The 25 Best Music Websites
According to the new Entertainment Weekly...
01. iTunes
02. eMusic
03. Pandora
04. Rhapsody
05. MySpace
06. The Live Music Archive
07. Stereogum
08. Turntablelab
09. KCRW's and KEXP's Song Of The Day
10. Fluxblog
11. Smithsonian Global Sound
12. NPR's 'All Things Considered' Podcast
13. Soul-Sides
14. I Love Music
15. Mixunit
16. Pitchfork
17. Radio David Byrne
18. Insound
19. Lemon-Red
20. Music For Robots
21. Woxy
22. Little Steven's Underground Garage
23. BBC Radio
24. AOL Music's Listening Party and MTV's The Leak
25. Dusty Groove
I will have to check out this "Pitchfork." Meanwhile, ILXers discuss the list ("When did iTunes become a Web site?").
Posted at 11:08 PM
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Wait for my flashy retail store on 5th Ave.
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Good to see Stereogum is in the top 10. I would've put Pandora first though - that is one awesome music site, and if the Music Genome Project (the music database behind Pandora) were better utilitsed by third party companies, then I would have to say that it would be better than Gracenote.
http://www.musictimes.com.au
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Its nice to see the number of blogs that made it on the list. #7 over a lot of great sites is a real accomplishment.
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hah, well ahead of pitchfork
nice one!
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Glad to see stereogum in there, but jefitoblog.com needs to be, too.
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i think it's the K-Fed coverage that seperates you guys from the rest of the indie bloggers.
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Nice work Stereogum.
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So how does it feel to kick Pitchfork's ass in 13 different ways?
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i think its funny that your link to pitchfork goes to a "livestock world" webpage...always stickin' it to 'em, stereogum.
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"i think its funny that your link to pitchfork goes to a "livestock world" webpage...always stickin' it to 'em, stereogum."
I think it's funny that you're checking the validity of all the links, way to go!!!
congrats Stereogum, but go easy on the Britt/K Fed story and gimmie some stories about Beirut and you stalking Sufjan.
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Congrats!
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no hype machine on there? are you fucking joking?
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Would love to see The 25 Best Music Websites too.
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Would love to see The 25 Best Music blogs too
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Well done!
Why is iTunes #1 though? Its not very informative, the files only work on one mp3 player, it is very restrictive in what it puts on the servers. Heck, I'd even rate Purevolume above it.
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Little Steven's Underground Garage?
They have to be kidding. Stay away from the irony EW, unintentional or not.
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I came out of this actually feeling sorry for Pitchfork...
and is Pandora really better than last.fm? cause i've experienced otherwise.
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Stereogum is definitely better than Pitchfork! As is, in fact, Fluxblog, and all the other MP3 blogs up there. Yay!
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I think they forgot last.fm
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wooo hoo woxy!
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i'm with nick. hype machine is the shit. (they got pub in rolling stone's 1000th anniversary issue, so i guess that's cool...)
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Last.fm?!
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Wow, you did slam pitchfork... good work. You guys are better than them by a mile. But where is last.fm, buddyhead's blog and fluxblog? There's a few on there I've never even heard of! Oh well.
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Stereogum for president~!
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nice job stereogum, congrats
but what about last.fm? I love their player, way better than pandora, I can't believe it's not even on the list
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Way to go, Stereogum. Glad to see eMusic right up there, too.
AC
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What's eventually going to flatten and overhype all the great blogs are lists like these from such well respected magazines. Music media is basically trying to push everyone against Pitchfork which I totally get. I don't know anyone who truly loves Pitchfork, but I also don't know a single music fan that could live without it. Anyway, it's totally fucking cool that someone decided to place Stereogum at #7. Where the hell is GvB?
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Last.fm has to be on the list! They are an incredible project for discovering and cataloging music that people like.
Observer Music Monthly has a better list: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1729834,00.html
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Who gives a shit what Entertainment Weekly says? I guess there's schadenfreude in Pitchfork being rated so low, but this reeks of some kind of inferiority complex by whomever put this list together. Sure, Pitchfork can be unbearably pretentious at times, but there's not a better resource for music on the web. Or there wasn't enough pop coverage on the site to justify a high ranking - but then, why is Stereogum so high? Pitchfork has a good relationship with just about every major indie act today - I learned a bit more about Sufjan Stevens from their actual interview with him than Stereogum's just slinking off behind him at some concert. Pitchfork, if not lovable, is certainly essential.
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unfortunately... the observer list works more for me too.
drownedinsound, resonance, wikipedia and last.fm are quite important to me.
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Am I alone in having never really found a new band I liked on Pandora? The website seems to work a lot better in theory than in practice, at least in my experience.
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Lucky Number Seven! Nice!!! Congrats...and, I too was wondering about last.fm.
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Joe = my hero
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While it's to be awesome #7 on the list, no one seems to have mentioned that stereogum is the the #1 music blog on the list. It's the highest-rated non corporate site (outside the Live Music Archive)That's fucking awesome guys. Congratulations Scott and crew!
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www.pitchfork.com is not a good music site... i was expecting to hear the newest gossip on radiohead- instead, i found out about adverts and barns.
DOWN WITH PITCHFORK.COM!!!1!!!eleven!!!
