What Are Your Sources?
 

Certain members here (ex: Moon Pix, Urban Hatemonger, Cardboard Adolescent) seem to have fairly vast storehouses of knowledge when it comes to music. Many of you guys are incredibly well versed in multitudes of genres (or rather, subgenres of Rock mainly) and seem to have a very solid sense of music history. I used to be fairly comparable, but I haven't been reading up on things as voraciously as I used to, so I've lost touch a bit with what's new, and forgotten a lot of what I knew about the past. I guess I feel a bit out of my depth here sometimes, and I'd like to catch up. So what I'm asking is...where do you guys get information about music? Are there certain magazines, books, particular writers that you find very valuable? Even single articles would be of great use to me if there's a link to them online.

To get things rolling...here's a link to one of my favorite pieces of rock criticism: http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/v...ws/astral.html

I've learned everything I know from musicbanter and various members, paticular ArtistInTheAmbulance, A_Perfect_Sonnet, and Franscar.

i find things by looking. through crap.
AKA i don't use sources, except other bands.

urban hatemonger, right- track, and crowquill (beleive it or not)

i don't have relly enougth money, or much variation where i currently live on music, all i hear is the generic pop and rap bullshiit, and southern rock, not my favorites granted i like classic rock, gothic music and japanese rock/metal

Allmusic.com is probably the best site.
I raid sharing threads on a few forums a lot of the time i`ll just download something without even knowing what it is ,sometimes i`ll go to blogs stuffed full of downloads.Occasionally i`ll download a torrent with anything from 10-20 new releases on it , go through it & just delete what I don`t like.

As well as that i`ll listen to influences of bands I like , read autobiographies , biographies , listen to other people , and have about 20 years of reading music magazines stored in my head.Up until recently I had every copy of Melody Maker from 1993-1999 until I ran out of room & chucked them out.

Books.
Here.
Last.fm.
Wikipedia.


Occasionally I'll find a random torrent and give it a listen.
Most of the music I get into, I get told about by people. (I.E: Ethan.)

Buy as many albums as possible and read the booklets and also look at other artists that sound like them.

So much from allmusic. I also have a subscription to Wire and I do get quite a bit out of MusicBanter. I also quite enjoy markprindle.com, and I do occasionally find out about new music from people in real life (gasp) such as my friends, and, believe it or not, teachers.

They have a life :yikes:

^ yeah i have teacher like that, a few were still asses though