these hundred thousand
/wimper
forks is truly a god among mortals
Open all in tabs, see which have music that sounds good, close the rest, methodically download one track at a time. Requires daily checking.
That's how I do it given ideal conditions.
Honestly, I don't download music much anymore. I'm full up and need all my time just to keep up with my site. What I'm doing is trying to chronicle all the musicblogs as they appear and disappear.
And thank you.
All hail Forks, BBF & Capt Psyko, the Three Musicmonkeyteers, the Unholy Trinity of All That Is Audible, the Triadic Equation of Magnificent MP3s.
Unfortunately, I'll be making my last post for a while, at least, today - I've got too much shit going on in my life at the moment to be running a website.
Plus, it takes away time when I could be playing Spiderman 2.
Please note that this has been drastically reworked and re-updated... go here for v2.0
No stereogum?
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