tell me when you find one lol

no but really, what is GOOD?  So much of music is subjective, not just in terms of quality, but in terms of TASTE.  even in a good publication, unless they completely matched your tastes all the time, you'd probably regularly not care for the shit they praise.  or maybe you'd like it a lot and they'd call it shit.  so if you're looking for reliable reviews, basically i'm saying i think they're all kind of worthless and you should just listen for yourself, even if something gets shitty reviews.

but if you're talking about just STAYING ABREAST then idk, it depends on what you're into.  i use pitchfork to keep posted on INDIE ROCK//OTHER WHITEGUY MUSIC because honestly, they cover like everything that comes out in that scene, and if you ignore their shitty reviews, they're not a bad site for just CONTENT.  i don't use it so much now that i'm kind of getting out of that stuff, though.  there's probably some hip hop equivalent, too.  when it comes to old music, though, you're kind of fucked i think.  like very few publications talk about the chameleons or wipers or marine girls or wire or teardrop explodes or any other shit that is basically pre-current scene with any consistency.  what you have to do at that point is find music blogs run by good taste and just kind of go by what they upload and if you like it, find more stuff like that!  there's that one internet radio site that is like IF YOU LIKE THIS, CHCK THIS OUT that's pretty good, too (at least this is what people say!).

that's basically how i got a lot my music.  i would read a lot of blogs or look up reviews of older albums and if i liked them i would look into more shit form that scene.  like my reading about young marble giants, giving them a listen, and realizing i liked them a lot led me to look them up and be exposed other post-punk genre as a whole.  whenever you can find a specific band that you're really into, it's pretty easy to find sites or forums or whatever where people talk about them and bands similar to them, most of which you've probably never heard of, and that is a great source.  like i was on rapidshare looking for a chameleons album when i found a topic linking the one i was looking for AND a bunch of other shit and it turns out most of it was good, and that is how i got into wire.  basically try to find people with similar tastes and see what other stuff they listen to.

pandas kind of talking bizarre. I use Dusted for my INDIE ROCK NEEDS but there are loads of old time music blogs out there. there's cocaine blunts for hiphop, etc.

my lihnks.......they're all falling out of my head...

i said use blogs!

steel for someone that is so big on TASTE i am surprised how much you like rap considering it has waaayyyyy more shit  then quality available out there

like there is a lot of good in the genre but idk you just dont strike me HUP HOP GUY

what does this even mean?  what genre ISNT filled mostly with throwaway acts?  steel strikes me as a very hip hop guy so maybe you just dont know steel!!!

i think the large majority of mainstream music in general is exploited and shallow.  what's more, you have years of pretty awesome rap before it devolved into what it is now, and you still have multiple underground hip hop scenes right now, which the same thing can hardly be said of.  talking about mainstream rap is one thing, but extending that to all current hip hop is grossly inaccurate, especially when you have genres like pop-punk, which in addition to be exploited and shallow, are entirely commercial and do not even have an indie scene you can refer to for higher quality.

welp you gotta look at the fact that steel is a v socially conscious person and if there has been a type of music in the past two decades that has been really SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS, it is gangsta rap.  idk i don't see how the connection between him and acts like public enemy and tupac are so hard to understand when he walks around posting about racial oppression all the time.