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If you’re just looking for MP3s, then the Internet’s music aggregate blogs are your playground (visit elbo.ws to find a few). Weeding out the handful of music writers with smart opinions and good taste from the zillions of yahoos in the blogosphere isn’t quite as easy. For that reason, we tend to default to blogs either written by folks who are already music pros or upstarts with solid track records.
Idolator.com The music arm of the Gawker media empire is as biting and fun as its sister blogs, in no small part due to editor Maura Johnston, who was briefly a Chicagoan back when she attended Northwestern University. The blog’s “Who Charted” column appeals to our inner seventh-graders every time.
Radiofreechicago.org, gapersblock.com/transmission We particularly like these two Chicago blogs because they’re collaborative efforts, with multiple writers contributing news items, interviews, live reviews and much more. The staffs are smart, in touch with the local scene and offer an abundance of content.
Nightafternight.blogs.com We’d read the thoughtful and sonically omnivorous blog of Time Out New York associate Music editor Steve Smith even if we didn’t work for the same company. Whether he’s blogging about classical, jazz or metal, he always turns us on to new sounds.
—Antonia Simigis
Becca
Thu, Jan 24, at 11:26am
I actually didn't care for bookslut.com. I really wanted to like it, but if you take a closer look at the reviews of the science books, she keeps saying that she's not a scientist, blah, blah, blah. The way in which she reviews these books is "I'm not a scientist, but...", I wish that she would hire a science major (maybe not a Ph.D or something), but someone who can speak to both the educated biologist/physicist/chemist AND the everyman interested in scientific pop literature.
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