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    Posted: September 16 2013 at 03:00
Time to resurrect this thread: Another webzine that people here might find interesting is Lurker's Path, which covers avant-garde and underground music in several different genres, being a major inspiration for Black Ivory Tower. Just like BIT it started out as metal webzines but now also covers electronic/industrial, post-rock, prog/psych, punk, singer-songwriter etc.


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i like Sputnik Music ant RYM, Amazon, PA, Metal-archives, and other.
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Thing is, in the last couple years my taste in prog rock has drifted further away from most of the big US/UK names and more into avant-garde + Krautrock. Not to mention of course prog electronic stuff becoming a bigger and bigger part of my musical listening habits. When looking at the covers of Prog Magazine it's rarer and rarer I see a headline that intrigues me. 
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Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

I occasionally buy Mojo when they have some kind of in-depth feature about an artist I'm a major fan of. Never bought Prog, though.
I enjoy reading Prog Rock mag though they tend to focus on the bigger names and second tier artists but at times they do get into more obscure bands and the reviews section is always pretty good.
The one I just bought has a piece on 1973  and the big prog lps that came out that year.
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I occasionally buy Mojo when they have some kind of in-depth feature about an artist I'm a major fan of. Never bought Prog, though.
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Does anyone still read Mojo and Prog Rock mag...?
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I check Progstreaming.com and AllMusic several times a week--that's where I get to listen to stuff before deciding whether or not to buy it. 

YouTube, too. 

Progulator, ProgressoR, Ground and Sky, ProgressiveEars, Progfreak, Prognossis,  Sea of Tranquility, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, and even Progrock.com are others I might check every week or so. Also Musea Records, AltrOck/Fading Records, and The NJProghouse to drool over the events they sponsor there.
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I also occasionally visit The Quietus, but for artist interviews rather than record reviews. The most useful probably being Baker's Dozen features where individual musicians name their 13 most influential albums.
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,
 
NONE!
 
Not even PA!
Pretty much me as well.
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I check these music websites nearly every day (and usually in this order):

Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/ ----- this one's an electronic music site
Consequence of Sound: http://consequenceofsound.net/
Tiny Mix Tapes: http://www.tinymixtapes.com/ ------ although the site's become quite boring lately...
Stereogum: http://www.stereogum.com/ ---- which today has a leaked mp3 of the new James Murphy-produced Arcade Fire single! 

Plus I check other sites fairly often: The Wire (http://www.thewire.co.uk/), Guardian's culture page (which includes music, tv and film, books: http://www.theguardian.com/culture).

Probably more I should be looking at...


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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,
 
NONE!

I guessed correctly. 
 
LOL
 
IF ... and this is a big IF ... you ever wanted to become one of the musicians ... and 40 years later people are remembering your music ... what do you think you have to do and would like to learn from?
 
Checking out the DIFFERENT things many of these bands did, would help ... and how no one else was doing it ... and that means ... you have to learn to check yourself and yourself and yourself ...
 
Or as David Ossman of the Firesign Theater said once ... I know who I have to know ... ME!
 
And then you have to decide!
 
Good luck!
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I only frequent PA as far as prog music ideas online ...but I read Mojo, Rolling Stone , and Progressive Rock Mag on a regular basis.
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Points: 20702 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2013 at 14:46
Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,
 
NONE!

I guessed correctly. 
 
LOL
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By the way, I forgot to mention that I'm somewhat surprised by the many mentions of AllMusic. Their generalist approach means they can't go in as much depth as a genre-specialist site like this one. It's two very different ways to go about reviewing.

Their "Related Artists" tab is rather useful for seeing who's influenced who when you're too lazy to look up artist interviews however. (which I am often! LOL)
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Points: 23147 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 02 2013 at 09:51
Anthony Fantano is the name! Yeah rings a bell. Tbh, I only watched a few of his reviews after that Bisch Bosch one he did, which I found rather entertaining. Dork? Maybe, but I gather most of the real music fans out there fall under that exact same description...
Gotta say, I stopped following the Black Metal scene some 10 years ago, so I wouldn't know about the current trend of haters out there. I would imagine that crowd, if they're anything like the previous that is, would turn their noses down a guy like Fantano for openly admitting to enjoying music with more than 3 chords involved.
The only "Black Metal" act I follow these days plays a dark and industrialized form of noise Krautrock. They're French and called Aluk Todolo. Pretty good if you're looking for a way to scare the living daylights out of your neighbours.
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 02 2013 at 09:37
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

I frequent RYM, Julian Cope's Head Heritage, Allmusic, JMA and recently I've watched a few YouTube reviews with that guy from the needledrop whatshisname (He did one on Scott Walker's Bisch Bosch which I thought was pretty cool). Anyway, I tend to stick with PA most of the time. Some terrific writers up in this mo'.

Anthony Fantano is a huge dork but I generally like watching his reviews. Cal is cool though.
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Points: 5898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 02 2013 at 09:11
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

I've watched a few YouTube reviews with that guy from the needledrop whatshisname (He did one on Scott Walker's Bisch Bosch which I thought was pretty cool).


The mysterious Dutchman who runs the Black Ivory Tower metal webzine really really hates that Needledrop guy. To the point that he's got an Anti-Tony Fantano banner on his Welcome Page (modelled on the legendary black metal record label Deathlike Silence Productions' anti-Scott Burns banner) and called Fantano a "deluded nerd" in his review for Peste Noire's second LP.
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Allmusic quite often, especially for non-prog.
Sometimes TalkClassical for classical music.
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,
 
NONE!

I guessed correctly. 
New album!
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385
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Points: 18697 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 01 2013 at 13:44
Hi,
 
NONE!
 
Not even PA!
 
Though I do accept suggestions to listen to things, but I will not read any reviews as they interfere with my own appreciation. AFTER the listen, I might check out some reviews, but not before ... EVER!
 
There are some folks here on PA that I trust and their music knowledge is too good to not appreciate a suggestion and where it came from! But it does not, in any way, say that I will go listen to things just because they said it, just like they would not either just because I said it.
 
You have to have a clear mindset, if you are going to learn something about "progressive" music ... if you don't ... you are only looking for a detail or a title of some sort, and you are not even into music!
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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