Favorite music resources?

[Josh]

Just curious... anybody have any favorite music critics/magazines/sites that are pretty reliable? I find it hard to find the right mixture of smart writing and opinions that I agree with, but my three favorite critics are:

David Martin and Andree Farias (TRB)
Jeffrey Overstreet (Looking Closer)

Rolling Stone has a lot of great writers, but not a lot of great critics. The Phantom Tollbooth isn't what it used to be. Relevant Magazine is hit and miss, as they are in everything else.

[bloop]

I agree with you on Andree Farias...not so sure about that David guy.  I mean, a good review for a Linkin Park album AND putting the tepid remix effort "Reanimation" high on a top of the year list.  Oh well, I hear he's pretty good at math, so he can't be all bad.   =D

I like a few of the reviewers over at www.pitchforkmedia.com, even though they tend toward elitist jackass (hey, so do I sometimes).

I like David Fricke at Rolling Stone.  He seems to be their reviewer that listens to the albums before reviewing them.  He's also good writing articles.

I'm a pretty good critic for myself, but not for anyone else really.

[Escuchame]

You guys shouldn't heap so much superfluous praise on that Andree dude.  He's just alright.  Sometimes he doesn't know what he's talking about.

I like Brent DiCrescenzo and Chris Ott from Pitchfork quite a bit.  There's this one guy that does hip-hop there that's pretty good, too (I forget his name).  Matt LeMay has his moments.

Hey, bloop... if I were to start a music website and sent you CDs for free, would you review them?  That Linkin Park-review-that-started-pretty-good but-then-deflated-after-a-couple-of-paragraphs that you posted over at CMC showed a lot of promise.

[Josh]

Oh, and Russ at Christianity Today is excellent as well.

[bloop]

Hey, bloop... if I were to start a music website and sent you CDs for free, would you review them?  That Linkin Park-review-that-started-pretty-good but-then-deflated-after-a-couple-of-paragraphs that you posted over at CMC showed a lot of promise.

Would I get paid?  haha.

Hey!  It didn't deflate.   :angry:   I just got tired of hearing myself, and didn't want to repeat my thoughts on the album over and over again, which would happen with a record that repeats itself almost throughout.   =)

In all seriousness, I'm not too interested in being a critic right now, but I'll take those CDs.    

[Josh]

Andree, was that purely hypothetical, or are you really starting your own publication? WHAT'S THE MATTER? THE BASE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, PUNK?

I wasted the best half a year of my life on you...