PUBLIC MARKS with tags music & reviews

"Similar to RateYourMusic, except Discogs caters more towards DJs, with an incredible database of music, especially club and other electronic music. I've got an account there, under the same name." [SwimTwoBirds]

"MP3 Insider is a blog and weekly podcast created by CNET's MP3 technology experts, Donald Bell and Jasmine France. Each week, Jasmine and Donald discuss the latest digital music (and video) news, hardware, software, and media services, and address reader calls and e-mail."

Reviews * Music * DVDs * Live Shows * Cinema * TV * Books * Comic Books * Video Games Interviews * Music * Cinema * TV * Comic Books

"Trouser Press, online here since August 2002, began with the contents of all five Trouser Press Record Guides, those highly opinionated review books of alternative rock. Thanks to many fine contributors, the site now includes loads of new and updated entries — more than 3,000 in all. While it's by no means definitive, we're working to catch up and keep up. (Hit the What's New button to see what's been added recently.) There's a message board for sharing your thoughts about music and more. The Trouser Press Magazine button takes you to a cover archive with anecdotes about the issues and a complete index to the magazine's decade-long run. And for the truly devoted, we've got TP merch for sale."

Prices for music CD's (new or used, with short previews and reviews), MP3 downloads, and DVD's at Amazon and other stores.

CD HotList is a monthly review service offered exclusively by Baker & Taylor to the library community. Selections are divided into Classical, Country/Folk, Jazz, Rock/Pop, World/Ethnic.

Allmusic.com offers discographies and biographical information for both artists and composers, and gives ratings and reviews of recordings, past and current. Very useful for weeding. Also lists recently released CDs. [icpl.org] Mac users (Safari): In order to play audio samples, you will need to install a free plug-in called Flip4Mac, available at www.telestream.net/telestream-products/desktop-products.htm.

new music

Search results are well organized. Google shows all albums and even all songs (if you prefer). Has links to reviews from all over the web.

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"I recently downloaded the SXSW 2008 torrent file, which contains nearly 48 continuous hours of music from 763 acts appearing this week at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas (these bands elected to give away MP3s; they represent less than half of the total number of acts). I found myself wondering how to locate the songs worth hearing, and imagined that others were having the same problem. Thus, the 763 reviews you’ll find below. For brevity, I kept each to exactly six words."

Here’s Tristan Prettyman’s cover of the song “New Soul.” You’ll probably recognize it from the Macbook Air commercial.

After the relative pop success that was 1973, James Bland er, Blunt is back to his usual form. That is, caterwauling empty lyrics over a nice acoustic backing.

作曲是非瞬間的全面即興，而即興只不過是瞬間的局部作曲。而即使是所謂的「重播」，其播放之內容本身極可能就是現場即興的記錄。說穿了，我們和李君所渴望的，應該只是更好的作曲／創作本身，而無關乎播放或演奏。