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.

• Complete Music Update

  Music industry legal news coverage. Live industry news including ticketing, venues, festivals and more. Digital services and platforms news.

• 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.

• Discogs

  Discover music on Discogs, the largest online music database. Buy and sell music with collectors in the Marketplace.

• Ear To The Ground

  Features emerging artists primarily in the folk, indie rock, and roots music scenes.

• 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.

• Hypebot

  Daily news and commentary on the music industry, technology, and social media for music industry professionals, indie labels, and DIY musicians.

• Indie Is Not A Genre

  Started with a purpose: to not trust the hype. A statement in support of independent and DIY artists against the notion that indie is just a prefix major labels use to sell records.

• Indie Shuffle

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Pop Dust

  Finds the most talented performers and the best new stuff so you do not have to sort through the noise yourself.

• 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.

• Under The Radar

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