If you mean like review sites or sites that showcase music (not like.. spotify for grooveshark right, not streaming/playing sites?) then I have a couple that I like to check out when I'm interested in new bands or whatever. These are mostly just indie rock so if that's not your thing you probably wont be interested:

KEXP Radio: http://www.youtube.com/user/kexpradio

Radio station in Seattle, there's some good bands here occasionally. They come play live in the station so it's pretty cool to me.. I like live music. Definitely hipster/indie though.

La Blogotheque: http://www.youtube.com/user/LaBlogotheque

Both of these are just youtube channels but... I don't like to read reviews usually I just want to listen to it and decide for myself if I groove on it. Blogotheque is cool, live impromptu shows. There have been a lot of decent people playing on there, some more or less famous. Pretty good though. These bands tend to be more low-key than KEXP though that's mostly because they are always acoustic sets.

The Wild Honey Pie: http://www.thewildhoneypie.com/

These guys have more writings/reviews and intros to new stuff instead of videos, though there's usually always a stream/media player of some kind. Easily the most hipster but I find some decent bands here. There's a club here in Vegas called The Griffin (Griffon?) that's really cool, it's like all dark and wood and there's a bunch of fireplaces and stuff. The place is really awesome and for some reason a bunch of the music on there just reminds me of that place. Like I found this song on there and it embodies the spirit of that perfectly and I guess I really dig it... it makes me want to get drunk and smoke a bunch of cigarettes in the dark with a bunch of sweaty kids packed around me... good times. I miss that place.


So yeah those tend to be the places I check up on every week or two to see if there's anything new that catches my attention. I recently found this band The Joy Formidable on KEXP and I liked em a lot (if you watch that video doesn't she seem a little crazy? In a good way, but definitely crazy), got their album and it's surprisingly decent all the way through.


I found Fang Island on KEXP too and I fell in love with that song for a long time. That performance is the best version of that song I've heard, it's better than the album version.

That's definitely true. Joy Formidable has a female vocalist and I tend to not like female vocalists because they always try to sing too hard and it doesn't make sense (like evenesence i dont even care to spell it right). But yeah I enjoyed her vocals.

I know what you mean though. I haven't really been into a "type" of music in a while, i've been drifting between old stuff like Beirut, Portugal The Man, some metal stuff and some classical stuff... not even sure. Just all over the place for me.

I am really interested in music journalism and it's the main reason I became a journalist. In fact I remember doing some of my first few articles here for the GW Blog amongst other places. Steel used to recommend me some good websites, some of which I still check to this day.

Your criticisms of Pitchfork are fair. I usually follow particular writers and ignore others. They tend to jump on bands just because of hype or conceived hype a lot of times. You've really got to pick and choose. Sometimes Sputnikmusic is better because of the viewers vote on the record so you get a more general score.

This my favorite website - www.passionweiss.com and they have excellent writing, a lack of elitism and a sense of humor. They write a lot about rap music but you'll also find electronica, indie, funk, etc there.

Here's two great examples:

http://passionweiss.com/2012/03/22/question-in-the-form-of-an-answer-ka/

http://passionweiss.com/2012/05/04/rip-mca-adam-yauch-nathaniel-hornblower-1964-2012/

I've recently been lucky enough to start writing for them, but I was a fan of the site long before then.

Check out some of my writing too:

www.jimmyness.com

Examples:

Joe Satriani interview: http://www.jimmyness.com/2011/10/joe-satriani-interview.html

Killer Mike interview: http://www.jimmyness.com/2012/07/killer-mike-interview.html

I also like:

http://www.thetape.us/

Yeah I thought that might give you the wrong first impression too so I was going to post it later, but you are an adult and can see they posted that one just cause they felt like it and enjoyed the song. Read the text for example:

At the risk of getting this site blocked at your place of employment, here’s another fairly NSFW video, this time from booty-house purveyors Hot City. I’d write some pseudo-intellectual justification for this one but frankly, I just like watching Japanese girls on exercise equipment while listening to booty-house. Don’t blame me, it’s muggy as hell and my own dayjob is killing me.; factors that actively discourage ruminating over the rap hype cycle and and actively encourage anything post 2-Live crew. Can I get an amen (break)?

If you don`t like the video just scroll down and check out what else has been posted. They rarely post NSFW music videos and I`m sure you agree it would be a bit prude to ignore all of the brilliant criticism on the website because you saw a music video with boobies.

Just watched that music video Jamie, it was quite random haha but pretty much what you expect from the booty house genre. the other stuff is good though. Erykah Badu above it and the indepth Beastie Boys mixtape underneath for example