message boards, newsgroups, articles & blogs

Prefix: As a journalist (in this case of music), there is an importance not to rely on mainstream sites for information and more importantly your sources. I have spent a long time searching for links to post on here, below are a selection of the best. Some sites I found were inactive or in desperate need of updating, therefore I filtered these out.


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This is a great website for intellectual articles; this link in particular is a great piece on the future of Indie - http://www.melancholyrhino.com/so.html

However what it also highlights is the problem in obtaining sources, there isn't even a by-line.

I will separately post articles as I find them in the future; they are hard to come across!

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Encountered this accidentally but found it intriguing! http://www.moremusic.co.uk/links/uk_res.htm#ng - It's a directory where you can subscribe to newsgroups, and somewhat unusually to trade Indie records.

[There doesn't seem to be many newsgroups relating to this genre of music, besides from the one above all the others were from the U.S., therefore I decided not to post those here.]

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An appealing blog that champions new bands and contains terrifically independent reviews: http://www.indie-mp3.co.uk/ - would be a very reliable source.


Finally this is a blog directory where I found a range of examples: http://www.britblog.com/directory/interest/indie+music.html

From here the best was: http://featherboa.blogspot.com/

Why? - It looked good; is very clean and crisp. Writing style is quite informal yet not too chatty. This is why I read the guy's comments more thoroughly (especially on Indie music.) Also contains a great list of links, including those to similar blogs-something that make a good blog great. Would be another good source of information.

The worst: http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/

Why? - Simply too cluttered and not a pleasure to read. The content is good, but paragraphs would be nice. It just shows how online, looks are everything.