Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Billboard Year End Charts

Off-topic, Cool Resource. http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php

Yes to Jazz


New blog with decent jazz collection. http://yestojazz.blogspot.com/index.html

All Night Thing


Lots of live recordings, mostly indie and alternative artists. http://night-thing.blogspot.com/index.html

Lagrima Psicodelica


Classic Rock and a little more. Some discographies (the Who, Rush, The Police) http://lagrimapsicodelica.blogspot.com/

Sunday, April 22, 2007

The Roadhouse


How did I not run into this blog sooner? 432 posts in April alone. Tons of classic rock and much much more. http://the-roadhouse-viander.blogspot.com/index.html

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Musicalement Votre


Great 80's and 90's collection (singles and albums). Some great rare baggy albums.

ILM Rough Guide, John Peel Festive 50


ILM Rough Guide is a wonderful reference to "Scenes" and what songs to look for. I'll be scouring through this more myself but it looks very promising! http://www.base58.com/ilx/ilm/ilmroughguide.html Also found John Peel's Festive 50 by Year which also looks like a good read. http://www.festive50.com/

Eternal Contestador


Brazilian Blog with all kinds of genres. Some International of course, but most in English, and with few live shows too. Lots of stuff! http://gamesediversoes.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Spinato's Musicpills


Not quite sure what type of music other then music from seventies and eighties. A few Roxy Music up's. http://spinatosmusicpills.blogspot.com/index.html

Bunalti


Hard Rock, Metal, and Death Metal. Whole discographies. A few dead links but otherwise very impressive. http://www.bunalti.com/?page_id=582

Monday, April 16, 2007

Akiraware.com


My favorite place for Smiths artwork now has 50 live bootlegs for direct download. Wowsers! http://www.akiraware.com/main.php

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Shoegazer Alive


Great shoegaze blog. Glad its continuing with new vigor. http://shoegazeralive.blogspot.com/index.html

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Rapmetal Bart


Lots of discographies: RATM, Deftones, Slipknot, Tool, etc. http://rapmetal-bart.blogspot.com/

Metal Music


Huge list of Metal blogs and now other genres as well. http://rockshot.eu/musicblogs.html

Monday, April 9, 2007

Linkworld


Links for Metal, Hard Rock, and Nu-metal. Some discographies as well (George Thorogood, Van Halen, AC/DC, Iron Maiden...) http://linkyourstuff.blogspot.com/

Mp3 For All


Tons and tons of classic to modern rock.
http://mp34all-password.blogspot.com/

Boards of Electronica


Pearl Jam Web


Nothing but live Pearl Jam. http://pearljamweb.blogspot.com/

DiscosGrunge


Wow the Grunge blog I've always dreamed of. You will need Firefox & Java Enabled to see any of the archives (?) but do so! Only negative is they are 128 bit rate rips. http://discosgrunge.blogspot.com/

Sunday, April 8, 2007

Reasons why to search BLOGS for music

  • Faster downloads then p2p
  • Complete zipped albums. No more partial downloads
  • No networking knowledge needed like p2p (ie ports)
  • Scarce and obscure music, discographies, and box sets
  • Find recommended new music
  • Cross-linking on blogs = unlimited choices
  • Worksafe surfing
  • Like Used Record Store Shopping Online
  • Torrents will track. Time to move away from music torrents people.
  • Try before you buy!