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to reiterate what's already been said a few thousand times, i agree that last.fm would've been nice
but it's even nicer that stereogum made it... well done
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Congrats on #7! I think http://www.kevchino.com should be on too!
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where's brooklynvegan.com? that's the most informative site on the internets.
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needs more hipinion.com
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Last.fm is the only possible #1! Sorry.
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wait. stereogum is a music site? how about that.
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Maybe I'm ignorant here but is there some reason allmusic.com isn't on there? It's to music what imdb.com is for movies, how can it NOT be considered?
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pandora stinks...i put in sunset rubdown and they recommended scott weilands solo cd. wtf?!
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That list is just
a list of Viacom / Warner Brother / AOL / music industry webpages directory.
That has nothing to do with "Music website" let alone "Best music website"
the goal of that list is obviously making people "BUY" stuff from entertainment weekly associates corporations.
It's pretty transparent. It's not informing/entertaining the people. It's advertisement in guise of informing.
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where the heck is popmatter???!
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned my personal favorite, Large Hearted Boy.
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congrats!
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Hey, congratulations! You're pretty high up on that list! It's well deserved.
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Congrats Steregoum!
The title is "The 25 Best Music Websites", but then in the intro it says "See Entertainment Weekly's picks for where to pick up on hot new tunes".
If it's a matter of what sites clue readers into the latest music, I'd have Pfork higher. Although people love to hate them they due to write up new bands faster than any other one site consistently.
If the article were actually about "Best Music Websites", I'd definitely add Allmusic and Billboard.
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Congrats Steregoum!
The title is "The 25 Best Music Websites", but then in the intro it says "See Entertainment Weekly's picks for where to pick up on hot new tunes".
If it's a matter of what sites clue readers into the latest music, I'd have Pfork higher. Although people love to hate them they do write up new bands faster than any other one site consistently.
If the article were actually about "Best Music Websites", I'd definitely add Allmusic and Billboard.
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I like Stylus. Its articles have much more effort put into them then most others on the internet.
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I agree that ALLMUSIC.COM needs to be on there, and should probably be #1.
MySpace should be #2 after that.
what about Coolfer?
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you must be rich, scotty.
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Maybe it is a bit corporate, but whatevs; it's cool to see Stereogum on there (you definitely deserve to be on any list, I say). I used to love Audioscrobbler before it went under, and I think they were affiliated with last.fm. i haven't checked last.fm out, though.
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What about me?, kidding
http://ultra8201.blogspot.com
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the 'listen again' feature on steve lamaque's page on bbc radio is pretty tasty (the documentaries and ever-recent live sets are a godsend). Anyone know a way to get those sort of things into an mp3 format? bootleg heaven.
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Yay for stereogum and eMusic! well deserved listings there.
I'd agree that Hype Machine was overlooked. plus: what, no http://20jazzfunkgreats.blogspot.com/ ?
re the OMM list -- what the fuck, coolhunting.com at #3? roffles. great if you live in London and want to keep ahead of the other Nathan Barleys, I suppose, but this list here seems to have a bit more *music* involved.
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HYPE MACHINE BITCHES!!
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allmusic is good for some things, but their current electronic coverage sucks...
they don't even have a bio for booka shade or mandy...ugh.
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I love how everyone picked up on the pitchfork.com linkage, but no one noticed where stereogum leads...thanks k-fed
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last.fm will suck as long as it continues to compile the group stats the way it does. listen-to.com had a much better format for that.
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this is RIVETING news...
OVER-RATED
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congrats, scott! i think they probably refer to all the podcasts connected to itunes... just a guess.
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Allmusic.com. Best music site period. Who cares if I can't get the cookies to work to listen to clips of music, it's still amazingly informational.
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Where's Stylus Magazine? It's a million times better than Pitchfart.
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hey i just saw that mag tonight and i wrote all the sites that i found interesting in the little memo pad in my cell phone. now that you've linked them all...it's much more convenient. i didn't think stereogum was that popular but i guess it is! congrats :)
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this is kind of not a huge deal, but i would technically categorize itunes a website as well as an application, considering you can copy URLs.
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Leaving allmusic.com off the list is inexcusable. And if they do this list again in 2 years, The Hype Machine just might be #1.
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congrats stereogum -- you guys are on my favorites on the web. nice to have something other than music reviews to waste away my first three hours at work with. i have to say, however, that all the pitchfork backlash is ridiculous..."yeah, i'm so ahead of the scene". get over it douchebags; fact is, pitchfork is still the best music website on the web, without a doubt. don't even get me started on stylus, that steaming shitpile of a website, with its endless reviews of new scandinavian doom-metal albums that are set to "send your shit scrambling back to your asshole!" i feel way better now.
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that last post was supposed to read "one of my favorites," and not the pretentious sounding, "on my favorites".
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Pandora is great, the one thing lacking with Pandora is the fixed size/style of the player. I did a few mockups of vertical layouts of the player. I posted them on my blog:
http://3e-lab.com/blog/05/10/biz/pandora-mini-player-revised-layout-idea/
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I've got to agree with the other folks here that the omission of Last.fm was a terrible oversight. Of all the sites listed here, Last.fm is the only one that has consistently helped me discover new music that I really like.
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