A musicblogger/audioblogger/MP3blogger is a person who offers interesting, out of print, rare or otherwise engaging music to people at no charge, out of love for the sound and to promote artists that they would like to see get more popular. 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.
What you WON'T find in here are file directories without commentary or sites offering a full album that is currently in print. Audioblogging is NOT about piracy; it's about selectively sharing sounds.
There are more musicbloggers out there than most people would believe; I've been keeping a close eye on the phenomena for about two years 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 I wanna share it with you here.
In the time between Version 2.0 (to say nothing of 1.0) and now, dozens of previously listed musicblogs have ceased to exist... and HUNDREDS of new ones have appeared. Add the dozens of already-existing additional sites that I've stumbled upon since November and you can see why I think it's time for an update. My hope is that (after all you monkeys take some time to explore), that this resource will be disseminated onto the web and get a few more people interested.
As of May 9th, 2005, all of the following sites are live and have tunes available to listen to. Almost all of them allow you to download music to listen to at your leisure.
Here's the grand collection, organized by my own interpretation of their primary genre and (new feature!) alphabetically for easier reference.
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 other home of this list, The Tofu Hut?
Th' Hut drops new posts regularly with scads of reference material and MP3s for your delectation; we also update this list with newly emerging musicblogs on the regular and cover the waterfront with all matter of silly linkage and news in all fields.
And there's plenty, plenty more; new ones are appearing LITERALLY every day.
Hey, if you found this list helpful or if you enjoy Th' Tofu Hut, would you maybe consider donating a couple of bucks to the cause? The plan is to release v.4.0 of this list with short descriptions of each blog and interviews with the most prominent writers. Doing these sort of projects is laborious and time-consuming; any little bit can help.
Explore this incomplete listing, enjoy the sounds and buy an album from one of your new favorites!
Holy shit.
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This would be a good addition to the MoFi Wiki, methinks.
You know, this is the first self-link that I have no problem with, whatsoever.
I'm very angry.
Now that's some thorough postin', forks! Bananas for you. )
But I am inclined to think that the better place is on the Wiki / personal projects. But that's just me.
I'm with Koko--seems like you could maintain this list much more successfully in the wiki (and be able to do some formatting). This would also allow others to add links, remove dead links, etc.
KoKo and chimaera -- can the MoWiki be accessed by the general public? If not, forky would be doing double work.
I can't find anything on our Wiki even when I sign in, so I'm giving it up.
/techological ignoramus
Hmm... I'm not sure, but should I be calling my fellow monkeys to bring their pitchforks and torches to the town square again?
Speaking of which, where did I put that pitchfork... it's around here somewhere *grumble*.
can somebody clone me please. then I might just have time to do justice to the incredible service that Forks has just paid us.
wow. wow and indeed wow.
Pitchforksclovetofu?
This is outstanding... best of the web. And there's no reason that it can't be posted on the wiki as well, for the excellent reasons given by patita.
D'oh! I meant to make this a (more inside) post... can a mod please hope me?
If someone else chose to use this as the basis for a wiki, I'd have no issue as long as they note where the foundation came from and linked back to th' Hut.
I'm much too exhausted to try that myself.
Thanks for the kind words.
bees,, technically the public can view it on the Wiki, because you don't have to be logged in to read it only edit.
But finding things is tough. I hope something good comes out of the new "we should categorize better" ideas.
*clicks on random link*
The New Pornographers are coming up with a new album for release later this year? Cool. Thanks forks!
forks, I luv yuuuu.
i knew there was a reason to check back in at teh monkeyhouse. this is very great. thanks mr. f. c. tofu.
/updates v.2.0 bookmark
I'm currently losing disk space at a rate of about 6 megs per second, and i'm only a bit of the way through the mash-up section.
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You're a champion all over again, forky.
Thanks, as always, Forks. So much goodness here.
And I really do hope someone will set this list up on the wiki so it can be edited and periodically updated.
I would do it, but my technical prowess is at sub-beeswacky level.
I've wiki-ized it (with the help of Vim regular expressions) and you can access it (or, more importantly, modify it) here. Thanks, forksclovetofu!
For those who were wondering, you can change all simple HTML links in a document to Wiki-style links with the following command in Vim:
:%s/<a href="\([^"]*\)">\([^<]*\)<\/a>/[\1 \2]/g
Yay, line noise!
Interesting! Uh, not to be an asshole, but what am I doin' down at the bottom? Can somebody wiki my ass up that ladder?
Anyway, I'll be doing site by site reviews over time on my own, but I'll be curious to see if people add to this. There IS an MP3 blog wiki already on the main wikipedia; anybody who wants to amalgamate, feel free.
Not incidentally, now that I've looked at the wiki, this looks brilliant. I'll link to this on my own page mucho pronto!
best.
just the fucking best.
you rock my jocks, forksy.
I am a wacky little monkey; I just moved the monkeywiki to the main wiki!
Let's take over the world, ya'll!
God damn forksclovetofu this is amazing.
me too! (as in wow).
forks does it again. Thank you!
*thunderous applause*
Holy fuck!
really
Forks, you never fail to amaze. The amount of work this represents is boggling. You deserve a ton of cash for this!!!!!!!! Perpetual ))) for you.
:%s/<a href="\([^"]*\)">\([^<]*\)<\/a>/[\1 \2]/gYay, line noise!