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critical pages
editor's picks :
Jaded
Insider ,
Hits ,
EW:Music ,
Pop Candy
blogs: Listen
Up ,
Pop Junkie ,
AOL
Music news ,
Pop
Life
mp3 blogs: InSound ,
Fufkin ,
Pop Zine
books: Sonata
For Jukebox by Geoffrey
O'Brien
Klosterman
IV by Chuck Klosterman
Sharon
Osbourne Extreme by Sharon Osbourne
charts: Billboard ,
Building
Album ,
Newbury
Comics ,
USA Today
zines: Poplicks ,
Pop
Culture Madness ,
Much More Music
streams: Launchcast ,
Live365 ,
pandora
ref: About Top 40 ,
Answers ,
Infoplease ,
AMG
misc: MTV ,
AOL
Music, Yahoo!Music ,
PopDirt,
World Music News
rock
editor's picks :
Arthur ,
Coolfer ,
Idolator ,
mi2n
mp3 blogs: mp3 s,
Hypemachine ,
rockcritics.com ,
Aquarium
Drunkard
books: Amazon ,
Powells ,
half.com
charts: Billboard ,
Int'l ,
Yahoo!
zines: Pitchfork ,
popmatters ,
FreakyTrig ,
R&R Report
misc: Rock
on TV
radio: Pandora ,
Fillmore
Concert Vault ,
last.fm ,
radioblogclub
ref: Wikipedia ,
All
Music Guide ,
Rough
swap sites: lala ,
Titletrader ,
Zunafish
torrents: mininova ,
TorrentDirectory ,
Demonoid
used CDs: ebay ,
half.com ,
Gemm
web 2.0: del.icio.us ,
digg ,
listible ,
simpy ,
Web2list ,
neobinaries
misc: rockcriticslinks ,
Rock's
Back Pages ,
ilx
editor's picks: indie911 ,
last.fm
blogs: AltRock
Source ,
About ,
Amazon
2006 ,
books: Rip
It Up by Simon Reynolds
Spin
Alternative Record Guide by Eric Weisbard
Our
Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
charts: CMJ
Radio 200 ,
GarageBand ,
BBC
1
zines: Black
Velvet [
links ],
FreakyTrig
streams: Pandora ,
last.fm ,
radioblogclub
ref: Wikipedia ,
All
Music Guide ,
Kill
From the Heart
swap sites: lala ,
Titletrader ,
Zunafish
torrents: mininova ,
TorrentDirectory
used CDs: ebay ,
half.com ,
Gemm ,
Spun
web 2.0: del.icio.us ,
simpy ,
Web2list ,
neobinaries
misc: rockcriticslinks ,
Rock's
Back Pages ,
ilx
editor's picks: Can't
Stop Won't Stop ,
Hip
Hop archives ,
HipHopSite ,
Rap
Dictionary ,
HopHop-Directory ,
RapMusic
blogs: Highbridnation ,
HipHopBlogs ,
SOHH
blogs
books: Can't
Stop Won't Stop by Jeff Chang
And
It Don't Stop: Best Hip-Hop Journalism
by Nelson George
Yes
Yes Y'All by Jim Fricke
charts: GarageBand ,
AudioStreet ,
Soundclick
zines: ProHipHop
ref: Wikipedia ,
All
Music Guide
editor's picks :
BNR ,
Metal
Links ,
Metal
Rules ,
Encyclopaedia
Metallum
blogs: JustJared ,
WhoDigs ,
SecondPeriod
books: Fargo
Rock City by
Chuck Klosterman
Hammer
of the Gods by Stephen Davis
Encyclopedia
of Heavy Metal by Daniel Bukszpan
charts: GarageBand ,
AudioStreet ,
Soundclick
radio: HardRadio ,
Heavy
Metal Radio ,
Snake
Metal Radio
zines: HML
links ,
Heavy
Metal Universe ,
Blabbermouth ,
The
Gauntlet ,
Revelation
Z
ref: Wikipedia ,
All
Music Guide
editor's picks :
Google:
britpop ,
No Ordinary Music ,
blank
blogs: Torontoist ,
Bowlie ,
Britpop! ,
Bandito
books:
Britpop!: Cool Britannia and the Spectacular Demise
of English Rock by
John Harris
Britpop by MJ, Gunn
Take
Me There by Paul Mather
charts: UK ,
hit40uk ,
EuroPop
streams: Shredding
Radio ,
UK streams ,
Radio
Luxembourg
ref: Wikipedia ,
All
Music Guide ,
BBC ,
What is Britpop?
shopping: 2009 rock/pop
album of the month:
Chris Potter Ultrahang (ArtistShare)
recent picks:
Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi
the-dream Love vs. money
Lily Allen It's Not Me It's You
Oxford American10th Anniversary Edition
Bob Dylan Tell Tale Signs (Sony BMG)
Walter Becker Circus Money (Mailboat Records)
Beck Modern Guilt (Interscope)
Al Green Lay It Down (Blue Note)
Erykah Badu New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War (Motown) Portishead Third (Mercury)
Carlene Carter Stronger (Yep Roc)
Punch Brothers Punch (Nonesuch)
Waco Brothers Waco Express: Live and Kickin' at Schuba's (Bloodshot)
Steve Malkmus & the Jicks Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
recent picks:
Gig Posters: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century , by Clay Hayes (Quirk)
The Song Is You , by Arthur Phillips
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music , by Tom Gioia Oxford American 10th Anniversary Southern Music Issue
There's A Riot Goin' On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars and the Rise and Fall of '60s Counter-Culture , by Peter Doggett (Canongate)
Re-make/Re-model: Becoming Roxy Music , by Michael Bracewell (Da Capo)
Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance , by Dean Wareham (Penguin) Roadwork: Rock & Roll Turned Inside Out by Tom Wright (Hal Leonard)
Creem: America's Only Rock'n'Roll Magazine by Rogbert Matheu (Collins)
Can't Buy Me Love
by Jonathan Gould (Harmony)
Perfect From Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life
by John Sellers
Recording the Beatles
by Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music
by Hugh Barker and Yuval TaylorShout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe by Gayle F. Wald Blue
Monday Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock'n'Roll
by Rick Coleman
Everything
I'm Cracked Up To Be by Jen Trynin
White Bicycles: Making Music in the Sixties by Joe Boyd
Always Magic in the Air by Ken Emerson
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