music blog

Online album coverage

A music blog is a website where writers post about music—reviewing albums, announcing releases, sharing discoveries, interviewing artists, or tracking trends in particular genres.

Music blogs were especially influential in the mid-2000s for breaking independent artists before streaming platforms changed how people discovered new music: I found out about them through a music blog before they got big.

Related
  • playlistArranged media collection
  • reviewCritical written assessment
  • indieProduced outside majors
  • streamingReal-time digital delivery
  • albumUnified collection of recordings

deep cuts · discovery · underground · hidden gems · curator · staff picks · mixtape · hipster · lo-fi beats · critic · genre · tracks · vinyl · lyrics · spotlight · emerging · editorial · artist

Categories
Opposites
medium/format

music blogradio station

Facility transmitting audio programming

vinyl record · music radio · music podcast · FM radio · music television

institutional scale

music blogRolling Stone

Music and culture periodical

Billboard · NME · Pitchfork

subject matter

music blogtech blog

Website reviewing electronics and software

political blog · sports blog · food blog · fashion blog · news blog

Family

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G