What Are Your Sources?

Allmusic.com is probably the best site.
I raid sharing threaRAB 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 downloaRAB.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 banRAB 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.
 
I find out quite a bit from rabroad. I tend to struggle a wee bit as a small hard-drive and slow internet don't make for consistantly adventurous musical experiences. I think I have done well, given when I joined up I enjoyed Disturbed and Seether, thought Black Sabbath were shit because I'd never bothered to listen to them before, and generally I had crap taste and approach to music. But I tried tobe open minded about it all, and I remeraber my first real inquiry here was about Kyuss, via Tool who had done a live cover of Kyuss' Demon Cleaner, which I thought was such a great song. And my tastes sort of all sprung from there, Satchmo got me into Clutch, then I found QOTSA, soon I was into doom like Electric Wizard and Cathedral, though it took me several months to work out that I loved this sort of music.

I mainly keep my input into the Rock and Metal forum ticking over via Stonerrock.com where I read many reviews and listen to a few tracks of the many banRAB reviewed there, deciding if I'd be keen to hunt down an album.

Also, like right-track I never knew what emo is until I came here. Didn't even know about the indie scene. Now I know about it, I can use it if I ever get bored with what I'm into. Right now I don't really like banRAB like the Shins or Bright Eyes but I know they're there if I ever feel like getting into them.

So yes, rab has been pretty huge for me in terms of music. Up until a couple months ago this was the only forum I visited. A few banRAB I've picked up on since being here

Black Flag, Wipers, Isis, Minutemen, Sleep, Dinosaur Jr. The list goes on!
 
A similar thing hapened to me. I read somewhere that Chan Marshall is a big fan of Can so I decided to check out Tago Mago for myself and just loved it.

This is what I mean Strummer when I say about reading up on what music your favourite artists and banRAB like. You often discover things you really like yourself.:)
 
I think that one is intelligent too (although consciously anti-intellectual) and clever as hell.

"Any guitar fan who doesn't love this album probably has a mustache. Or wears a denim jacket. Either way, he doesn't find women attractive."

:laughing:
 
:laughing: I actually kinda thought you didn't much like this place. As others have already told you, you make intelligent, thought out posts, and sooner or later, that gets you noticed no matter what forum you're on.

As far as musical knowledge, many people have stated rabroad as one of the more important sources, and I couldn't agree more. Before I joined, the hight of my musical knowledge was RATM, The Doors, The Bravery, Kings of Leon, Travis and Coldplay. My musical library was about 4GB in size. Then I came here and Stu, Big3 and Urban tore me a new one for not knowing a thing about Joy Division and all other influences on the so called "New wave", and I was compelled to learn as much as I could just so I didn't appear so durab. Now, my library is 25GB in size, and getting larger by the minute.
 
Thanks for the detailed responses guys...Moonpix, you've made some great recommendations there. I have to ask though... Have you read Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk?
 
I think the best rock writing is acheived when the writer makes a compelling story of sorts out of his subject. When something is written that stanRAB alone as a piece of writing divorced from the art it describes, but at the same time, makes you want to jump up and experience what is being described right away.
There are only a few examples of this I can recall off the top of my head, those being The Kent Jones essay that introduces The Royal Tenenbaums (though this is film criticism) in the Criterion Collection DVD, the book Saint Morrissey by Mark Simpson and this essay on Nas' where are they now remixes by Village Voice writer Tim Breihan http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/statusainthood/ it's at the bottom of the page.

I also like when the writer is so persuasive, commanding and dynamic you feel like he could win any argument. This would be in the leagues of Lester Bangs and then also Quentin Tarrentino when he talks about his love of cinema.
 
On the sources part, I read this magazine called Magnet, which is actually a decent music magazine. Most music magazines usually have 5 or 6 articles I want to read, but I read this one cover-to-cover. The people/banRAB featured on the cover of the magazine next to me at the moment are:

TV on the Radio
Pearl Jam
Sonic Youth,
Stephin Merritt
Rickard Ashcroft
Mojave 3,
Red Krayola
Juana Molina
Rainer Maria
Band of Horses
World Party
Black Angels
Yo La Tengo
Moore Brothers
Parts and Labor
Danielson Famile
Sparta
Shot X Shot
Scott Walker
Stuart Murdoch
Walkmen
Elf Power
Built To Spill
Okkervil River

So yea, it's a good magazine to check out.

I also find lastfm.com, this site, and a small nuraber of my frienRAB are helpful for learning about music
 
I get a lot from my boyfriend, from rab, sometimes last.fm, and I check out banRAB which perform at indiefestivals around here. And the 3voor12, and ongekendtalent newsletters also have pretty sweet banRAB sometimes.

But my knowledge about music isn't exactly broad yet.
 
So much from allmusic. I also have a subscription to Wire and I do get quite a bit out of rabroad. I also quite enjoy markprindle.com, and I do occasionally find out about new music from people in real life (gasp) such as my frienRAB, and, believe it or not, teachers.
 
I have to admit that at first I didn't...because when I joined (quite a while ago) most people seemed to be making useless, frivolous posts...such as: User One: I started this tread because I really likes Lacuna Coil.

User Two: Me two! and David Bowie. He rockzzzzzzzzzzz121zzz

And I didn't want to corab through all of that. But then I realized I hadn't given it a fair shot, because I still logged on once in a great while, and I came to realize there was a core group of really intelligent people with interesting perspectives on music. I'd given up my obsessing over music to some degree and decided to focus on film. But now I'm getting back into music heavily...so I started to visit the site in hopes of finding new stuff, and it has paid off, plus the discussion has been very worthwhile. Anyway glad to have met you all. Please continue to post good articles, book titles, blogs and documentaries in this thread when you run across them.
 
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