Category Critiquing the Critics

During the first decade of the 2000s, this website was a minor, unremarkable part of the “web reviewing community”, where people reviewed albums as a hobby. Here I revisit another of my favourite sites. Like Wilson & Alroy’s Record Reviews,…

During the first decade of the 2000s, this website was a minor, unremarkable part of the “web reviewing community”, where people reviewed albums as a hobby. Here I revisit another of my favourite sites. Between 1999 and 2006, “Cosmic” Ben…

During the first decade of the 2000s, this website was a minor, unremarkable part of the “web reviewing community”, where people reviewed albums as a hobby. Here I revisit another of my favourite sites. Steve Knowlton is a witty writer,…

When I first gained access to the internet, the first information I sought out was record reviews. Before that, I’d been working blind, buying albums based on radio hits. While I rarely look at it now, the All Music Guide was…

Years ago, in the infancy of the mainstream internet, I used to be interested in the goings on over at the F***YouCrew. Essentially the F***YouCrew was a live journal community of musical elitists. To join the community, you needed to…

Between 1996 and 2011, Mark Prindle wrote thousands of album reviews for his website, www.markprindle.com. His reviews were often focused just as much on humour as they were on music, as his stream of consciousness style was over the top…

Piero Scarrufi has run an internet site since the 1980s, covering not only music, but travel, film, politics, and pretty much everything else. He’s a fascinating character, and he’s created an alternative canon of challenging albums from outside the mainstream…