Recommendations for sources of good music/CD reviews

Posted by: NPR on 13 March 2014

I'm looking to get any recommendations for good music magazines (in the UK) (or even on the web)  that cover a wide selection of music / cd reviews. Most of them I've found tend to be very genre specific (classical, Jazz, Blues, etc).

I've looked at many of the usual suspects like Q  Magazine, NME,  MOJO, Rolling Stone, etc, but not found one I've found to be really entertaining and informative. 

 

Appreciate any suggestions worthy of tracking down.

thanks

 

Posted on: 13 March 2014 by dave4jazz

AllMusic.com - the best online source for artist information and album reviews.

Posted on: 13 March 2014 by Kevin-W

The Quietus. It's what the UK music press was like when it was actually good.

 

 

Posted on: 13 March 2014 by Tony2011
Originally Posted by dave4jazz:

       

AllMusic.com - the best online source for artist information and album reviews.


       

+1. Rovi is also pretty good as a database/review.
Posted on: 13 March 2014 by NPR

Thanks for the suggestions so far, briefly had a look both Quietus and AllMusic and both appear to be good sources for reviews.. thank you.

 

Tony, does Rovi have direct web access somewhere ?   I have only ever seen it via nStream info for individual albums.

Posted on: 13 March 2014 by Tony2011

Rovi is also available through the SoundHound(app) which I use occasionally.

AllMusic is not perfect but offers an excellent music database including some very obscure material from  all four corners of the globe.

Posted on: 13 March 2014 by NPR

Thanks Tony, I'll take a look.

Posted on: 14 March 2014 by dis

http://pitchfork.com/

Best reviews on the 'net...for my taste anyway...

Posted on: 17 March 2014 by Bruce Woodhouse

Pitchforkmedia for me too. I sometimes disagree wildly but usually interesting and informative.

 

Bruce 

Posted on: 24 March 2014 by NPR

Thank all for the suggestions, some good sources I'd never heard of until now !

 

Thanks

Posted on: 24 March 2014 by Bert Schurink

I have a couple of different sources:

 

For progressive rock:

http://www.dprp.net/index.php

 

For jazz:

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/

 

For classical multiple - not always independent sources like:

http://sinfinimusic.com/uk

 

 

Posted on: 25 March 2014 by NPR

Thanks Bert for those suggestions 

Posted on: 26 March 2014 by dis

http://www.metacritic.com/music

is an interesting one - collates reviews from lots of other sites and averages the rating to give a score.

has the links to all reviews used.

Posted on: 26 March 2014 by NPR

Thanks dis, that looks useful to get a brief summary then to be able to explore the review further from its source review..  thanks