Media

Blogs, radio, and music news worth your time.

• Alt Citizen

  NYC based music and culture blog and zine.

• Aquarium Drunkard

  An eclectic audio journal focused on daily reviews, interviews, features, podcasts, and sessions. Digging globally, bridging contemporary sounds with psych, jazz, avant-garde, folk, garage, funk and beyond. For heads, by heads.

• BrooklynVegan

  Living in New York, this one is hard to avoid. Good mix of local shows, touring acts, and wider music culture. Keeps you connected to what is happening around the city.

• Cougar Microbes

  London based music site with fierce loyalty to the British scene and a keen ear to what is going on globally. Contributors hail from Los Angeles, Tel Aviv, and Milan.

• For The Rabbits

  Thoughtful London-based writing on alternative music, with a particularly good ear for indie-folk, bedroom pop and new voices.

• GoldFlakePaint

  Warm, attentive writing and carefully made mixes from a small independent publication still driven by the joy of finding a song.

• Gorilla vs Bear

  An MP3 blog for independent music, videos, news, and reviews from all genres.

• Hype Machine

  The place for the best new music. Every day, thousands of people around the world write about music they love and it all ends up here.

• Indie Shuffle

  Humans are better than robots when it comes to music discovery.

• Les Oreilles Curieuses

  French independent music blog sharing eclectic discoveries across indie rock, electronic music and emerging francophone artists.

• Louder Than War

  The UK's award-winning music and culture website. Latest music news, reviews, interviews, and features with a focus on international punk rock and pop culture.

• Pan African Music

  Bilingual independent magazine exploring contemporary and archival music from Africa and its worldwide diaspora.

• Pigeons & Planes

  Music discovery site from COMPLEX. New music and news updated daily, ranging from hip-hop and pop to indie rock and electronic.

• Pitchfork

  One of the most influential music publications online. Reviews, news, features, and the occasional career-making 10.0.

• Post-Trash

  Independent New York publication digging into DIY, post-punk, experimental music and the records thriving beyond the mainstream.

• Raven Sings the Blues

  A deeply personal guide to psychedelic rock, spiritual jazz and overlooked records, written from New York's Hudson Valley.

• So Young Magazine

  Independent illustrated magazine documenting the bands, artists and grassroots venues shaping Britain's next wave.

• Stereogum

  Still one of the more consistent indie voices out there. A bit of everything — news, opinion, and new music — but it rarely feels disposable.

• The FADER

  The definitive voice of music and the lifestyle that surrounds it.

• The Line of Best Fit

  Consistently good at surfacing emerging artists early, especially across the UK and Europe. One of those sites where you can dip in quickly or spend an hour and still come out with something new.

• The Quietus

  Independent British criticism with a serious appetite for adventurous, experimental and genuinely underground music.

• Under The Radar

  Indie music magazine printing two to three issues a year, distributed across North America and internationally. The solution to music pollution.